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Reported geography
Source-reported location for TeraWulf Morgantown Generating Station AI Campus.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- TeraWulf
- Address and locality
- Charles County · Maryland
- Official metro area
- Outside an official metropolitan boundary
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 1,000 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 10 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-001442
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
- Dominion Energy Virginia
- Power source
- Mixed
- On-site generation
- 500 MW (source-reported)
- Land area
- 250 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Community response
- Provider label: contested
- AI-use label (provider)
- likely
- Announced
- February 2026
Provider notes
Energy. Former coal-fired plant (closed 2022) on PJM grid near Potomac River. TeraWulf plans 500 MW initial generation expansion; ultimate target 1 GW of on-site power to support 1 GW data center load while remaining net-positive energy supplier.
Community. Charles County Planning Commission voted to recommend denial of ZTA in March 2026 and again in June 2026 public hearing (four hours of resident testimony). Charles County Against Data Centers Coalition active. County has no explicit data center zoning; commissioners voted 3-2 to send proposed ZTA back to planning board.
What the source record says
Morgantown Generating Station is on the Potomac River near the Governor Harry W. Nice Memorial Bridge, Charles County MD. Acquisition funding and TeraWulf financial stability questioned by Maryland Office of People's Counsel (net losses $660M+ in 2025, 90% revenue from Bitcoin mining). Coordinates approximate. TeraWulf sought about $100M in Maryland state funds toward the Morgantown acquisition; the purchase price is withheld from FERC as confidential (FOIA Exemption 4), which Public Citizen is petitioning to disclose. No cooling design, water-withdrawal figure, confirmed subsidy, or job count has been publicly disclosed for the proposed AI campus. Re-checked 2026-09-10: overall record status correctly remains PROPOSED. Material development since lastUpdated (2026-07-23): FERC ruled 2026-07-29 that the ownership transfer of Morgantown Generating Station to TeraWulf is consistent with the public interest, but the order explicitly does not authorize data-center construction, new/repowered generation, or interconnection changes -- so 'proposed' remains the correct enum. Purchase price was kept confidential by FERC order (no investmentUsd figure obtainable). No water/cooling or jobs figures found this run. [Applier note 2026-09-10: the finding proposed only location.city, which the enrichment intent schema deliberately does not accept (enrichment fills street and postalCode only and cannot change a facility's city). Converted to a notes-only finding so the substantive research lands; the proposed city change needs a maintainer hand-edit.]
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
TeraWulf announced acquisition of Morgantown Generating Station (250 buildable acres, ~210 MW current operational capacity) from existing owner. Acquisition pending FERC approval and third-party consents (expected Q2 or Q3 2026 closing). Zoning text amendment (ZTA) required. TeraWulf shifting from Bitcoin mining to AI/HPC data centers.
Sources and attribution
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- TeraWulf buys Maryland coal plant to fuel AI data centers · Technical.ly
- Charles County's Morgantown Plant Being Bought By Data Infrastructure Company · The BayNet
- TeraWulf Data Center, Charles County MD: Maryland Data Center Series, Pt. 1 · Nature Forward
- $100M in taxpayer money: Public Citizen demands TeraWulf reveal Morgantown deal · The BayNet
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID terawulf-morgantown-charles-county-md. 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-001442
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
- MD · Charles (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: TeraWulf
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: 250 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 1,000 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: Dominion Energy Virginia
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Mixed
Provider label.
- On-site generation: 500 MW (source-reported)
On-site figures often describe backup generators rather than primary supply; read the provider energy note.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Community response: Provider label: contested
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-10
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Cooling, water, PUE and WUE · 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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