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Award: Data center planning and pre-construction services
Value: not revealed Total project value between 3 billion and 4 billion dollars.
Location: Hawesville, Kentucky
Customer: TeraWulf
Fluor advances in a Brownfield data center project in north central Kentucky, the company announced Monday.
The Irving, Texas-based contractor signed a limited notice to proceed on a 480-megawatt data center with TeraWulf, an Easton, Maryland-based developer of data center infrastructure. The agreement covers general planning and pre-construction services for the large-scale brownfield data center campus.
TeraWulf has plans invest between 3 billion and 4 billion dollars on campus to transform an aluminum smelter site, according to data from Cleanview, a data center monitoring platform. According to Cleanview, the company expects to complete the project in the second half of 2027.
In February, the developer announced that it had acquired the former industrial site in HawesvilleKentucky, with over 250 buildable acres and immediate access to 480 MW of existing energy availability. TeraWulf said in a Feb. 2 press release that the site is within 300 miles of several major metropolitan areas in the Midwest, offering low-latency connectivity and existing industrial infrastructure.
Fluor highlighted the win as part of its strategy to pursue data center construction.
“TeraWulf values Fluor’s ability to deliver quality and safety without sacrificing speed,” John Palmer, Fluor’s senior vice president of advanced technologies, said in the statement. “Our world-class data center team is ready to support this strategic project through disciplined, end-to-end project delivery.”
The limited notice to proceed allows Fluor to begin the initial engineering phase, according to the release. The contractor will recognize its share of the undisclosed contract value during the first quarter. According to the statement, the company’s North American data center execution center in Greenville, South Carolina, will take the lead on the project.
Fluor has identified data center construction as a key growth driver in recent earnings calls. This boom should eventually spread to infrastructure projects related to energy too, said CEO Jim Breuer.
For example, Breuer pointed to an increased outlook for nuclear projects during the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call. He added that he hopes this year’s new awards will be “much higher than in 2025.”
