{"id":194218,"date":"2026-03-09T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/west-virginia-secures-4-billion-artificial-intelligence-data-center-investment\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T14:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T18:55:12","slug":"west-virginia-secures-4-billion-artificial-intelligence-data-center-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/west-virginia-secures-4-billion-artificial-intelligence-data-center-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"West Virginia Secures $4 Billion Artificial Intelligence Data Center Investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/broadbandbreakfast.com\/west-virginia-secures-4-billion-artificial-intelligence-data-center-investment\/\">West Virginia Secures $4 Billion Artificial Intelligence Data Center Investment<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/broadbandbreakfast.com\/west-virginia-secures-4-billion-artificial-intelligence-data-center-investment\/\">https:\/\/broadbandbreakfast.com\/west-virginia-secures-4-billion-artificial-intelligence-data-center-investment\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-09 14:14:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"broadbandbreakfast.com\">broadbandbreakfast.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>West Virginia secured a $4 billion investment from Penzance Management to develop its first High Impact Intelligence Center, called the Bedington Campus.<\/li>\n<li>The project will span 548 acres in Berkeley County\u2019s Falling Waters District, featuring 1.9 million square feet and 600 megawatts of IT capacity.<\/li>\n<li>The Bedington Campus aims to support artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and advanced manufacturing workloads.<\/li>\n<li>The investment is expected to create about 1,000 construction jobs and 125 permanent positions, with no state funding utilized.<\/li>\n<li>Governor Patrick Morrisey highlighted the project as a significant win for West Virginia\u2019s competitiveness in the global tech economy.<\/li>\n<li>The choice was influenced by West Virginia\u2019s business climate and legislation designed to streamline permitting and promote microgrid use.<\/li>\n<li>Penzance Managing Partner Victor Tolkan emphasized the support from recent state laws which expedited permitting and facilitated on-site power generation.<\/li>\n<li>Berkeley County Commission President Eddie Gochenour noted the county&#8217;s plan to use reclaimed water to support the facility while conserving local resources.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Virginia Secures $4 Billion Artificial Intelligence Data Center Investment https:\/\/broadbandbreakfast.com\/west-virginia-secures-4-billion-artificial-intelligence-data-center-investment\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-09 14:14:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":194219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/broadbandbreakfast.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/GMS05301-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-194218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194220,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194218\/revisions\/194220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}