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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Project Tamarack.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Starwood Digital Ventures
- Address and locality
- West Columbia · Mason County · West Virginia
- Official metro area
- Outside an official metropolitan boundary
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 2,160 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 22 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001369
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
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Closed-loop
- Announced investment
- $12 billion
- Announced jobs
- 300 permanent · 1,000 construction
- Community response
- Provider label: mixed
Provider notes
Energy. Reported to use existing Appalachian Power grid infrastructure rather than dedicated on-site generation, unlike the nearby Nscale/Monarch project.
Water. Developer describes a closed-loop cooling system intended to limit water consumption.
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What the source record says
Announced 2026-09-03 by Gov. Morrisey as a separate, distinct project from Nscale's Monarch Compute Campus (also Mason County, ~20 min drive south near Point Pleasant). Governor's office figure of 'approximately 2.16 gigawatts' converted directly to MW (2,160) -- exact stated figure, not a rounded estimate. Project details at projecttamarack.com (not independently fetched this run).
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
No status history was supplied in this edition.
Sources and attribution
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- Starwood Digital Ventures announces data center for Mason County · WDTV
- 'Total shocker': Residents react to second data center coming to Mason County · WSAZ
- West Virginia certifies two data centers in Mason County — Project Tamarack "roughly 2.16 gigawatts of power", "advanced cooling systems designed to limit water consumption" · The Herald-Dispatch
- Second Certified Data Center Announced For Mason County — Tamarack closed-loop cooling to minimize water use · West Virginia Public Broadcasting
- Morrisey announces $12 billion data center project in Mason County · WV MetroNews
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID starwood-tamarack-west-columbia-mason-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-001369
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.
Location and precision
- West Columbia, WV · Mason (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Starwood Digital Ventures
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.
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 2,160 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
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: $12 billion
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Announced jobs: 300 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: mixed
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-22
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Area, acreage and buildings · 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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