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1. Article · Aug 6, 2026 · Liam Niemeyer Kentucky Lantern

   Data centers eyeing Kentucky’s idle industrial sites to get massive power (opens the original)

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   Paducah Mayor George Bray calls the former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in McCracken County the ideal site for a hyperscale data center. When the plant was enriching uranium, initially for the nation’s stockpile of nuclear weapons and then for nuclear power plant fuel, it had the ability to use over 3 gigawatts of power and used 26 million gallons of water a day. “When we enriched uranium there, all the infrastructure around that power is still available,” Bray said. “Plus, we’ve

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2. Article · Jul 15, 2026 · Liam Niemeyer Kentucky Lantern

   Local leaders support boosting black lung benefits; that consensus hasn’t emerged in Congress (opens the original)

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   For Ohio County Judge-Executive David Johnston, passing a resolution last year urging an increase in black lung disability benefits was a matter of principle. The last major coal mine in Ohio County, a part of the Western Kentucky Coal Field region, closed years ago. But he said the former miners who have coal workers’ pneumoconiosis, known commonly as black lung disease, still rely on the federal monthly black lung disability payments. The Republican county leader said his uncle died of bla

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