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Paducah AI Project Faces Federal Block | Lexington News
A controversial new bill could derail Kentucky’s biggest tech boom yet — a massive AI and high-performance computing campus in Paducah, set to transform a former uranium site into a national tech hub. Introduced by Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the legislation would ban AI data centers from federal land, threatening the project’s future and sparking a national debate over AI’s energy demands, environmental impact, and local costs. While Democrats push for regulation, Kentucky officials and Republicans see it as a golden opportunity for jobs and economic growth, even as final agreements remain pending…
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