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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Monarch Compute Campus.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Nscale
- Address and locality
- Point Pleasant · Mason County · West Virginia
- Official metro area
- Outside an official metropolitan boundary
- Source-reported status
- under construction
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 2,000 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 15 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate (provider label: exact; the provider's own note describes an approximate location)
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001064
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Electric utility
- Appalachian Power (AEP)
- Power source
- On-site gas
- On-site generation
- 2,000 MW (source-reported)
- Cooling
- Closed-loop
- Land area
- 2,250 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced investment
- $20 billion
- Announced jobs
- 645 permanent · 4,375 construction
- Community response
- Provider label: contested
- AI-use label (provider)
- confirmed
- Announced
- March 2026
Provider notes
Energy. Caterpillar G3500 series natural gas generators; US's first state-certified AI microgrid scalable to 8 GW. Battery energy storage systems for AI load swing management. Carbon sequestration pursued. Generator deliveries scheduled September 2026 – August 2027.
Water. West Virginia Public Broadcasting reports "Nscale will use a closed-loop water system to minimize water use, and its power infrastructure costs will not be passed on to West Virginia ratepayers." Classified closed_loop on the recirculating-circuit rule; no evaporative assist or makeup-water volume has been published.
Community. 60+ Mason County residents attended March 17, 2026 meeting to organize opposition; concerns over noise, light, water, and CO2 pollution. Marshall University and Mountwest Community College workforce training partnership established.
What the source record says
Nscale backed by $2B NVIDIA investment. Microsoft LOI covers 430,000 Vera Rubin NVL72 GPUs in multi-year framework agreement. 8 GW ceiling for full site; capacityMw.planned reflects 2028 phase target of 2 GW. Acquired from AIPCorp (Fidelis New Energy / 8090 Industries). Coordinates are approximate for north of Point Pleasant, Mason County. subsidies: no PILOT or county tax-abatement agreement was found in any source fetched this session; the project is instead reported as making community donations ($450,000 combined to Mason County Sheriff's Dept, EMS and the Economic Development Authority in April 2026; $500,000 to Mason County Schools reported August 2026) rather than receiving incentives. address: could not resolve a precise street address. Multiple sources place the site 'north of Point Pleasant along WV-62 near Camp Conley' in Mason County, but no source gives a house number or parcel ID, so location.street is left unfilled rather than approximated from a road name.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2026-03 · source-reported proposed
Nscale acquired AIPCorp and 2,250-acre Monarch Compute Campus north of Point Pleasant; Microsoft letter of intent for 1.35 GW (430,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 GPUs) announced at NVIDIA GTC 2026 March 16. First phase (2 GW power) target H1 2028.
- 2026-09 · source-reported under construction
State high-impact data center certification (under HB 2014) announced 2026-09-03 alongside confirmation that construction is already underway at the site.
Sources and attribution
These sources are listed for the whole row. Unless a figure links to its own source, the provider does not mark which one gave it, so a figure may not appear in every source.
- Nscale and Microsoft Announce Collaboration with NVIDIA and Caterpillar to Deliver 1.35GW NVIDIA Vera Rubin at WV AI Factory Campus · Nscale
- Nscale acquires 8GW Monarch Compute Campus; Microsoft signs on for 1.35GW · Data Center Dynamics
- Mason County residents meet to discuss plans to fight data center · WV Gazette-Mail
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD
- Morrisey hails state certifications for two Mason County data center projects · WV Gazette-Mail
- Construction weeks away, Mason County data center operational in early 2027, builder says · WV Gazette-Mail
- West Virginia certifies two data centers in Mason County — Monarch phase one "approximately 2 gigawatts of power", expansion "to 8 gigawatts or more" · The Herald-Dispatch
- Second Certified Data Center Announced For Mason County — "Nscale will use a closed-loop water system to minimize water use" · West Virginia Public Broadcasting
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID nscale-monarch-mason-county-wv. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
Compute Atlas 1.34.1 with retained prior rows and publication holds. This is a DataCenterData composite, not an unmodified publisher edition. This row uses the captured source from 1.34.1, source as of 2026-10-14T20:40:52.293Z.
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-001064
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
- AI-use label (provider): confirmed
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Point Pleasant, WV · Mason (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Nscale
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported under construction
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: March 2026
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2026-03 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2026-09 · source-reported under construction
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 2,250 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 2,000 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: Appalachian Power (AEP)
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: On-site gas
Provider label.
- On-site generation: 2,000 MW (source-reported)
On-site figures often describe backup generators rather than primary supply; read the provider energy note.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Closed-loop
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $20 billion
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Announced jobs: 645 permanent · 4,375 construction
Announced figures; whether they cover one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Community response: Provider label: contested
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-15
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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