Dermody Properties is asking Louisville to allow it to convert a vacant warehouse it owns into a data center.(Dermody Properties / Louisville Metro Business Portal)Louisville officials received plans earlier this week for another large data center in the industrial area known as Rubbertown.The propo sal from real estate investment firm Dermody Properties is to turn a 350,000-square-foot warehouse it’s building at 3615 Kramers Lane into a data center. The company previously received approval to develop the 20-acre site as a distribution warehouse in May 2024, but the property remains vacant, according to a letter of explanation filed with Louisville city planners.“The revised Category 3 Development Plan …proposes to convert the existing building into a ‘telecommunications hotel’ facility,” the letter states, using a term for data centers currently in local law.The only changes to the design would be to “repurpose the tractor trailer loading dock area into equipment storage for generators, … the addition of an electrical substation” and adding perimeter fencing and guard shacks for security, the letter says.Dermody Properties, which owns the land under the shell company DPIF4 KY 6 KRAMERS, LLC, submitted its development plans to Louisville Metro on Monday, days before the Metro Council is expected to approve a moratorium on new data center construction until the city updates its regulations.Mayor Craig Greenberg told reporters during a press conference Wednesday morning that the city had received a new data center proposal, although he didn’t provide any specifics. Greenberg said he told his planning team “to hold on that application while Metro Council considers the proposed moratorium.”“My understanding from talking to several council members is that there is broad, bipartisan support for the ordinance as it is written and that no further changes are needed for it to reach my desk,” the mayor said.The Louisville Planning Commission is currently considering a set of new zoning rules, proposed by the Greenberg administration, that would ban data centers larger than 500,000 square feet and place a number of special restrictions on smaller developments.Many residents, however, have called for an outright ban on data center construction in Jefferson County.Attorney Nick Pregliasco, with the firm Bardenwerper, Talbott Roberts, is representing Dermody Properties in the proposed change of use case.Pregliasco directed an LPM News reporter Wednesday to Neal Driscoll, Midwest region partner at Dermody Properties. Driscoll did not immediately return a voicemail.The proposed data center along Kramers Lane would be right next to a hyperscale campus owned by Poe Companies and PowerHouse Data Centers that is already under construction. It’s also directly adjacent to the River Oaks Mobile Home Park.This would not be the first time Dermody Properties has been involved with data center construction. In 2024, the company sold multiple large properties in El Mirage, Arizona, to Microsoft to build a data center. They’re also constructing a large data center campus in Social Circle, Georgia, according to local news reports.The development plans submitted to Louisville Metro do not say which technology company would operate the facility, if the data center is approved. ...read more read less