Paul Chambers🚧1d ago

2,080 acre hyperscale data center zoning map application submitted in Maysville-Mason County #Kentucky near the #OhioRiver in rural #Appalachia for “Cloud computing technologies.”

The site is in the Ohio River Watershed, along the boundary between the Lee Creek and Lawrence Creek
sub-watersheds.

The project, west of downtown Maysville, is near Slack Pike Road, Germantown Road and Valley Pike near 'D's Thirsty Beaver' which is located at 3538 Germantown Rd, Maysville, KY 41056.

This is the third hype-scale data center within 31 miles to be built. # 2, in the last image, at the former Stuart Coal power plant in Adams County, Manchester, Ohio, has already received federal approval. Another one is planned for the shuttered Killen Station in Rome, Ohio, just east of Manchester, Ohio, all on the Ohio River, in Adams County, also.

#DataCenter #News

The Maysville-Mason County Joint Planning Commission will host two days of public hearings on Wednesday, March 25, and Thursday, March 26 at 5:30 p.m. at the Maysville Community and Technical College Fields Auditorium.

https://maysville-online.com/news/214311/hyperscale-data-center-zoning-map-amendment-application-submitted

Data Center portal, City of Maysville-Mason County Joint Planning Commission:
https://www.cityofmaysvilleky.gov/departments/codes_department/data_center.php #Ohio #AppalachianOhio

Data Center zoning application: https://cms5.revize.com/revize/maysville/Document%20Center/Forms/New%20node/Planning%20&%20Zoning/Rezoning%20Application%20-%20Proposed%20Data%20Center%20in%20Mason%20County.pdf?t=202603121435580&t=202603121435580

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@paul

If you thing a 2 day AWS outage sucks, wait till you see flood in one of these data centers.

When I worked at #BlackBerry (remember them?) I was part of team which did a review of our data centers around the world for Disaster Recovery planning, 2011-2012 timeframe. The true planners had fits when they found out one of our data centers was 500m inside the 100 year flood plain of a river. Another, in Europe, was housed along side of a canal. The cost to move the first would have been $100Ms. The second got rebuilt to a safer place for quite a bit less. Neither were on this scale. Our environmental assessments were never completed.

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Show threadPaul Chambers🚧1d ago
@intothewestaway I think the selling point of these locations are easy access to the water but the Appalachian terrain puts the infrastructure itself above the 100 year flood plain, almost in the so-called "Biblical flood plain." Manchester/ Stuart, for example, is going to be built well above, same for the Maysville data center. If Ohio river flooding hits these data centers, Cincinnati and Louisville, well downstream, would be wiped out. Flash flooding would be the danger, as far a flooding goes. These hills are well known for bulldozing mountain flooding, though.