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Monarch Compute Campus Data Center Project

Sector: Data Center • Location: West Virginia, United States

Source: Distilled | Michael Thomas

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Monarch Compute Campus is an 8 GW off-grid data center project in West Virginia, acquired by Nscale and partnered with Microsoft to deploy 1.35 GW of Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL72 GPUs running on 100% natural gas. The project plans to bring the first 2 GW online by 2028 and scale to 8 GW by 2031, potentially increasing Microsoft's data center emissions by 40%.

Status: Prospective
Sector: Data Center, Natural Gas, Power Generation (CCGT)
Location: West Virginia, United States of America
Updated: 22 Jul 2026
Source: Distilled | Michael Thomas

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The project “Monarch Compute Campus Data Center Project” is an infrastructure initiative in the Data Center sector, located in West Virginia, United States. Taiyo aggregates data on it from Distilled | Michael Thomas.

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Original status	planned
Taiyo status	Prospective
Taiyo last update	2026-07-22

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Description	Monarch Compute Campus is an 8 GW off-grid data center project in West Virginia, acquired by Nscale and partnered with Microsoft to deploy 1.35 GW of Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL72 GPUs running on 100% natural gas. The project plans to bring the first 2 GW online by 2028 and scale to 8 GW by 2031, potentially increasing Microsoft's data center emissions by 40%.
Original sector	Energy and Data Center

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Country	United States of America (USA)
State	West Virginia

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Sector	Data Center, Natural Gas, Power Generation (CCGT)
Article published date	2026-03-20

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