Meta has been named as the company behind a 3,000-acre data center project in Mason County, Kentucky, which will receive a 40-year tax break on property taxes.
Meta has been named as the company looking to develop almost 3,000 acres into a data center campus in Mason County.
According to a report from the *Ledger Independent*, Meta was identified during an October 13 Mason County Fiscal Court meeting, at which county commissioners passed a community benefits agreement.
Under the agreement, Meta will invest $10 billion in the project, with the potential for this to grow in future phases. The project will generate more than 4,000 construction jobs and 300 long-term roles once operational. Meta will also contribute $115 million to infrastructure improvements on roads, water treatment plants, and pipelines, and will make annual payments to the county in the millions of dollars per development phase.
In return, Meta has been awarded a 40-year tax break on local property taxes. The project will be supported by $800bn in Industrial Revenue Bonds (IRBs), with an estimated $10 billion per phase.
The plan to bring a massive data center campus to the area was first revealed in November 2025, when an anonymous developer was evaluating 5,000 acres of land near Big Pond and Tuckahoe roads.
In May of this year, a 2,080-acre parcel in the area was rezoned for data center use. Documents suggest that six data center buildings totaling 718,740 sq ft (66,773 sqm) and three substations would be built on the site. Power capacity could reach up to 2.2GW.
Local residents have voiced concerns about the project. At the time of writing, a petition against it had 1,429 signatures.
Meta said: "We're grateful to the Mason County fiscal court for its careful review. With this potential project, we'll not only pay the full cost of the power we use, but we'll invest directly in Mason County — in schools, workforce training and local infrastructure — guided by what local leaders and residents tell us they need. We take seriously the diversity of opinions in the county, and we intend to keep showing up and listening, not just during the approval process but in the long run."
Mason County Judge Executive Owen McNeill added: "This agreement with Meta represents the hard work of many dedicated individuals and organizations that envisioned a brighter future for Mason County and all of our residents. Meta represents the pinnacle of technology companies that only a few short years ago, we would have never dreamt would invest here. For our community, closer to the rural end of the spectrum than urban, their investments positively address just about every issue our communities are facing today and will greatly bolster them well into the future."