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West Virginia Data Center Investment Tracker

West Virginia carries 4 named site commitments worth at least $12.0B in disclosed capital, set against 3 projects blocked, delayed or restricted, 1 of them in the courts, as of October 8, 2026.

Updated October 8, 2026 4 named sites 3 blocked, delayed or restricted 2 financing transactions 22 sources
West Virginia
WV
4 capital providers on record
Named sites
4
Site-level commitments the atlas records in West Virginia
Disclosed capital floor
$12.0B
Sum of sites with a stated dollar figure. Sites without one are listed, not counted
Disclosed capacity
2,620 MW
Sum of sites with a stated megawatt figure
Blocked, delayed or restricted
3
$4.0B of announced capital in those projects
Who is investing

Who is investing in data centers in West Virginia?

The largest disclosed commitments in West Virginia are Starwood Digital Ventures (Starwood Digital Ventures Mason County High Impact Data Center, $12.0B). Together the 4 named sites here carry a disclosed floor of $12.0B; sites with no dollar figure are listed but not counted.
Alphabet / Google 1 siteNscale 1 site
Named sites

Named data center sites in West Virginia

Each row is one site-level commitment with its capital provider, the figure the source states, and the status the source gives it. Capital is shown as one compact figure; the verbatim wording is in the row's sources.

SiteCapital providerPlaceCapitalMWStatusSources
Starwood Digital Ventures Mason County High Impact Data Center
Announced 3 September 2026
 Starwood Digital Ventures Mason County $12.0B 2,160 approved
Monarch Compute Campus (Nscale West Virginia campus)
Reported 26 August 2026; Form S-1 filed 18 September 2026
 Nscale
with Anthropic, NVIDIA
 Mason County n.a. 460 approved
Google Buffalo data center campus (Putnam County)
Land purchase and state High Impact approval announced 27 March 2026 (governor's office); Putnam County Commission resolution passed Tuesday 29 September 2026
 Alphabet / Google
with Putnam County Development Authority
 Buffalo, Putnam County n.a. n.a. announced
Silicon Foundry Warwood mixed-use data center
MOU approved Tuesday 15 September 2026
 Silicon Foundry Energy LLC Wheeling, Ohio County n.a. n.a. MOU approved
Capital at risk

Blocked, delayed or restricted in West Virginia

Every project in West Virginia on the atlas's capital-at-risk record: the action taken, who took it, and the announced capital affected. Restarts and reversals are recorded with the same weight as blocks.

ProjectDeveloperJurisdictionActionCapitalSources
Penzance Bedington campus
delayed Mar 20 2026
 Penzance Management Bedington, Berkeley County
Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced the $4B, 500+ acre Penzance data center near the Potomac River on Feb 26, 2026; more than 300 residents packed a March 20 county commission town hall raising transparency, water, drought, noise and light-pollution concerns amid new state law (HB 2014) stripping local zoning control.
 $4.0B
Fundamental Data Ridgeline Facility (Tucker County)
litigation Site control determination 13 August 2026; appeal dismissals reported 28 August 2026
 Fundamental Data West Virginia Intermediate Court of Appeals
The West Virginia Intermediate Court of Appeals dismissed two appeals by Tucker United, the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, Friends of Blackwater and the Sierra Club challenging the state air quality permits for the Fundamental Data project. The court ruled that the final permit appeal belongs before the state Supreme Court and that it lacked jurisdiction over the draft permit challenge, which it found moot. The groups said no court has yet heard the merits and they plan to refile. Separately, on 13 August 2026 the West Virginia Division of Air Quality determined that Fundamental Data held legal site control when its August 2025 air permit was issued, resolving a procedural challenge raised by community groups in July 2026.
 n.a.
Ridgeline gas, solar and data center complex
other Site-control determination 13 August 2026
 Fundamental Data LLC West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection
WVDEP Director Laura M. Crowder determined on 13 August 2026 that permit site control requirements are satisfied, clearing a contested question on air permit R13-3713; community appeals remain ongoing The Charleston Gazette-Mail identifies Laura Crowder as director of the WVDEP Division of Air Quality, not WVDEP director; her 13 August 2026 letter accepted a largely redacted July 2024 purchase and sale agreement for about 291 acres, submitted 11 August 2026, as meeting the site-control requirement.
 n.a.
Financing

Financing transactions tied to West Virginia sites

Transactions the atlas ties to a named site in West Virginia: joint ventures, project bonds, credit facilities, leases and power agreements. Amounts are as stated; overlapping commitments are never summed.

