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Monarch Compute Campus

Monarch Compute Campus is a tracked AI data center campus in West Virginia, Mingo. Acquired by nscale for US expansion per Wikipedia. Site is listed as coming online on the nscale data-centers page.

Announced · Nscale · Wharncliffe, Mingo, West Virginia, United States

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Capacity: announced vs energized

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Monarch Compute Campus capacity claims
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Key facts

announced

Lifecycle

0 GW

Energized

Nscale

Developer

United States

Location

Reported facts

Structured facts sourced from citations already on this record. Each fact traces to a source in the References section below.

Mason County scale / Phase 1 framing (primary Nscale)
Nscale's Monarch page places the campus in Mason County, West Virginia on more than 2,250 acres, describes Phase 1 as engineered to host 1.35 GW of AI computing capacity with delivery targeted by early 2028, and states a multi-phase expansion path to 8 GW+ with more than $20 billion in planned capital investment. Frame GW and dollar figures as developer-stated plans, not energized capacity (Nscale Monarch)
On-site AI microgrid / closed-loop cooling (primary Nscale)
Nscale says Monarch is the first-ever state-certified Artificial Intelligence (AI) Microgrid in the United States, developed with NVIDIA and Caterpillar, generates all of its own power on-site independent of the public grid, and cools with closed-loop systems that do not use municipal drinking water. Treat microgrid certification and water claims as operator statements (Nscale Monarch)
AIPCorp acquisition / Microsoft LOI (reported DCD)
Data Center Dynamics reported (Mar 17 2026) that Nscale agreed to acquire American Intelligence & Power Corporation including the up to 8 GW Monarch campus, and signed a letter of intent with Microsoft for 1.35 GW of AI compute on Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 GPUs in multiple tranches beginning late 2027. DCD notes LOIs are generally not legally binding. The same report says first-phase power of 2 GW is expected online by 2028 with Caterpillar G3500 gas gen-sets. Frame as reported deal and LOI terms, not a completed offtake (DCD, Mar 17 2026)

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In clusterMingo(5)·West Virginia(17)

The deal

developer
Nscale

Power

Interconnection

County water status: No drought in Mingo County, week of 2026-10-06 (US Drought Monitor). Data centers are large water users for cooling; this is the neutral local water picture.

Why here

Monarch Compute Campus is in West Virginia, Mingo. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

Regulatory paper trail

The filings and rules on record for this site and its jurisdiction, most recent first. Each is a sourced, dated artifact you can follow to the primary document.

NHTSA Recall: Zoox Robotaxi Software Update for Heavy Smoke Visibility (26E044)operational restriction · 2026-07-15 · United States
FCC Proposed Fines Against Drone Companies (July 2026)other · 2026-07-10 · United States

Sources

3bee5e2d-5a19-429a-aa8a-f7c0def619f5 · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.

Head-to-head

Monarch Compute Campus vs BT-owned UK sites →Monarch Compute Campus vs Nscale Loughton AI Campus →Monarch Compute Campus vs Stargate Norway →Monarch Compute Campus vs Narvik →Monarch Compute Campus vs Nscale Texas AI Campus →

Common questions

What is Monarch Compute Campus?
Monarch Compute Campus is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Wharncliffe. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.
Who is building Monarch Compute Campus?
Nscale is recorded as a party to Monarch Compute Campus on the DEPLOY registry. The full party list, with each role, is on the record.
Is Monarch Compute Campus operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, Monarch Compute Campus is announced but not yet built. DEPLOY tracks the lifecycle from announced through energized, so the current state reflects sourced evidence, not the original announcement.
How verified is the data on Monarch Compute Campus?
A human editor has reviewed this record for the indexed registry. Every capacity figure is an append-only, dated claim resolved to the highest-evidence tier; superseded claims are kept but excluded from the current view.

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Cite this page

DEPLOY. (2026). Monarch Compute Campus: AI data center campus record. Retrieved October 11, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/nscale-monarch-compute-campus

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