Center Registry · Kentucky

Justified Data Campus

TeraWulf · Hawesville, Hancock County, Kentucky

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401 MW
Critical IT planned
0 MW
Energized today
2027-Q4
First power
MISO
Grid region · location approximate
In brief

What makes it notable.

  1. A brownfield redevelopment of the former Century Aluminum smelter on roughly 750 acres in Hawesville, Kentucky, reusing the inherited interconnect of about 482 MW.
  2. Big Rivers Electric supplies retail and MISO power, with Kenergy as the delivery cooperative, and 401 MW of critical IT is planned.
  3. TeraWulf handles facility operations and management, and Fluor is the EPC contractor for the three buildings. First power is targeted for the fourth quarter of 2027 and full buildout for the second quarter of 2028.
Deal anatomy

Six layers, and who holds each.

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Power
Big Rivers Electric Corporation, Kenergy Corp
Site and build
Fluor Enterprises, TeraWulf
Compute
Accelerator vendor undisclosed
Cloud operator
TeraWulf, Anthropic
Anchor tenant
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Capital
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Timeline

From here to full build.

  1. Nov 2026Today
  2. 2027-Q4First powerCB-1 ready for service
  3. 2028-Q2Full buildoutdeliveries begin late 2027 and conclude Q2 2028
The detail

Each party's role.

Power

Big Rivers Electric Corporation. Retail + MISO supply over the inherited ~482 MW smelter interconnect

Power

Kenergy Corp. Retail-delivery co-op (Big Rivers/MISO power)

Site and build

Fluor Enterprises. EPC contractor on a guaranteed-maximum-price basis for the three data center buildings (definitive agreement, Nov 2026)

Site and build

TeraWulf. Brownfield redevelopment of the former Century Aluminum smelter (~750 acres); direct-to-chip liquid cooling assumed, EPC/cooling partner not disclosed inferred

Compute

Accelerator vendor undisclosed. Not yet selected; Anthropic runs NVIDIA, Trainium and TPUs inferred

Cloud operator

TeraWulf. Data center facility operations and management

Cloud operator

Anthropic. Runs its own AI training and inference stack as the tenant workload

Related sites

Nearby in the buildout.

LiveLake MarinerTeraWulf · NY · 438 MW Under constructionCrusoe Warrenton CampusCrusoe · MO · 600 MW Under constructionDelta Forge 1Applied Digital · LA · 300 MW Under constructionLighthouse (Stargate Wisconsin)Vantage Data Centers · WI · 902 MW
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