PartiesInstrumentAmountDateSiteSources
Anthropic + Nscale + NVIDIA
Nscale's Form S-1 states that on 25 August 2026 it entered into a series of GPU Services Agreements with Anthropic PBC to provide dedicated GPU infrastructure services at its Monarch Compute Campus in Mason County, West Virginia, supporting NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 GPUs, with aggregate payments of up to approximately $44.6 billion. Press reports in August 2026 described the deal as about $45 billion over six years for roughly 460 MW, with systems expected to begin coming online in late 2027
 lease ~$44.6B Agreements entered 25 August 2026; disclosed in Nscale Form S-1 filed 18 September 2026 Monarch Compute Campus (Nscale West Virginia campus)
Nscale + Goldman Sachs
Nscale Ltd filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the SEC on 18 September 2026 for an initial public offering of ordinary shares, to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol NSCL, with Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley reported as lead bookrunners. The filing describes the Monarch Compute Campus in Mason County, West Virginia (acquired with American Intelligence & Power Corporation in March 2026) as an approximately 2,250-acre site able to deliver up to 8 GW of gross behind-the-meter power, with up to 2 GW of gross generation expected by the first half of 2028. Earlier, Bloomberg reported on 21 August 2026 that Nscale was preparing a US IPO of as much as $3 billion. The Form S-1 cover names Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley as lead bookrunners; the filing fee exhibit uses a $100 million maximum aggregate offering price solely to calculate the registration fee, so the $3 billion size remains a press report.
 proposed initial public offering ~$3.0B Form S-1 filed publicly 18 September 2026; offering size and price range blank in the filing Monarch Compute Campus (Nscale West Virginia campus)
Policy context

What governs a data center in West Virginia

The policy layer for West Virginia lives in three companion references: the West Virginia Data Center Moratorium Tracker for every state measure and local moratorium on record, the Water Tracker for the water rules that touch a site, and the Grid Operator Watchlist for the large-load rules of the RTO or utility that decides whether it can energize.

Next door

States next door

Ohio
24 sites · $47.3B disclosed
80 blocked, delayed or restricted
Virginia
33 sites · $213B disclosed
50 blocked, delayed or restricted
Pennsylvania
16 sites · $30.5B disclosed
42 blocked, delayed or restricted
Kentucky
6 sites · $110B disclosed
26 blocked, delayed or restricted
Maryland
1 site
22 blocked, delayed or restricted
On the map

Data centers in West Virginia

The US Data Center Map identifies 5 facilities run by 3 operators in West Virginia, each one placed from primary sources and listed by city and by operator, with this atlas record beside it.

West Virginia data centers
5 facilities · 3 operators
Map, locations, operators, rules
West Virginia power and local economy
Generation, utilities and county records
Explore the power supply chain and local conditions behind the build-out
US Data Center Map
Every state, one page each
The national map and the operator directory
Sources

Sources for West Virginia

Every source cited on this page, once each. The full atlas source register is at Capital Atlas sources.

Every state, one page each

Alabama 9 / 21Alaska 1 / 1Arizona 11 / 11Arkansas 2 / 8California 10 / 35Colorado 6 / 21Connecticut 0 / 6Delaware 0 / 5Florida 0 / 46Georgia 23 / 57Hawaii 0 / 0Idaho 2 / 2Illinois 10 / 35Indiana 14 / 44Iowa 3 / 22Kansas 5 / 19Kentucky 6 / 26Louisiana 7 / 3Maine 0 / 20Maryland 1 / 22Massachusetts 0 / 11Michigan 4 / 55Minnesota 3 / 31Mississippi 7 / 5Missouri 10 / 25Montana 1 / 10Nebraska 3 / 16Nevada 8 / 12New Hampshire 0 / 5New Jersey 4 / 61New Mexico 3 / 10New York 6 / 21North Carolina 10 / 45North Dakota 6 / 4Ohio 24 / 80Oklahoma 11 / 20Oregon 1 / 8Pennsylvania 16 / 42Rhode Island 0 / 5South Carolina 6 / 20South Dakota 1 / 6Tennessee 6 / 26Texas 106 / 35Utah 11 / 12Vermont 0 / 3Virginia 33 / 50Washington 9 / 22Washington, DC 0 / 0West Virginia 4 / 3Wisconsin 4 / 45Wyoming 11 / 5

Figures beside each state are named sites and blocked, delayed or restricted projects.

Part of the North American Data Center Capital Atlas, refreshed every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Announced commitments overlap one another and overlap reported capital expenditure, so this page shows disclosed floors and never adds them into a single deployment figure. Informational, not investment or legal advice.
The SAVRN reference set

Seven references, one system

Capital, delay, policy, water, grid, permits and scarcity are one system seen from seven sides. Each reference is primary-sourced, refreshed on a schedule, and links into the others, so a project can be followed from the money committed to the docket that stopped it.

Delay Watchlist
Project-level slippage: named projects, jurisdictional actions, utility and federal dockets, SEC disclosures, and the interconnection queue.
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Moratorium Tracker
The policy layer: every state measure and local moratorium mapped and cited, with one page per state.
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Water Tracker
Every federal, state, local and interstate water measure that touches a data center, plus a fifty-state water ledger.
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Grid Operator Watchlist
ERCOT, PJM, MISO, CAISO, SPP, NYISO, ISO-NE and FERC: the large-load rules, filings and queue positions that decide whether a site can energize.
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Permits and Power Development
Data center and substation permits, large loads in the interconnection queues, and the power plants planned to serve them, refreshed hourly from public records.
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SAVRN Scarcity Tracker
Eleven primary-sourced indicators of AI infrastructure scarcity, one composite index, read against the token index, SAVRN's own cost basis and the frontier ceiling.
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