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Recent West Virginia data center news

• Jul 24, 2026

  Episode for July 24, 2026

  The Allegheny Front has published an episode roundup covering several Pennsylvania environmental and infrastructure stories, including U.S. Steel’s mill modernization plans, AI tornado forecasting, a renewed solar schools program, and a crowdfunding challenge to a data center project.

  • U.S. Steel is described as investing big money to modernize a mill in the Pittsburgh area, with local reaction split between air pollution concerns and expected economic impact.
  • The episode also notes that Pennsylvania’s Solar for Schools program has been renewed for a third year and is funded at $25 million, covering 75% of school district solar installation costs; another segment says environmental groups are crowdfunding a legal challenge to the Homer City data center project tied to a gas-fired power plant.
• Jul 23, 2026

  White House Expands Data Center Ratepayer Pledge as Congress Moves to Codify Protections

  The White House expanded its voluntary Ratepayer Protection Pledge to 187 utilities, electric cooperatives, and data-center developers, while Congress advanced the bipartisan Ratepayer Protection Act from committee 52-0.

  • The White House said the pledge now covers 187 organizations plus 23 governors, and the coalition “protects” 263 million Americans; signatories commit to fund generation and grid upgrades for their data-center loads without shifting costs to other ratepayers.
  • The House Energy and Commerce Committee advanced H.R. 9340 on July 21; the bill would require state regulators and nonregulated utilities to consider a large-load standard for sites with at least 100 MW peak demand and recover the full incremental cost of grid upgrades. New York’s Executive Order 62 separately put permits for 50 MW+ data centers on hold pending an environmental review.
• Jul 22, 2026

  White House Warns PJM to Reform Grid Governance ‘Before It Is Too Late’

  The White House has warned PJM Interconnection to overhaul its governance and stakeholder process, while PJM says it is still on the administration’s previously announced timeline.

  • The White House spokesperson said PJM has failed to implement the bipartisan Statement of Principles provided in January and urged reforms to stakeholder process, board governance, and implementation “before it is too late.”
  • PJM said it has worked with the White House Energy Dominance Council and the 13-state region’s governors, completed its stakeholder process on backstop procurement, and expects the Board to act in very short order.
  • FERC is scheduled to hold a technical conference on PJM governance and stakeholder process, with remarks from Peter Lake of the White House’s National Energy Dominance Council.
  • The debate is tied to rising power demand from AI data centers, cloud providers, and other large industrial customers, with concerns about interconnection queues, transmission expansion, and capacity costs.
• Jul 17, 2026

  Episode for July 17, 2026

  The Allegheny Front has released a July 17, 2026 podcast episode summarizing several environmental and infrastructure stories in Pennsylvania and Ohio.

  • The episode notes a movement to slow down data center development in Pennsylvania, while state lawmakers were not ready to repeal a key tax exemption.
  • It also references gas processing facility expansion opposition in rural Pennsylvania, four injection wells in southeastern Ohio that were stopped at the request of state regulators, and forests in Allegheny and Fayette Counties being added to the Old-Growth Forest Network.
• Jul 14, 2026

  FBI considers deploying AI LLM supercomputers with Nvidia B300 GPUs or Google TPUs

  The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is considering acquiring AI supercomputer hardware through a request for information (RFI).

  • The FBI said it seeks information on AI computing products for LLM training, inference, advanced analytics, computer vision, and other secure government workloads.
  • The RFI outlines four hardware categories, including rack-scale AI systems, AI pod architectures, and AI inference accelerators; most deliveries would go to the CJIS Division facility in Clarksburg, West Virginia.
  • The document notes that RFIs are a precursor to procurement and do not guarantee purchase; the FBI could acquire equipment in varying quantities and configurations through delivery orders.
  • Category details include Intel Xeon 6767P or equivalent, HGX B300 eight-GPU assembly, GB300 NVL72-equivalent systems, Google TPU-equivalent architectures, and Nvidia L40-S-equivalent inference hardware.
• Jul 3, 2026

  Another Electric Super-Highway Proposed to Serve Data Centers

  Piedmont Environmental Council is issuing an alert about a proposed transmission line project and an open house, rather than announcing a new project itself.

