West Virginia plans to host more proposed data center capacity than its own residents consume in electricity.

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Energy

No agency publishes a combined figure for proposed data center demand in West Virginia. The numbers below are ours, built from each project's own filings.

Estimated

Combined annual electricity demand, Phase 1 across all announced projects.

[figure] terawatt-hours per year.

How this was calculated

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Estimated annual demand compared with familiar reference points
Reference point	Annual electricity (TWh)	Source
All announced WV projects, Phase 1	[figure]	Our estimate
All announced WV projects, full build-out	[figure]	Our estimate
All West Virginia electricity consumption	[figure]	[agency, year]
All U.S. data centers	[figure]	[report, year]

Comparisons across these rows are approximate. The reference figures come from different years and different methodologies, and are shown to give a sense of scale rather than to support precise ratios.

Water

Water use splits into two categories that are often conflated. Direct water is consumed cooling the facility itself. Indirect water is consumed generating the electricity the facility uses. For projects that generate their own power on site, both fall within the same fence line.

Estimated

Combined annual water consumption, direct and indirect.

[figure] billion gallons per year.

How this was calculated

Placeholder: intensity factors used for direct and indirect water, and their sources. State the cooling architecture assumed, and what the estimate becomes under the alternative.

Not disclosed