West Virginia

June 4, 2026

Caterpillar secured a 2 GW commitment from American Intelligence & Power Corp. for the Monarch Compute Campus in West Virginia using Cat G3516 sets with seven-second ramp

May 15, 2026

Microsoft's 8 GW Nscale microgrid in West Virginia starts 2027; its proposed 2.5 GW Chevron/Engine No. 1 deal anchors a Texas campus.

April 9, 2026

Microsoft separately signed a letter of intent for 1.4 GW of behind-the-meter gas in West Virginia.

April 6, 2026

Pennsylvania and West Virginia are the only PJM states currently exporting energy, with Virginia's 35% share of global hyperscale data centers drawing heavily on imports.

April 4, 2026

Nscale's acquisition of American Intelligence & Power Corporation puts a $14.6 billion, Nvidia-backed company in control of power generation and compute delivery on a single platform, with an 8-GW runway at the Monarch Compute Campus in West Virginia and a 1.35-GW letter of intent from Microsoft.

March 3, 2026

Caterpillar locked in 2 GW of fast-response gas gensets for AIP's Monarch Compute Campus in West Virginia.

February 28, 2026

Penzance's contrasting experience is instructive: its $4B, 600 MW West Virginia project sailed through under HB 2014's "high-impact" datacenter law, while its Fredericksburg, Virginia project was twice rejected by the planning commission.

February 27, 2026

Form Energy CEO Mateo Jaramillo confirmed this is the company's first direct datacenter deployment, with its West Virginia factory targeting 500 MW annual production by 2028.