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Google Putnam County Data Center

Google · Buffalo, WV · United States

Facility record

Lifecycle
ProposedSource-reported lifecycle
Location precision
approximate
Address as listed
22272 Charleston Road
Coordinates
38.64411, -81.956511
Serving utility, source-reported
Appalachian Power (AEP)
Operational capacity, source-reported
Not published
Planned capacity, source-reported
Not published
Source record updated
2026-10-30

Source-reported capacity; not metered consumption. Review underlying documents and notes. Planned capacity may include future phases and is not added to operational capacity here. The source may use facility, grid-feed or IT capacity definitions; consult the linked documents.

Coordinate precision is a source label, not an independent parcel survey. A marker does not confirm utility territory or establish an effect on residential bills.

Reported lifecycle history

  1. Proposed

    1,700 acres on both sides of Route 62, north end of Buffalo near the Kanawha River; approved as a High Impact Development Project but still in due diligence/early stage.

    Underlying source

Source notes

1,700 acres both sides of Route 62, north end of Buffalo near the Kanawha River (address disclosed as 22272 Charleston Road). Announced March 2026 as a multibillion-dollar investment with no figure stated; State Treasurer Larry Pack's September 2026 report on data center tax revenue uses an estimated $7 billion total investment for the Google project, saying the project 'lacks investment specifics at the present time', so no investment figure is recorded; still in early due diligence. As of 2026-09-10, the status was unchanged (proposed). The most recent coverage found (an update dated 2026-09-03) still describes the site as an application under review, not a permitted or under-construction project. Capacity and water/cooling type remain unconfirmed: Google's own spokesperson has not disclosed power or water figures for this site as of the 2026-09-03 update. As of October 2026, neither West Virginia Public Broadcasting's reports nor Google's project site gives a site power-demand or water-volume figure: West Virginia Public Broadcasting reports plans for generating 100% of the electricity needed and treating 120% of the water needed, and that MN8 Energy said it will provide 86 megawatts of renewable energy to Google's data centers in the region; Google's project site gives its 100% and 120% figures only as company-wide commitments (it pays for 100% of the electricity its data centers use and aims to replenish 120% more freshwater than it consumes, on average, across its data centers and offices by 2030). No job count is recorded: officials cite only non-numeric 'thousands of construction jobs and hundreds of permanent roles,' and, as of September 2026, no source found gives integer counts. No AI classification is assigned: sources describe this as a general Google data center / cloud campus, and none of the sources reviewed as of September 2026 specifically frames this site as AI-dedicated (vs. general cloud). No facility-specific incentive/abatement program was found in any source reviewed as of September 2026; HB 2014's tax-revenue split (majority to state, county keeps roughly 30%) is a distribution of taxes the facility generates, not a subsidy granted to the facility, so it is not recorded as a subsidy.

Google's project site states the company "is committed to pay for all necessary electrical infrastructure required to run its data center, including substations and transmission upgrades." West Virginia Public Broadcasting (2026-06-04) reports plans for "generating 100% of the electricity needed" for the campus. No utility, generation technology or megawatt figure has been published, so those fields are left unset.

Sources and provenance

Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.

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