West Virginia index · last changed 12 September 2026
West Virginia research coverage.
See the available records, draft source-family audit and remaining research gaps. A state page is not a complete inventory of its data centers.
Research coverage
Research draft available; independent coverage review pending
Research draft available. Candidate findings and statewide coverage await independent review.
Draft source attempts: 2026-09-12 through 2026-09-12. These are draft audit dates, not a new independent check.
0 reviewed project/campus records; 0 reviewed facility/building records; 0 uncounted records. Inventories are non-additive.
Draft source-family roster and gaps
- economic development incentives — searched
Source references: WV-S0001, WV-S0002, WV-S0003
- No certification document for any High Impact Intelligence Center or certified microgrid district was obtained, only the announcement that one was granted.
- The Governor's news index as rendered showed no Google, Monarch, Mason County or Putnam County item, so the state certifications reported for two Mason County projects were not read.
- utility commission large load — searched_partial
Source references: WV-S0004
- No WVPSC case, order, tariff or electric service agreement was read, including the Mon Power Maidsville Energy Center docket in which a consultant is reported to have testified about data center cost allocation.
- No certified microgrid district filing was reached.
- environmental construction permits — searched
Source references: WV-S0005, WV-S0006, WV-S0007, WV-S0008
- The Adams Fork permits R13-3714 and R13-3715 and the Ridgeline air permit are not on the pending application list and their documents were not located; the DAQ public notice page carries only planning-section notices.
- No issued permit, engineering evaluation or draft permit determination was retrieved for either data center application.
- No water, stormwater or construction permit was searched for any West Virginia data center.
- municipal planning assessor gis — searched_partial
Source references: WV-S0009
- Berkeley County, Tucker County and Mason County websites did not respond; no county planning, zoning or assessor record was read for any West Virginia candidate.
- No parcel identifier was obtained for any West Virginia candidate.
- The Berkeley County approval reported for the QTS Kearneysville complex and the Jefferson County parcel status were not confirmed against county records.
- tax abatement development agreements — searched_partial
Source references: WV-S0010
- No High Impact Intelligence Center certification document, microgrid district designation order or county agreement naming a West Virginia data center was read.
- The property tax exoneration reported by the dataset for the Blacksville bitcoin mining site was not confirmed against a county commission record.
- operator disclosures — searched_partial
Source references: WV-S0012
- Nscale, Penzance, QTS, Fundamental Data and TransGas operator pages were not opened.
- No hyperscaler location page was checked for a West Virginia site.
- open datasets directories — searched
Source references: WV-S0011
- No unlicensed directory listing was consulted for West Virginia.
- historical closures withdrawals names — searched_partial
Source references: WV-S0013
- No archived or historical search was performed; the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy page documenting the Ridgeline land-ownership dispute and permit appeal was identified but not opened.
- The session's web search budget was exhausted before West Virginia, so no targeted search for withdrawn or denied West Virginia projects was possible.
- news and other discovery — searched_partial
Source references: WV-S0014
- The session's web search budget was exhausted before West Virginia, so news discovery relied entirely on the dataset extract's own source lists and none of those articles was fetched.
No reviewed records published. This does not mean there are no data centers in this state.