How one data center company is exploiting West Virginia’s fragmented oversight laws to sidestep scrutiny

WV frustration mounts amid evidence state is lagging in data center protection

Frustration among residents is building over evidence West Virginia is short on protection from data center impacts to power bills throughout the state via the Public Service Commission and in Tucker County, where Fundamental Data plans a massive data center complex. Belying Fundamental Data’s image among project critics as a distressingly mysterious outsider in an even more potentially troubling light was an appearance by self-identified compan…

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How one data center company is exploiting West Virginia’s fragmented oversight laws to sidestep scrutiny

Last month, the West Virginia Department of Commerce demanded that a data center developer operating in Tucker County disclose key details about a project locals say has been shrouded in secrecy, rumor and hearsay.  Then on July 1, the Department of Commerce did an about-face. The company, Fundamental Data, claimed the project was conceptual, and the department agreed, finding that the company doesn’t have legal control over the piece of land se…