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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Bedington Campus.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Penzance Management
- Address and locality
- Berkeley County · West Virginia
- Official metro area
- Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 600 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-001115
The underlying provider record is retained. These notes add source-attributed context and flag conflicts; any withheld value is explained separately. They do not certify current operation.
- Source review · reviewed 2026-10-09: On February 26, 2026 the West Virginia governor announced approval of the High Impact Intelligence Center designation for the Penzance Bedington project. This identifies the designation milestone more precisely. It does not establish blanket permitting, construction, operation or microgrid certification.
- Office of the Governor of West Virginia — 2026-02-26 · source retrieved 2026-10-09
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
- Potomac Edison (FirstEnergy)
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Closed-loop
- Land area
- 548 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced investment
- $4 billion
- Announced jobs
- 125 permanent · 1,000 construction
- Community response
- Provider label: contested
- AI-use label (provider)
- likely
- Announced
- February 2026
Provider notes
Energy. Governor described project as 'likely' grid-connected via existing electric utilities
Water. Reclaimed water systems for cooling to reduce dependence on potable water
Community. 300+ residents packed a Spring Mills High School town hall (March 2026) over water, flooding, eminent-domain, and loss-of-local-zoning-control (HB 2014) concerns, backed by an organized 'No Data Centers in the Eastern Panhandle' Facebook group; no vote has been held yet.
What the source record says
Falling Waters District, Berkeley County WV eastern panhandle — adjacent to Maryland border. 1.9 million sq ft at full buildout. Penzance (DC/NoVA developer) is also developing a Fairfax County VA campus reportedly pre-leased to Amazon. Coordinates approximate for Falling Waters area. Re-checked 2026-09-10: status unchanged (proposed). Most recent coverage found (wvgazettemail article, published 2026-02-28, updated 2026-09-04) reports no groundbreaking, permit, or construction start yet; a tenant announcement was still described as pending later in 2026. address remains unresolved: checked governor.wv.gov, WV Division of Economic Development, SEDC, and county/trade press coverage — all describe only '548 acres in the Falling Waters District of Berkeley County' with no house number or parcel ID; Berkeley County GIS/assessor records were not reachable this session, so location.street is left unfilled rather than approximated. CONFIRMED ABSENCE (2026-09-10): the Governor's office states explicitly that no state funding was used for Bedington Campus. HB 2014's revenue-sharing formula (50% Personal Income Tax Reduction Fund / 30% host county / 10% all counties per capita / 5% Electric Grid Stabilization and Security Fund / 5% Economic Enhancement Grant Program) is a distribution of the taxes the facility itself will generate, not an incentive granted to the facility, so it is not recorded as a subsidy. No county-level PILOT or abatement agreement was found in sources checked this session (governor.wv.gov, WV DED, SEDC).
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
- 2026-02 · source-reported proposed
Announced February 26, 2026 by Governor Morrisey; designated West Virginia's first High Impact Intelligence Center (enabling bypass of certain local zoning constraints); site preparation underway as of March 2026. No state funding involved.
Sources and attribution
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- Governor Morrisey Announces $4 Billion Private Investment in WV's First High Impact Intelligence Center · WV Office of the Governor
- D.C.-based real estate firm investing $4B for new data center development in Berkeley County, WV · West Virginia Watch
- Penzance targets 600MW data center campus in West Virginia · Data Center Dynamics
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD
- WV MetroNews — Public speaks out on data center planned for Falling Waters area
- $4 Billion Data Center Campus Planned for Berkeley County — "up to 600 megawatts of critical IT capacity" · West Virginia Division of Economic Development
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID penzance-bedington-berkeley-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).
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-001115
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): likely
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- WV · Berkeley (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Penzance Management
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported proposed
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: February 2026
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2026-02 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 548 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 600 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: Potomac Edison (FirstEnergy)
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Closed-loop
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $4 billion
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Announced jobs: 125 permanent · 1,000 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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