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Data centers in West Virginia: 12 projects mapped
West Virginia's counties cannot stop a data center: a 2025 state law, House Bill 2014, bars local governments from passing rules that would affect state-certified "high-impact" data centers and their private power plants. Nscale's Monarch campus is under construction in Point Pleasant, in Mason County, and in September the state certified a second Mason County project, Starwood Digital Ventures' $12 billion development. "They can put them where they want to. They can put as many as they want to. And we can't do anything," said Mason County Commission President Rick Handley.
Neighbors of the Monarch site have complained to commissioners about construction dust, low water pressure and flooding, and in July the state Department of Environmental Protection ordered the campus to repair its stormwater system. In Tucker County, Fundamental Data is planning what could grow into a 10,000-acre complex reaching into Grant County, with data centers, a gas power plant and diesel backup generators. A company engineer told a North Carolina city council in July that Fundamental Data "basically wrote" the state law, while the company has told state officials the plan is still "conceptual."
In Mingo County, New York developers propose a data center with 117 turbine engines at an old coal mine near Wharncliffe, where residents already face frequent water outages. Other proposals include Google's site at Buffalo in Putnam County and a QTS project near Kearneysville in Jefferson County. Gov. Patrick Morrisey's 20-year data center plan, released in August, promises local involvement and protection for power bills, but its water and power provisions do not have the force of law.
11 counties with tracked projects
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