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
- TeraWulf
- Address and locality
- Charles County · Maryland
- Lifecycle status
- reported proposed
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 1,000 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 10 September 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001442
What the source record says
Morgantown Generating Station is on the Potomac River near the Governor Harry W. Nice Memorial Bridge, Charles County MD. Acquisition funding and TeraWulf financial stability questioned by Maryland Office of People's Counsel (net losses $660M+ in 2025, 90% revenue from Bitcoin mining). Coordinates approximate. TeraWulf sought about $100M in Maryland state funds toward the Morgantown acquisition; the purchase price is withheld from FERC as confidential (FOIA Exemption 4), which Public Citizen is petitioning to disclose. No cooling design, water-withdrawal figure, confirmed subsidy, or job count has been publicly disclosed for the proposed AI campus. Re-checked 2026-09-10: overall record status correctly remains PROPOSED. Material development since lastUpdated (2026-07-23): FERC ruled 2026-07-29 that the ownership transfer of Morgantown Generating Station to TeraWulf is consistent with the public interest, but the order explicitly does not authorize data-center construction, new/repowered generation, or interconnection changes -- so 'proposed' remains the correct enum. Purchase price was kept confidential by FERC order (no investmentUsd figure obtainable). No water/cooling or jobs figures found this run. [Applier note 2026-09-10: the finding proposed only location.city, which the enrichment intent schema deliberately does not accept (enrichment fills street and postalCode only and cannot change a facility's city). Converted to a notes-only finding so the substantive research lands; the proposed city change needs a maintainer hand-edit.]
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
TeraWulf announced acquisition of Morgantown Generating Station (250 buildable acres, ~210 MW current operational capacity) from existing owner. Acquisition pending FERC approval and third-party consents (expected Q2 or Q3 2026 closing). Zoning text amendment (ZTA) required. TeraWulf shifting from Bitcoin mining to AI/HPC data centers.
Sources and attribution
- TeraWulf buys Maryland coal plant to fuel AI data centers · Technical.ly
- Charles County's Morgantown Plant Being Bought By Data Infrastructure Company · The BayNet
- TeraWulf Data Center, Charles County MD: Maryland Data Center Series, Pt. 1 · Nature Forward
- $100M in taxpayer money: Public Citizen demands TeraWulf reveal Morgantown deal · The BayNet
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID terawulf-morgantown-charles-county-md. 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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