  • Valley Link Transmission, a joint venture between Dominion Energy and two other utilities, has sent notices for the Amos-Rocky Point / “Valley North” project and is holding an open house on July 7, 2026 in Berryville, Virginia.
  • The proposed line would run 260 miles at 765 kV from the John Amos coal plant in West Virginia to the Rocky Point substation in Maryland; Valley Link also plans a 2027 SCC filing for a certificate of public convenience and necessity.
  • The article argues the project is driven by Dominion’s growing data center queue, which it says has reached 70 GW, and notes the project could require a 200-foot right-of-way and towers about 160 feet tall.
• Jun 29, 2026

  Details revealed for Google's Project Skye data center campus in Chesterfield County, Virginia

  Google has filed details of its planned “Project Skye” data center campus with the US Army Corps of Engineers.

  • Project details: The filing describes a campus on 887.7 acres (south of Genito Road, east of Moseley Road, north of Duval Road) proposing five data center buildings, three substations, plus parking, roads, utilities, and stormwater management facilities. The public notice is recorded as NAO-2026-00282 / VMRC-26-0360.
  • Context and timeline: Project Skye is part of Google’s broader $9 billion Virginia investment program announced in 2025; Google has had development activity in the Richmond/central-eastern Virginia area since 2017 and other local projects referenced include Project Loch, Project Peanut, a Sharpless Enterprises 181-acre campus approved in March 2024, and a land purchase in Botetourt County in June 2025.
• Jun 26, 2026

  Episode for June 26, 2026

  The Pennsylvania House has passed a data center ‘pause’ measure and both chambers approved repeal of the commonwealth’s sales tax break on computer equipment for data centers.

  • Main action: The Pennsylvania House and other lawmakers passed measures this week to slow data center development, including approval in both chambers to repeal the sales tax exemption on data center computer equipment and related bills tied to Governor Shapiro’s plan for “responsible” development. Brookville Borough Council separately passed a 180-day moratorium on data center development (a pause that lasts until roughly December) to give the council time to finalize local data center rules.
  • Other reporting and context: The roundup also reports that the Army Corps of Engineers‘ recent dam removal on the Monongahela River caused larger-than-expected water-level drops; researchers are trialing buoys that release an algaecide to fight harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie; environmental groups criticized recent Nippon Steel investments at U.S. Steel plants as “stopgap things to make U.S. Steel profitable in the short term”; and Pittsburgh restaurants are changing recycling, composting and waste systems. All items are presented as news summaries and local reporting rather than a single new joint announcement.
• Jun 25, 2026

  On the Ground Updates – June 2026

  The Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC) summarizes regional land-use and infrastructure updates across multiple Virginia counties, highlighting implementation of Albemarle’s AC44 Comprehensive Plan and monitoring of transmission, solar, and data-center proposals.

  • AC44 implementation (Albemarle County): PEC reports a three-year implementation of the AC44 Comprehensive Plan with four major initiatives: Zoning Modernization, designation of Activity Centers for higher-density development, creation of the county’s first Multimodal Transportation Plan, and a two-stage approach to the Rural Area leading to the county’s first Rural Area Plan.
  • Regional project updates and permitting actions: Strata Energy withdrew the Maroon Solar conditional use application in Culpeper (may reapply later); multiple data centers are under construction in Culpeper (including Databank and STACK Infrastructure’s Culpeper Technology Campus and Copper Ridge, expected to break ground this summer); Dominion Energy acquired 85 acres adjacent to its Morrisville substation (possible expansion or battery storage); FirstEnergy plans to file its application in June to rebuild the Page-Sperryville 138 kV line; Dominion posted routes for the 765 kV Joshua Falls–Yeat line with public meetings in June/July. PEC is monitoring all items and engaging in public outreach and planning processes.
• Jun 25, 2026

  Carolina West Wireless to Transfer Mobile Network to Verizon

  Carolina West Wireless has announced it will shut down its wireless service by Sept. 30, 2026 and transition its network to Verizon.

  • Main action:Carolina West Wireless (CWW) will cease wireless operations by Sept. 30, 2026 and is transitioning its network to Verizon; customers who switch to Verizon before July 30 will receive a $150 Mastercard gift card per line and Verizon will not charge mobile line activation fees. CEO Slayton Stewart said the decision reflects rising infrastructure demands and the company pledged support for employees via severance and career services. CWW did not disclose the fate of its FCC-overseen wireless licenses.
  • Background and reaction: CWW was founded in 1991 and is owned by a partnership of Skyline Telephone and Surry Communications; the Competitive Carriers Association President & CEO Tim Donovan urged sustainable USF operational expense support for rural carriers and called on Congress and the FCC to act promptly. Links to CWW customer transition FAQs and local reporting are cited in the article.