Data Centers -- something catchy
Blurb about Berkeley and Jefferson County-- working on sitemaps
Eastern Panhandle Data Center Proposals Overview
BOTH PLACES: Berkeley County is home to a strong (wording) agricultural community with (XX) number of family and individually owned and operated farms.
In addition, Berkeley County has XX acres of protected land, including XX acres of conserved farmlands, XX acres of wetlands, XX acres of... etc.
Berkeley County..
Documented
Project Blue Jay (Penzance)
- Location: Berkeley County, WV on farmland in Bedington near Scrabble Road and Berkeley Station Road
- Developer: Penzance (Virginia-based company)
- Acreage: 548 acres
- IT Load: 600 MW
- Estimated Temporary Jobs: 1000+
- Estimated Permanent Jobs: 125+ (90k-110k each)
- Other disclosed: etc
Sources
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Documented
Project Carmel (QTS)
- Location: Berkeley and Jeffereson County, WV on an old orchard in Kearneysville; adjacent to the Hospice of the Eastern Panhandle, XX miles from the VA medical center, and immediately neighboring several residiential communities and new home construction
- Developer: QTS
- Acreage: 90 acres in Berkeley County, 190 acres in Jeffereson County
- IT Load: undisclosed
- Tenant: QTS (this company builds and occupies their own data centers)
Sources
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What remains undisclosed
Blurb about transparency and HB2014 (then link to the HB2014 page in sources/dropdown)
Sources
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Not disclosed
Project Blue Jay (Penzance)
- Cooling technology:
- Server base:
- Tenant:
- Water, energy, mitigation etc -- anything on HB2014 application:
Sources
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Not disclosed
Project Carmel (QTS)
- Cooling technology:
- Server base:
- Estimated Temporary Jobs: undisclosed
- Estimated Permanent Jobs: undiclosed
- Other disclosed:
- I could be wrong, but I think there is a plan that the BC planning commission has seen, but is not public -- need to verify what is and is not known here (not under HB 2014):
Sources
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What can reasonably be estimated
Where a figure has not been disclosed, it can sometimes be estimated from figures
that have been. Every estimate below shows its inputs and its method. If our
arithmetic is wrong, we want to hear about it.
How this was calculated
Placeholder: Methodology
Estimated
Annual electricity demand at full build-out.
Placeholder figure. Estimates will be based on Penzance 600 MW disclosure only as
QTS has not disclosed any information about data center capacity or engineering
How this was calculated
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Estimated
Placeholder — water estimate.
Placeholder figure.
How this was calculated
Method goes here.
Where To Go Next
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Penzance
Penzance
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QTS
QTS
<-- I think this could also attempt to add information about kinds of cooling technology and trades off between energy and water -- then will link to the
concerns with AI page for more information about purpose between how these data centers are used... THOUGHTS? -- see comments below also -->
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What Is A Data Center
Explaining what type of data centers are proposed here. And how AI training facilities differ from the servers behind everyday internet use.
<-- Maybe instead of P/S -- concerns more broadly? privacy, suviellance, autonomous weapons, drones, other ethical issues with AI tech -- advancing too fast
-- all models have broken out and hacked; people cannot control it; also -- use concerns -- location tracking, third party data brokers -- surveillance is
way more than cameras -- it is all data, every website, every motion, every transaction -- including other data like court records, credit score, --
-- being used to profile, analyze, deny, raise rates, -- (think insurance tracking, or rental applications, or even jobs) -- we have a digital profile we dont
even know about that is being in ways we don't know about -- and then there is the application side harms from users -- like misuse or tech addiction, imapcts to
kids, learning (entire college classes failed for cheating with AI), etc... we have no control of this! -->
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Privacy and surveillance
Explaining the capabilities of these technologies; what the facilities process, who uses it, and what the government and corporations are building with AI data
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Common Claims
Taking common talking points and breaking them down into what is factual, and what is false.
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Law and process
HB 2014 and other WV laws in regards to data centers, county zoning, and the sequence of notice and public comment to date.
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Statewide overview
What these projects add up to across West Virginia, and the other communities tracking them.
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WV Resident Stories
Dedicated to highlighting and centering the voices of the residents of West Virginia who will be affected by these projects.
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Interactive map
Project sites alongside historic, protected, and public lands.