This is a source-attributed discovery row. It can help you find a place and its citations; it is not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is distinct or currently operating.
Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Address and locality
- 22272 Charleston Road · Buffalo · Putnam County · West Virginia
- Lifecycle status
- reported proposed
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 15 September 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000740
What the source record says
1,700 acres both sides of Route 62, north end of Buffalo near the Kanawha River (address disclosed as 22272 Charleston Road). Announced March 2026; multibillion-dollar investment unspecified; still in early due diligence. Re-checked 2026-09-10: status unchanged (proposed). Most recent coverage found (wvgazettemail update dated 2026-09-03) still describes the site as an application under review, not a permitted or under-construction project. capacityMw and water/coolingType remain unconfirmed: Google's own spokesperson has not disclosed power or water figures for this site as of the 2026-09-03 update. jobs remains unfilled: officials cite only non-numeric 'thousands of construction jobs and hundreds of permanent roles,' no source gives integer counts. aiClassification declined: sources describe this as a general Google data center / cloud campus; none of the fetched sources specifically frame THIS site as AI-dedicated (vs. general cloud), so filling the enum would be a guess. subsidies: no facility-specific incentive/abatement program was found in any source fetched this session; HB 2014's tax-revenue split (majority to state, county keeps roughly 30%) is a distribution of taxes the facility generates, not a subsidy granted to the facility, so it is not recorded as a subsidy. Could not obtain a fetchable primary source (wvpress.org returned 403) that states explicitly whether Google applied for the Economic Development Project Fund, so no subsidies finding is asserted either way.
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
- 2026-03-27 · reported proposed
1,700 acres on both sides of Route 62, north end of Buffalo near the Kanawha River; approved as a High Impact Development Project but still in due diligence/early stage.
Sources and attribution
- Google announces plans for data center in Buffalo, W.Va. · WV MetroNews
- Google purchases land for potential data center in Putnam County · WSAZ
- Possible Google data center property location in Buffalo identified · Herald-Dispatch
- West Virginia GIS Technical Center -- WV Composite Geocoder (state PointAddress match for 22272 Charleston Rd, Buffalo, WV 25033)
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD
- Pack releases study on expected data center tax revenue · WV MetroNews
- Google — Buffalo, West Virginia data center project site · Google
- Google Launches Data Center Website For Putnam County Campus — plans to generate 100% of the electricity needed and treat 120% of the water needed · West Virginia Public Broadcasting
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID google-putnam-county-campus-wv. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
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