WV

Data Centers

Large-scale data center development, energy demand, and community impact.

County-by-county source verification is underway.

Overview

What this is

Data centers are large facilities that house computing equipment. Projects can involve major electricity demand, cooling systems, water use, new substations or transmission work, tax agreements, road improvements, zoning decisions, and utility or environmental review.

Why it matters

These projects can bring investment and jobs, but they can also affect electric infrastructure, water resources, land use, public finances, traffic, noise, and nearby communities. Residents deserve to know what is actually proposed, who is making decisions, what public support is involved, and which claims are confirmed by source records.

Latest developments

Dated, sourced entries only.

State law

HB 2014 changed who gets to say yes or no.

West Virginia's 2025 Power Generation and Consumption Act created certified microgrid and high-impact data-center programs. The enacted law expressly prohibits local jurisdictions from regulating certified microgrid districts and certified high-impact data centers, shifting major siting and regulatory authority to the state.

WVFC will track later rules, amendments, court decisions, agency actions, and legislative changes here so this explanation does not freeze in 2025.

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Live source check

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WVFC checks direct official state feeds first. Supplemental search and news discovery may surface additional leads, but an aggregator outage does not downgrade the official-source layer. Project markers remain verification-gated and are not created from headlines alone.

Statewide coverage

Recent West Virginia data-center news.

Headlines are a discovery layer, not verification. WVFC uses source documents and reviewed records before changing a project's status on the map.

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What is known / still unknown

Documented

  • 0 verified, published records
  • 0 counties with verified activity
  • 0 cited sources

Still being verified

WVFC tracks the items below. Counties without a verified record are unknown, not zero.

  • Documented project location, company or developer, and current status
  • Planning, zoning, permitting, utility, environmental, and regulatory review
  • Electricity, transmission, generation, water, sewer, road, and other infrastructure connections
  • Tax incentives, development agreements, public funding, and disclosed project costs
  • Public meetings, hearings, source documents, community reports, and verification dates

Who decides

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Connected records

Bills, projects, counties, maps, and community reports linked to this issue.

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Statewide data center tracker

Every documented project, site, microgrid, and power connection we can verify.

One statewide record of data centers, prospective sites, dedicated generation, and the utility and transmission work built to serve them. Verified project records become cards below the map. Government records and reporting we are still checking appear as clearly labeled evidence markers.

Headlines are a discovery layer, not verification. A story tells us where to look; a permit, order, filing, or certification tells us what is true.

Activity status
  • Active
  • Approved
  • Proposed
  • Under review
  • Paused
  • Ended
  • Status unclear
Evidence source
  • Jurisdiction-level, approximate placement

Dashed markers sit on an approximate county or municipality centroid and do not represent an exact location.

Project stages
  • AnnouncedPublicly announced, with no filed application or approval on the record yet.
  • ProposedAn application, filing, or request is pending before a public body.
  • CertifiedApproved, permitted, or certified by the body with authority over it.
  • Under constructionSite work or construction is documented as underway.
  • OperatingDocumented as running.
  • Power or infrastructure onlyGeneration, substation, transmission, water, or road work tied to data-center demand — not a data-center building itself.
  • Stage not yet verifiedThe record does not yet establish a stage.

Verified project records

0 verified records

Verification underway

No verified project records are published here yet.

We only add projects after the underlying record has been checked. Government filings and published reporting we are working through appear as labeled evidence markers on the map above, and this list fills in as each record clears review.

Compare what is happening across West Virginia

Same questions, county by county.

Pick a topic to line every verified project up against the same question. Where a record does not establish an answer yet, the comparison says so instead of filling the gap.

Power across West Virginia

How much power?

Electricity demand, generation, substations, and transmission built to serve it.

No verified project records are published here yet. We only add projects after the underlying record has been checked, so there is nothing to compare on this topic so far.

Community reports
Related help and resources
Community Resources

Verified help related to Data Centers.

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What you can do
  • Read the underlying planning, permit, utility, or development documents
  • Attend local hearings and public meetings before major decisions are final
  • Ask officials to identify infrastructure costs, incentives, water needs, and power commitments
  • Request records when project details or agreements are not publicly available
  • Submit a source-backed project update or missing public record to WVFC

Sources

No sources cited on this issue yet.

Individual records above carry their own source links.