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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Nscale
- Address and locality
- Point Pleasant · Mason County · West Virginia
- Lifecycle status
- reported under construction
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 2,000 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 15 September 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001064
What the source record says
Nscale backed by $2B NVIDIA investment. Microsoft LOI covers 430,000 Vera Rubin NVL72 GPUs in multi-year framework agreement. 8 GW ceiling for full site; capacityMw.planned reflects 2028 phase target of 2 GW. Acquired from AIPCorp (Fidelis New Energy / 8090 Industries). Coordinates are approximate for north of Point Pleasant, Mason County. subsidies: no PILOT or county tax-abatement agreement was found in any source fetched this session; the project is instead reported as making community donations ($450,000 combined to Mason County Sheriff's Dept, EMS and the Economic Development Authority in April 2026; $500,000 to Mason County Schools reported August 2026) rather than receiving incentives. address: could not resolve a precise street address. Multiple sources place the site 'north of Point Pleasant along WV-62 near Camp Conley' in Mason County, but no source gives a house number or parcel ID, so location.street is left unfilled rather than approximated from a road name.
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 · reported proposed
Nscale acquired AIPCorp and 2,250-acre Monarch Compute Campus north of Point Pleasant; Microsoft letter of intent for 1.35 GW (430,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 GPUs) announced at NVIDIA GTC 2026 March 16. First phase (2 GW power) target H1 2028.
- 2026-09 · reported under construction
State high-impact data center certification (under HB 2014) announced 2026-09-03 alongside confirmation that construction is already underway at the site.
Sources and attribution
- Nscale and Microsoft Announce Collaboration with NVIDIA and Caterpillar to Deliver 1.35GW NVIDIA Vera Rubin at WV AI Factory Campus · Nscale
- Nscale acquires 8GW Monarch Compute Campus; Microsoft signs on for 1.35GW · Data Center Dynamics
- Mason County residents meet to discuss plans to fight data center · WV Gazette-Mail
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD
- Morrisey hails state certifications for two Mason County data center projects · WV Gazette-Mail
- Construction weeks away, Mason County data center operational in early 2027, builder says · WV Gazette-Mail
- West Virginia certifies two data centers in Mason County — Monarch phase one "approximately 2 gigawatts of power", expansion "to 8 gigawatts or more" · The Herald-Dispatch
- Second Certified Data Center Announced For Mason County — "Nscale will use a closed-loop water system to minimize water use" · West Virginia Public Broadcasting
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID nscale-monarch-mason-county-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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