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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Penzance Management
- Address and locality
- Berkeley County · West Virginia
- Lifecycle status
- reported proposed
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 600 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 15 September 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001115
What the source record says
Falling Waters District, Berkeley County WV eastern panhandle — adjacent to Maryland border. 1.9 million sq ft at full buildout. Penzance (DC/NoVA developer) is also developing a Fairfax County VA campus reportedly pre-leased to Amazon. Coordinates approximate for Falling Waters area. Re-checked 2026-09-10: status unchanged (proposed). Most recent coverage found (wvgazettemail article, published 2026-02-28, updated 2026-09-04) reports no groundbreaking, permit, or construction start yet; a tenant announcement was still described as pending later in 2026. address remains unresolved: checked governor.wv.gov, WV Division of Economic Development, SEDC, and county/trade press coverage — all describe only '548 acres in the Falling Waters District of Berkeley County' with no house number or parcel ID; Berkeley County GIS/assessor records were not reachable this session, so location.street is left unfilled rather than approximated. CONFIRMED ABSENCE (2026-09-10): the Governor's office states explicitly that no state funding was used for Bedington Campus. HB 2014's revenue-sharing formula (50% Personal Income Tax Reduction Fund / 30% host county / 10% all counties per capita / 5% Electric Grid Stabilization and Security Fund / 5% Economic Enhancement Grant Program) is a distribution of the taxes the facility itself will generate, not an incentive granted to the facility, so it is not recorded as a subsidy. No county-level PILOT or abatement agreement was found in sources checked this session (governor.wv.gov, WV DED, SEDC).
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
- 2026-02 · reported proposed
Announced February 26, 2026 by Governor Morrisey; designated West Virginia's first High Impact Intelligence Center (enabling bypass of certain local zoning constraints); site preparation underway as of March 2026. No state funding involved.
Sources and attribution
- Governor Morrisey Announces $4 Billion Private Investment in WV's First High Impact Intelligence Center · WV Office of the Governor
- D.C.-based real estate firm investing $4B for new data center development in Berkeley County, WV · West Virginia Watch
- Penzance targets 600MW data center campus in West Virginia · Data Center Dynamics
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD
- WV MetroNews — Public speaks out on data center planned for Falling Waters area
- $4 Billion Data Center Campus Planned for Berkeley County — "up to 600 megawatts of critical IT capacity" · West Virginia Division of Economic Development
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID penzance-bedington-berkeley-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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