West Virginia index · last changed 13 September 2026

West Virginia data centers: what the public record shows.

Selected source-linked records are published below. This is not a complete inventory of West Virginia data centers.

17 sourced policy records for West Virginia ↓Facility register: 20 records · by county →1 published DataCenterData record · evidence status shown per row14 licensed directory leads · not independently verifiedThese counts overlap and are not added together

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Map, listings and checked facts.

Start with 14 licensed source leads, then inspect the separate public-evidence layer below. Licensed rows are not independently verified and are not a statewide census.

West Virginia map

Reported locations in West Virginia

14 licensed rows · 13 source localities · 4 map targets

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WV4 licensed rows in the Kearneysville area · 3 source locality labels · opens the West Virginia interactive map47 licensed rows in the Buffalo area · 7 source locality labels · opens the West Virginia interactive map72 licensed rows in the White Hall area · 2 source locality labels · opens the West Virginia interactive map2Wheeling · 1 licensed row · approximate source coordinates
Source-reported points; some are approximate. Not parcel boundaries. Exact Approximate or representative Bounded nearby groupA number on a marker is the count of licensed rows it holds.Licensed layer only (Compute Atlas, source data through 14 October 2026). The interactive map lists 20 data-center source listings here across licensed, operator and DataCenterData layers (16 with a map point); 20 with government registry records. Source listings are not distinct sites.
Browse 4 mapped areas as links
Map sources and method

The state outline is adapted from the U.S. Census Bureau 2025 cartographic boundary file. Facility coordinates are adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Outline and markers use one geographic projection before any explicitly disclosed readability offset. Exact singleton source anchors are never moved. A one-kilometre boundary tolerance prevents the simplified 1:20,000,000 outline from hiding legitimate border-area source points; farther conflicts are disclosed, not clamped. DataCenterData groups source-reported city coordinates only within a bounded map radius; the outline does not validate a facility record. 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).

14 licensed rows11 reported city labels12 eligible organization labels
10source-reported proposed2source-reported operational2source-reported under construction

Browse all 14 rows below. Licensed rows are not independently verified and remain separate from the checked public-evidence layer.

Official metro areasWashington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV 179 mapped listings (all states, all layers)Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH 5 mapped listings (all states, all layers)Winchester, VA-WV 3 mapped listings (all states, all layers)Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV 2 mapped listings (all states, all layers)Charleston, WV 2 mapped listingsWheeling, WV-OH 1 mapped listing (all states, all layers)Morgantown, WV 1 mapped listing
Kearneysville 2Buffalo 1Holden 1Huntington 1Point Pleasant 1South Charleston 1Summit Point 1West Columbia 1Wharncliffe 1Wheeling 1White Hall 1
Counties in the facility registerBerkeley 3Cabell 1Jefferson 1Kanawha 1Logan 1Marion 1Mason 2Mingo 1Ohio 1Putnam 2Tucker 1
Alpha Technologies 2TransGas Development Systems 2Fundamental Data LLC 1Google 1Hog Lick Aggregates 1Internal Revenue Service 1Nscale 1Penzance Management 1
  1. Adams Fork Energy Campus Data Center (Harless Industrial Park, Holden)

    TransGas Development Systems

    Holden · Logan County · West Virginia

    source-reported proposedCapacity not statedSource updated 10 September 2026approximate location
    View lead →Facility record →dcd-dir-000021
  2. Adams Fork Energy Campus Data Center (Twisted Gun Golf Course, Wharncliffe)

    TransGas Development Systems

    Wharncliffe · Mingo County · West Virginia

    source-reported proposedCapacity not statedSource updated 13 September 2026approximate location
    View lead →Facility record →dcd-dir-000022
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Separate layer

Also listed by operators

Sites that operators list on their own websites and that are not rows in the licensed directory above. They are kept apart and never added to the licensed rows.

5 operator-listed sites (mixed units; not added to licensed rows) in West Virginia →

3 of these sites have no supported coordinate. The map does not invent a pin or a metro placement for them.

West Virginia evidence at a glance

A few checked sites

Selected public evidence, not a statewide census. Each row shows whether it is independently source-linked, attributed, or unresolved; licensed leads remain separate.

