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.

1 published DataCenterData record · evidence status shown per row14 licensed directory leads · not independently verifiedWV

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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.

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Reported locations in West Virginia

14 licensed rows · 13 source localities · 4 map targets

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WVKearneysville area · 3 source localities · 4 licensed rows · opens the West Virginia interactive map3Buffalo area · 7 source localities · 7 licensed rows · opens the West Virginia interactive map7Ridgeline Data Center area · 2 source localities · 2 licensed rows · 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 group
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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 1.33.0, 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.

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.

Kearneysville 2Buffalo 1Holden 1Huntington 1Point Pleasant 1South Charleston 1Summit Point 1West Columbia 1Wharncliffe 1Wheeling 1White Hall 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 facility →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 facility →dcd-dir-000022
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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.

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 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 large load — 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 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

  • municipal planning assessor gis — 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 abatement 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 directories — Checked
    • No unlicensed directory listing was consulted for West Virginia.

    Selected records

  • historical closures withdrawals 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