Clark County, Indiana

County ranked by announced AI data-center load

Undisclosed Announced AI load

Campuses

Lead operator

Key takeaways

Jeffersonville sits across the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky. Duke Energy Indiana's residential rate actually fell 9.8% (14.1 to 12.7 cents per kWh) between 2021 and 2023 on 796,265 in-state residential customers, the only rate cut in this batch.Source: data/cache/utility_rate_yoy.csv (Duke Energy Indiana LLC, IN)
Clark County has 122,800 residents on a median household income of $72,298 and a $212,400 median home value. 25.5% of adults hold a bachelor's degree, lifted slightly by the Louisville cross-river commute share.Source: Census ACS 2023 B01003, B19013, B25077, B15003 (Clark County, IN)
Property tax assessments rose 18.3% over three years, the second-steepest move in this batch after Montgomery, Alabama. That is happening before the announced Meta campus begins energizing load.Source: data/cache/property_tax_yoy.csv (FIPS 18019)
Median age in Clark is 39.8 against a 6.0% 3-year home-price move. The 24-point spread between flat home prices and a 18% tax-assessment jump is the largest mismatch in this batch.Source: Census ACS 2023 B01002 + data/cache/realestate_yoy.csv + data/cache/property_tax_yoy.csv (FIPS 18019)

Manufacturing accounts for 16.3% of Clark County jobs against a 3.8% unemployment rate. Jeffersonville is one of the tighter manufacturing labor markets in this batch, which means the Meta construction phase will compete for the same skilled trades the Ford and GE Appliances supplier base already books.Source: Census ACS 2023 C24050_001E, C24050_004E, B23025_002E, B23025_005E (Clark County, IN)
89.2% of Clark residents lived in the same house a year ago and only 3.0% moved in from out of state, despite the Louisville cross-river commute. The county absorbs the Meta build with a settled local base, not transient construction labor.Source: Census ACS 2023 B07001_001E, B07001_017E, B07001_065E (Clark County, IN)
7.0% of Clark residents are Black alone and 6.6% are Hispanic, the most diverse county in the Indiana AI group. The Louisville metro spillover is the structural reason Clark looks demographically less like Indiana and more like Kentucky.Source: Census ACS 2023 B02001_001E, B02001_003E, B03003_001E, B03003_003E (Clark County, IN)
Median gross rent in Clark is $1,058 against a 9.3% poverty rate, the lowest poverty rate in the Indiana group. The Meta campus joins a host county with the strongest household balance sheet of the three Indiana AI counties in this batch.Source: Census ACS 2023 B25064_001E, B17001_001E, B17001_002E (Clark County, IN)