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The Data Center Divide

Carter County

Pro-Data Center Policies

Kentucky offers qualifying data centers conditional tax breaks on equipment and investment, with lower investment thresholds in less-populated counties; participating cities may also offer local tax relief for up to five years. Eligibility requirements apply, and a 6% tax on website hosting and software access may raise operating costs.

Rating and summary from Kentucky statewide as there are no scored current or future laws outside temporary restrictions for Carter County.

Specific to Carter County only.

pending · County measure
Directs county officials to draft a proposed ordinance that would ban data centers in Carter County; the ordinance still needs approval.Carter County Fiscal Court proposed data-center ban ordinance (2026)

What this means

If enacted, the proposal would ban creating or establishing data centers anywhere in Carter County, blocking new facilities there (ban the creation or establishment of data centers within Carter County). The source does not say whether existing centers could keep operating or expand, but the ban on new centers is an outright restriction.

People behind it

  • Carter County magistrate who made the motion to draft an ordinance banning data centers in Carter County

  • Carter County magistrate who seconded the motion to draft the data-center ban ordinance

  • Government body that approved the motion to draft the ordinance and would need to approve it at a future meeting

Restrictions & requirementsHide restrictions & requirements1

  • A proposed countywide ban on creating or establishing data centers; the draft ordinance must undergo KACo legal review and receive approval from the fiscal court at a future meeting.

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