Published project / campus
1
Published facility / building
0
Attributed or unresolved rows
0
Licensed directory leads
14 not independently verified
Capacity boundary stated
0 of 1 published DataCenterData rows
Review timing
Audit through 12 September 2026 · next 12 March 2027
Known coverage gap

No certification document for any High Impact Intelligence Center or certified microgrid district was obtained, only the announcement that one was granted.

Browse all 14 West Virginia licensed leads → · Why these counts differ →

Projects

1 project record. Names are as they appear on each record page.

Projects published for West Virginia
Record / rolesStatusCapacity / scalePrimary evidence
Cumulus Group LLC Buffalo Data Center proposedproject UnknownNo independently supported figureThe application lists proposed emergency and auxiliary generators. Their ratings are generation equipment, not critical IT capacity, utility service, measured load or evidence of operation. No project-capacity figure is published. West Virginia DEP permit application R13-3782 — Cumulus Group LLC →Gov. record

Where the records were checked

Statewide audit pending

A few checked sites

This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.

Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.

State research audit window ended 12 September 2026. Individual records and claims below show their own evidence dates and may be newer.

Next scheduled coverage review: 12 March 2027.

1 independently source-linked project/campus record; 0 independently source-linked facility/building records; 0 attributed or unresolved rows. These counts use different units and must not be added together.

Source families checked, selected records and remaining gaps

These notes name selected records, say which kinds of public evidence were checked and show what remains missing. They do not add anything to the published counts.

  • Economic development incentives — Checked
    • No certification document for any High Impact Intelligence Center or certified microgrid district was obtained, only the announcement that one was granted.
    • The Governor's news index as rendered showed no Google, Monarch, Mason County or Putnam County item, so the state certifications reported for two Mason County projects were not read.

    Selected records

  • Utility commission and large-load records — Partly checked
    • No WVPSC case, order, tariff or electric service agreement was read, including the Mon Power Maidsville Energy Center docket in which a consultant is reported to have testified about data center cost allocation.
    • No certified microgrid district filing was reached.

    Selected records

  • Environmental and construction permits — Checked
    • The Adams Fork permits R13-3714 and R13-3715 and the Ridgeline air permit are not on the pending application list and their documents were not located; the DAQ public notice page carries only planning-section notices.
    • No issued permit, engineering evaluation or draft permit determination was retrieved for either data center application.
    • No water, stormwater or construction permit was searched for any West Virginia data center.

    Selected records

  • Local planning, assessor and map records — Partly checked
    • Berkeley County, Tucker County and Mason County websites did not respond; no county planning, zoning or assessor record was read for any West Virginia research lead.
    • No parcel identifier was obtained for any West Virginia research lead.
    • The Berkeley County approval reported for the QTS Kearneysville complex and the Jefferson County parcel status were not confirmed against county records.

    Selected records

  • Tax abatements and development agreements — Partly checked
    • No High Impact Intelligence Center certification document, microgrid district designation order or county agreement naming a West Virginia data center was read.
    • The property tax exoneration reported by the dataset for the Blacksville bitcoin mining site was not confirmed against a county commission record.

    Selected records

  • Operator disclosures — Partly checked
    • Nscale, Penzance, QTS, Fundamental Data and TransGas operator pages were not yet reviewed directly.
    • No hyperscaler location page was checked for a West Virginia site.

    Selected records

  • Open datasets and directories — Checked
    • No unlicensed directory listing was consulted for West Virginia.

    Selected records

  • Closures, withdrawals and former names — Partly checked
    • No archived or historical search was performed; the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy page documenting the Ridgeline land-ownership dispute and permit appeal was identified but not yet reviewed directly.
    • the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep before West Virginia, so no targeted search for withdrawn or denied West Virginia projects was possible.

    Selected records

  • News and other discovery — Partly checked
    • the current review did not include a broad discovery sweep before West Virginia, so news discovery relied entirely on the dataset extract's own source lists and none of those articles was retrieved.

    Selected records

Local evidence by place

Licensed and operator listings, reviewed records, answers and local policy for each place. Listings overlap and are not added; a place without a line here has no published local evidence.

