MORE STORIES: A closer look at the development of data centers across West Virginia
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Find a collection here of ÂÒÂ×ÄÚÉä Gazette-Mail stories on the details and development of — and the controversy that surrounds — data centers in West Virginia.
Gov. Patrick Morrisey and key leaders in the West Virginia Legislature have rolled out the welcome mat for data center development by stripping communities of local control that could provide zoning and other jurisdictional checks against data center buildout.
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Glenn Davis told West Virginia’s board of energy decision-makers he hadn’t touched his brake or steering wheel throughout the 5-hour drive he …
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Thursday marked one year since Gov. Patrick Morrisey signed into law House Bill 2014, the controversial legislation he requested, designed to …
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Developers of the proposed data center along W.Va. 62 north of Point Pleasant, Mason County, have submitted their application for a constructi…
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A judge who sparked conflict-of-interest concerns with his connections to a case pressed by community and environmental advocates to challenge…
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The number of data centers planned for Appalachia has at least one natural gas producer active in West Virginia’s Marcellus shale fields ready…
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WINFIELD — Putnam County residents spoke out against a proposed data center during Tuesday's Putnam County Commission meeting.
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Part of the 1,700 acres recently purchased by Google for a proposed data center campus in Buffalo, Putnam County, is the site of an 1862 Civil…
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POINT PLEASANT — The first phase of the Monarch Compute Campus north of Point Pleasant should be in operation early next year with 700 people …
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The West Virginia Department of Commerce has backtracked on its report to the Gazette-Mail Wednesday that it received an application for state…
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BUFFALO — Google has purchased property in Putnam County and received approval for a multibillion-dollar "High-Impact" development project, ac…
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Google applied to West Virginia to have the state certify a planned Putnam County project as a “High-Impact†data center exempt from a broad r…
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The official motto of the state of West Virginia may be “Mountaineers are Always Free.â€
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Setting aside deep concerns among West Virginians about the potential for adverse and unknown environmental impacts from data center developme…
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At a Friday news conference in ÂÒÂ×ÄÚÉä, Gov. Patrick Morrisey presented his administration as a force for clean water leading a state where…
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West Virginia’s decision-makers are further rolling out a welcome mat for data center developers.
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Data centers share critical information, but West Virginia legislators are moving to further shield their developers from having to share crit…
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Public outcry over West Virginia political leaders’ pursuit of data center development has reached a fever pitch in recent months, with reside…
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Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology-educated researchers estimate an expected data center operation in Tucker County …
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IRONTON, Ohio — Ironton City Council hosted a special meeting Thursday night for council members to ask questions about a new data center near…
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Editor's note: This report was supported by the Pulitzer Center and is part of a Gazette-Mail series on drinking water quality in West Virginia.
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HANGING ROCK, Ohio — A new industry is making its way into Lawrence County: AI infrastructure and data centers.
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Pete Hollis told West Virginia decisionmakers of artificial intelligence driving “an insatiable desire for power generation†that has “been ac…
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West Virginia officials are taking public comments on a planned rule supporting a highly controversial law the Legislature passed in April, pu…
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Morgan King felt she had to acknowledge something during a meeting her advocacy organization, West Virginia Citizen Action Group, held Wednesd…
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Community advocates are ratcheting up opposition to data center development throughout West Virginia as state leaders look to fast-track that …
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The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection persists on a path toward approving two air quality permit applications for as many d…
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Huntington is the center of a region that — within a 90-minute drive — could have as many as…
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect the West Virginia Department of Commer…
In a span of less than half an hour Thursday, the West Virginia House of Delegates made thre…
