Data Center Registry
Project Tamarack
West Columbia, Mason County, West Virginia · All 2 Starwood Digital Ventures sites
Project Tamarack is a proposed data center in West Columbia, West Virginia (Mason County), operated by Starwood Digital Ventures. The public record puts it at 2.2 GW planned, a reported $12 billion investment. It has documented support and documented opposition on record.
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Facility record
Proposed
- Operator
- Starwood Digital Ventures
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- West Columbia, Mason County, WV
- Coordinates
- 38.9831, -82.0635 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- 2.2 GW planned
- Land
- Not established from a public source
- Investment
- $12 billion
- Announced
- Not established from a public source
- Utility
- Appalachian Power
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Closed loop
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- 300 permanent; 1,000 construction
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- Mixed reception
- Source confidence
- Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation
Opposition and litigation at this site
Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Project Tamarack in West Columbia, Mason County, West Virginia appear in the record, with no clear majority position. Announced 2026-09-03 as a High Impact Data Center certification, ~10 miles from Nscale's existing Monarch project.
How the community has taken it
Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: mixed reception means documented support and documented opposition both exist with no clear majority position on record.
Announced 2026-09-03 as a High Impact Data Center certification, ~10 miles from Nscale's existing Monarch project. Local advocacy group Mason County United (Elaine Matheny): 'It was a total, total shocker' -- 'we never dreamed that one would already have the [High-Impact Data Center] designation' before the public knew. Resident Sandra Kapp welcomed the growth/income but said 'I don't know what the adverse effects of that's going to be down the road for our children'; resident Jacob Hatcher was more concerned about land loss than the jobs tradeoff. The Mason County Commission sent a letter requesting amendments to HB 2014 to allow greater local control over data-center siting. No vote, formal hearing, or litigation documented as of 2026-09-04, so classified mixed rather than contested.
Power and water
Reported to use existing Appalachian Power grid infrastructure rather than dedicated on-site generation, unlike the nearby Nscale/Monarch project.
Developer describes a closed-loop cooling system intended to limit water consumption.
Notes on the record
Announced 2026-09-03 by Gov. Morrisey as a separate, distinct project from Nscale's Monarch Compute Campus (also Mason County, ~20 min drive south near Point Pleasant). Governor's office figure of 'approximately 2.16 gigawatts' converted directly to MW (2,160) -- exact stated figure, not a rounded estimate. Project details at projecttamarack.com (not independently fetched this run).
What the record does not establish, and the document that would
In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Land area
Which document closes each gap
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
- Land area
- The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.
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Other sites within 30 miles
Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.
- Monarch Compute Campus · Point Pleasant · Nscale8 mi · Under construction · 2 GW · Contested
- Google Putnam County Data Center · Buffalo · Google24 mi · Proposed · Mixed reception
- Saadia Holding Athens-Dover Township Data Center · The Plains · Saadia Holding LLC27 mi · Proposed · Opposed
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Project Tamarack data center in West Columbia?
Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Project Tamarack in West Columbia, Mason County, West Virginia appear in the record, with no clear majority position. Announced 2026-09-03 as a High Impact Data Center certification, ~10 miles from Nscale's existing Monarch project.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Project Tamarack data center?
No lawsuit over Project Tamarack appears in the record we track as of September 13, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.
How much water does Project Tamarack use?
No water withdrawal figure for Project Tamarack is on record here. Cooling is recorded as closed_loop, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Project Tamarack, and how big is it?
Starwood Digital Ventures is the operator on record. We hold 2 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 2.2 GW.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Project Tamarack," updated September 13, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/starwood-tamarack-west-columbia-mason-wv.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/starwood-tamarack-west-columbia-mason-wv, retrieved September 14, 2026.
Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.
Sources for this record
As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.
- 1.Starwood Digital Ventures announces data center for Mason County · WDTV · retrieved September 13, 2026
- 2.'Total shocker': Residents react to second data center coming to Mason County · WSAZ · retrieved September 13, 2026
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