Is Point Pleasant Nscale 001 operational?

Not yet, Point Pleasant Nscale 001 has been announced and is not recorded as operational.

AnnouncedHyperscale

Point Pleasant Nscale 001 — 1,350 MW announced

Name: Point Pleasant Nscale 001
Address: Point Pleasant, United States

Point Pleasant, United States

Point Pleasant Nscale 001 is a hyperscale data centre operated by Nscale in Point Pleasant, United States, in the Point Pleasant (Ohio Valley) market. The site has been announced and is not yet operational, with 1,350 MW of announced capacity.

Who operates Point Pleasant Nscale 001?: Nscale.
Where is Point Pleasant Nscale 001?: Point Pleasant, United States, in the Point Pleasant (Ohio Valley) market.
Is Point Pleasant Nscale 001 operational?: Not yet, Point Pleasant Nscale 001 has been announced and is not recorded as operational.
What is the capacity of Point Pleasant Nscale 001?: 1,350 MW announced.

Project tracker

1,350 MW announced

Announced figure, unverified: no source on record has been checked against a second.

1,350 MW announced in the Point Pleasant (Ohio Valley) market, which has 1,350 MW of total potential at full buildout and none of it live yet.

The market today · Point Pleasant (Ohio Valley)

Planned: 1,350 MW
Total potential: 1,350 MW

Timeline

16 March 2026Merger acquisition
Point Pleasant Nscale 001 — changed ownership
Nscale today also announced the acquisition of American Intelligence & Power Corporation (“AIPCorp”), sponsored by Fidelis New Energy and 8090 Industries, which includes the Monarch Compute Campus, a site with up to 2,250 acres in Mason County, West Virginia, and the United States’ first state-certified AI microgrid with a power runway scalable to over eight gigawatts.
Source: nscale.com
16 March 2026Onsite generation
Point Pleasant Nscale 001 — onsite generation
Through a strategic collaboration with Caterpillar, Nscale will deploy Caterpillar G3500 series natural gas generator sets at sufficient scale to achieve two gigawatts of power generation by the first half of 2028, powering the NVIDIA Vera Rubin DSX AI Factory reference design.
Source: nscale.com
16 March 2026Prelease
Point Pleasant Nscale 001 — prelease
SAN JOSE, CA (GTC 2026) – March 16, 2026 – Nscale has signed a letter of intent with Microsoft to provide 1.35 gigawatts of AI compute capacity, setting up the West Virginia Monarch AI campus as a global flagship deployment of NVIDIA’s next-generation Vera Rubin GPUs as Vera Rubin NVL72 systems engineered with the NVIDIA Vera Rubin DSX AI Factory reference design.
Source: nscale.com
16 March 2026Announcement
Point Pleasant Nscale 001 — announced
The deployment will be delivered across multiple tranches beginning in late 2027, creating one of the largest dedicated AI compute installations in the world.
Source: nscale.com
April 2026Groundbreaking
Point Pleasant Nscale 001 — broke ground
The site map for the Monarch Compute Campus data center north of Point Pleasant, Mason County, shows three H-shaped buildings, each with its own set of generators powered by natural gas. Site preparation work began in April. Nscale, the company developing the data center, expects the data center to be in operation in January 2027.
Source: wvgazettemail.com
20 April 2026Permit filed
Point Pleasant Nscale 001 — permit filed
The application was submitted April 20 by Monarch Cloud Campus LLC, which is owned by international data center developer Nscale.
Source: wvgazettemail.com

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Coordinates

Position

38.84, -82.14

Location precision

Approximate

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