Monarch Compute Campus

Project details

Capacity 6720 MW reported. Status planned. City Point Pleasant. County Mason. State WV. Grid .

Overview

Nscale describes the Monarch Compute Campus in Mason County, West Virginia, as a ground-up AI campus on more than 2,250 acres, the first state-certified AI microgrid in the United States, with Phase 1 engineered for 1.35 GW of AI compute by early 2028 and a published expansion path above 8 GW. Nscale lists more than $20 billion of planned capital, on-site generation with NVIDIA and Caterpillar so the campus does not draw from local utilities, closed-loop cooling that does not use municipal drinking water, and more than $80 million a year in West Virginia tax revenue including $40 million for Mason County schools. On 16 March 2026 Nscale announced it had acquired American Intelligence & Power Corporation, including Monarch, signed a letter of intent with Microsoft for up to 1.35 GW of NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 GPUs, and planned Caterpillar G3500 gas sets to reach 2 GW of generation in the first half of 2028, with compute tranches beginning in late 2027. The Charleston Gazette-Mail, covering Nscale’s DEP construction-permit filing, said first-phase Monarch is a 2.16 GW off-grid plant with 864 reciprocating engines plus 120 more engines for emergency, fire-water, and heating uses, three H-shaped buildings, four power nodes per hall, 72 generators per node at 2.5 MW each, and one hall on the former Mason County Airport runway, with site work already underway north of Point Pleasant on W.Va. 62. Adams Fork Harless Data Center Energy Campus is Mingo County’s mapped TransGas energy campus, not this Mason County Nscale park. Fundamental Ridgeline Data Center is Tucker County’s Fundamental Data pin, the third West Virginia campus on this directory.

The public map lists 2 map records. Reported campus capacity is 6,720 MW. All 2 buildings are planned.

Map records

Map entries are not a physical building count; campus and building scope may differ across sources.

• Monarch Compute Campus - Phase 2 | 6000 MW | planned | 38.908737, -82.10593
• Monarch Compute Campus - Building 1 | 720 MW | planned | 38.9105, -82.103

Sources

• Monarch Compute Campus — Nscale, retrieved 2026-09-01
• Nscale and Microsoft announce Monarch collaboration — Nscale, retrieved 2026-09-01
• Nscale acquires 8GW Monarch Compute Campus; Microsoft signs on — Data Center Dynamics, retrieved 2026-09-01
• Monarch data center to have three buildings and 984 generators — Charleston Gazette-Mail, retrieved 2026-09-01
• Powered Lands data center map