No local evidence answer, reviewed record or local policy record is published for Holden, Huntington, Kearneysville, Point Pleasant, South Charleston, Summit Point, West Columbia, Wharncliffe, Wheeling, White Hall. Their listings above are source listings to investigate. No statewide evidence answer is published for West Virginia either; statewide rules are under Policy tracker below.

Policy tracker

West Virginia policy records

17 sourced records are associated with this state context. They are grouped below as current, pending and nonbinding, and history, and each card shows its relevant date. These are not facility counts and do not cover every locality.

Current 4 records

Recorded as in effect on the dataset date. This does not mean every project in a represented state is restricted or approved.

Enacted legislation or regulation

145 CSR 20: certification rule for microgrid districts and high impact data centers

In effect · West Virginia · State

Effective: 1 April 2026

Issuing authority: West Virginia Department of Commerce (Department of Economic Development)

West Virginia legislative rule 145 CSR 20 sets out how a petitioner applies to the Department of Commerce for certification of a microgrid district or certification as a high impact data center under the 2025 House Bill 2014 program.

Read the sourced record · Primary source

Enacted legislation or regulation

HB 4983 (2026) authorizes the 145 CSR 20 certification rule

In effect · West Virginia · State

Effective: 13 March 2026

Issuing authority: West Virginia Legislature

West Virginia House Bill 4983 of 2026 authorized the Department of Commerce rule that governs petitions for certification of a microgrid district or certification as a high impact data center (145 CSR 20), with one amendment adding "or access of water" to subsection 2.4 of the rule.

Read the sourced record · Primary source

Enacted legislation or regulation

HB 2014: certified microgrid and high impact data center program; local preemption

In effect · West Virginia · State

Effective: 11 July 2025

Issuing authority: West Virginia Legislature

West Virginia House Bill 2014 of 2025 created a Department of Commerce certification path for microgrid districts and high impact data centers and, for certified projects only, displaced county and municipal zoning, land-use, noise, lighting, building-permit and license requirements.

Read the sourced record · Primary source

Pending or nonbinding 1 record

Adopted measures with unverified effect, adopted future measures, open proceedings, proposals, drafts and nonbinding context stay separate from current rules.

Incentive or explicitly supportive policy

Responsible Data Center Development Plan (Commerce, August 2026)

Informational—not binding · West Virginia · State

Source document: 11 August 2026

Issuing authority: West Virginia Department of Commerce

On 11 August 2026 the West Virginia Department of Commerce published a Responsible Data Center Development Plan, addressed to the Governor, recommending seven principles for data center development under the 2025 House Bill 2014 program, and the Governor announced it the same day with legislative leaders.

Read the sourced record · Primary source

History 12 records

Expired, repealed, vetoed, failed, blocked, superseded and completed measures remain visible without being presented as current.

Federal and multistate

Federal and multistate instruments that cover all or part of West Virginia

These federal, reliability-organization and multistate grid or utility instruments are stored once and listed for every jurisdiction they name. They do not add to the record count, in-effect total or map shading for West Virginia. Territorial coverage does not establish that an instrument applies to any particular site, utility or project.

Reporting or resource-use requirement · Listed coverage: part of West Virginia

PJM: Large Load definition and registry accepted by FERC; capacity and curtailment rules rejected (ER26-3515)

In effect · PJM region (multistate) · Regional grid

Effective: 12 October 2026

Issuing authority: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

On 9 October 2026 the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission accepted, effective 12 October 2026, PJM's definition of a Large Load at a cumulative peak of 50 MW and a Large Load Registry that requires load-serving entities to report on the Large Loads they serve, which the order says covers all such loads regardless of in-service date.

Read the sourced record · Primary source

Open the West Virginia policy comparison

Review dates: the 17 West Virginia records were last checked 23 September 2026 to 3 November 2026. 3 scheduled reviews are overdue as of the tracker date 3 November 2026: Responsible Data Center Development Plan (Commerce, August 2026), HB 4983 (2026) authorizes the 145 CSR 20 certification rule, HB 2014: certified microgrid and high impact data center program; local preemption (last checked 23 September 2026, review due 23 October 2026). Overdue means not re-read yet, not changed. No single record, and not this list, establishes complete statewide policy coverage.