NOAA Environmental Security Computing Center (NESCC)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · Fairmont, WV · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- OperationalSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- Not published
- Coordinates
- 39.484898, -80.1426539
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Not established
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-11
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
No dated operational history is established in this record. Publication, discovery and source-update dates are not opening dates.
Source notes
Federal research-computing center in the I-79 High Technology Park, Marion County. Home of NOAA's Hera HPC system; a $100M NOAA HPC system named Rhea is planned for the site to support AI/ML weather, ocean and climate modeling. NOAA's own fact sheet (noaa.gov) could not be retrieved as of September 2026, so the 54,000 sq ft and $27.6M-establishment figures reported elsewhere are not used. Pin is the city centroid — the exact park parcel is not published in the cited source.
Sources and provenance
- NOAA's $100M Rhea supercomputer coming to Fairmont, boosting West Virginia tech growth · source retrieved 2026-09-22
- OpenStreetMap Nominatim geocode for Fairmont, Marion County, WV · source retrieved 2026-09-22
- Press release: $100 million for new NOAA high-performance computer system (Rhea) at NESCC Fairmont · source retrieved 2026-10-11
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.