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Mercer County rejects regulation to OK data centers adjacent to power plant (opens the original)
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HARRODSBURG â Mercer Fiscal Court rejected zoning regulations that would have allowed the siting of large data centers on land adjacent to a Kentucky Utilities coal-fired power plant. The unanimous vote Monday by county officials during a special meeting is the latest development in the rural community following months of contentious debate over whether the community should allow hyperscale data centers, and if so, where such data centers should be sited. Republican Mercer County Judge-Executi
Economists issue stark forecast of reduced state revenue growth (opens the original)
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A group of economists in charge of forecasting how much revenue Kentucky will bring in the next two fiscal years predicted a more pessimistic financial outlook in the coming years, citing a number of uncertainties in the economy. During a Tuesday meeting, the Consensus Forecasting Group, made up of economists from around the state, chose a more âpessimisticâ projection of future state revenues that will still see the stateâs General Fund grow over next two fiscal years. The groupâs proje
Data centers get varying responses across state (opens the original)
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Republican Louisville Metro Council member Anthony Piagentini interrupted a committee meeting last week because he wanted someone to stop the blaring noise he heard from the gallery. That blaring noise was the recorded sound of a data center coming from the phone from a member of the group No Data Center 502, according to group organizer Danielle Ray. The group has confronted city leaders at public events and meetings, including Mayor Craig Greenberg, in an effort to try to stop a planned hypers
What's been lost in move from tobacco in agriculture (opens the original)
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CLARK COUNTY â Kenneth Andersonâs father taught him what to look for in high-quality tobacco, cured for weeks in the rafters of a Clark County barn. How to âgradeâ or rate the quality of the different parts of the plant, looking for slight variations of the deep brown color of the dried leaves. âTobaccoâs always been a crop that you survived on,â Anderson said as he drove his truck over the rolling hills of his land on an early September morning. âTobacco paid the bills. It paid
EPA seeks more public comment on rule that affects Kentucky water protections (opens the original)
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The U.S Environmental Protection Agency is again seeking public comments on a proposal to redefine what waters receive federal environmental protections, a move that could also have a broad impact on state water protections in Kentucky. The Trump administration is allowing public comments until Oct. 9 on a âsupplementalâ rule to redefine federally protected Waters of the United States under the Clean Water Act. Itâs an action the EPA said would allow it to âevaluate a wider range of opti
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