A company proposing to build one of the world’s largest and most powerful data centers in rural Oldham County has shifted its plans due to local resistance, announcing Monday it would change locations and be significantly smaller.

Western Hospitality Partners announced in late March it planned to build a 2 million square-foot hyperscale data center complex of eight buildings using 600 megawatts of power on 267 acres of land zoned for agriculture. Data centers house computer servers that store and process data for things like cloud storage, streaming platforms and artificial intelligence. The company planned to invest $6 billion in its construction, which would make it the largest economic development project in the history of Kentucky.

This planned development drew stiff opposition from

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