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Data centers in Mingo County, West Virginia: 1 project mapped
Sheila Miller, 79, has lived her whole life along Left Fork Bens Creek in Mingo County; her well water is gone, and last winter her public water was out for days at a time. So when she learned that the old Twisted Gun Golf Course in Wharncliffe, a few miles from her home, is set to host a data center powered by its own gas plant, water was her first question. "We've had enough devastation from coal mining, from strip mining, from logging, from fracking," she told West Virginia Watch. "Our people are already sick."
The project, Adams Fork Energy, comes from New York-based TransGas Development Systems. It would pair two off-grid gas plants, run as microgrids, with two data centers: one at the Wharncliffe golf course and one near the Mingo-Logan line at the Harless Industrial Park in Holden. Air permit applications say each plant could generate more than 2,400 megawatts, and each would be allowed to emit up to 206 tons of carbon monoxide and 194 tons of nitrogen oxides a year. TransGas says the project would bring about 5,000 construction jobs and 300 permanent ones.
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Water for the Wharncliffe site would come from mine pools under the golf course, the same source residents wanted tapped to fix their own outages; the permits set no cap on how much TransGas can pump, and key details, including how it would capture more than 99% of carbon emissions, were redacted as proprietary. "Technically speaking, that's impossible," said Tyler Cannon of West Virginia Citizen Action Group.
The Department of Environmental Protection granted air permits for both power plants in October 2025. On December 3, ten Mingo County residents sued TransGas and three federal agencies, arguing the project needed environmental reviews it never received. On December 23 a federal judge denied their request to halt the project but has not ruled on a permanent injunction, so the case is still open.
West Virginia's 2025 data center law now bars counties from regulating certified projects like this one, leaving the federal lawsuit and the permits as residents' main remaining options. The water draw, the full emissions modeling and whether TransGas's related ammonia plant is still moving forward remain undisclosed.
Data center projects on record in Mingo County
Grouped by the town each site sits in. The report above may name projects that have no record here yet.
Wharncliffe1
| Project | Company | Status | Power | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adams Fork Wharncliffe Data CenterWharncliffe | TransGas Development Systems | Approved | 2,457 MW |
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