The mayor of Gallatin, Tennessee, says a hyperscale Meta data center is the city’s largest taxpayer and has done a lot of charitable giving in the community. But two years into operation, residents in the northern Tennessee town still have concerns about its effect on utilities, the environment, and property values.

The Project Tamarack data center represents an estimated $12 billion investment for Starwood Digital Ventures.

Eighty-six megawatts of renewable energy will be sourced from a Kanawha County solar project and delivered to Google’s Putnam County data center via the energy grid.

The analysis predicts the total tax income from two of the data center projects currently under development at over $100 million annually, a fraction of the roughly $17 billion the companies will spend developing the data centers. 

Elon Musk’s xAI runs one of the nation’s largest data centers in Memphis. It’s powered by about 60 gas turbines that emit a loud, unsettling noise.

Anthropic, creator of Claude AI, has agreed to spend $45 billion over six years for computing capacity at the Monarch Compute Campus north of Point Pleasant. 

As data center proposals spring up in communities across Kentucky, residents want more answers about their would-be neighbors from developers and their own public officials.

PJM, the nation’s largest grid operator, has filed a new two-part proposal with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to help offset the soaring electrical demand from data centers.  

Opposition to hyperscale data centers is stoking bipartisanship in Kentucky, with Republicans and Democrats finding common cause in their resistance to local proposals.

The DEP requested the document at the end of July after receiving correspondence questioning Fundamental’s ownership and control of their proposed building site between the towns of Thomas and Davis.  

Residents across Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia have packed public meetings in recent months to speak out against data centers, with a recurring concern being how they could affect the cost of electricity.

Wednesday, Chairman and CEO Paul Prager told investors the company is looking to double the power of what it calls the Muskie Data Campus.

Data center development is a fast-growing industry, with projects popping up in seemingly every corner of the country. But that’s not been the case in West Virginia so far. Now, state officials are rolling out the red carpet for the expensive and increasingly expansive projects.

Silicon Foundation Energy says a three-phase plan will start with developing 10 megawatts of energy directly from the existing energy grid before expanding to a 100-megawatt regional compute hub

Google has created a website to provide information on the company’s plans to develop a data center near the Putnam County town of Buffalo.  

Earlier this week, Gov. Andy Beshear welcomed a proposal by TeraWulf to build a gigawatt data center at an industrial park west of Ashland. He cautioned, though, that any project of that scale would pay for 100% of its own electricity.

Across two days of interim meetings in Charleston, lawmakers learned more about what it will take to develop data centers in the Mountain State.   

West Virginia’s senior Sen. Shelley Moore Capito told reporters on Thursday that she favors data centers but wants them to do a better job of communicating with local communities.

The PSC scheduled four public comment hearings for June, and is still accepting written comments online and via mail.

The discussion aimed to help the public better understand local and statewide impacts of data centers. What became clear throughout the night is that local leaders and community members feel ignored by the development process in place.

The Stubblefield Institute at Shepherd University is hosting a panel discussion on the effects of data center development in West Virginia.

One of the biggest names in the tech world has acquired land in Putnam County for a data center project there.

The Institute for Energy Economic and Financial Analysis now estimates the cost of the project will be $960 million, almost double their previous estimates.  

An incorrectly listed data center permit deadline has kept Mason County citizens from having their voices heard.  

Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced the designation of the state’s first High Impact Intelligence Center in Berkeley County.

After the approval of microgrids to power data centers last year, the House of Delegates advanced a bundle of administrative rules Tuesday.

Thursday’s decision came following a two-day hearing held in December at the DEP headquarters in Charleston where the citizen groups argued for the release of all redacted information in the site’s air quality permit application.

Fidelis New Energy and 8090 Industries announced the Monarch Compute Campus development in Mason County. When it is fully operational, Monarch is expected to generate 8 gigawatts of power using natural gas. 

Gov. Patrick Morrisey laid out some of the state’s top accomplishments of 2025 -- and hinted at changes to come in the year ahead.

State regulators spent two days hearing evidence about the air quality permit for a microgrid facility in Tucker County that is expected to power a data center.

Residents in upper Canaan Valley say they want more information and more input regarding a microgrid energy project slated to be built just outside of their small town.