Monarch Compute Campus

Also known as Nscale West Virginia AI campus

Operated by Nscale at Monarch Campus (Mason County) .

Phase 1 seed dataset, compiled by hand. These rows were built from public operator, laboratory and vendor sources. A mechanical second-reader pass has since fetched every cited source: 1263 of 1345 systems have a readable citation that names them, and 56 are genuinely weakly sourced. Every claim carries its source and a confidence tier. Treat anything below verified as a lead, not a citation.

Measured performance

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Figures are as last publicly reported for the configuration described below, not a live measurement. Where a system was upgraded in place, the post-upgrade configuration is shown and the earlier one appears in the timeline.

What this machine is made of

One row per supplier relationship. “Supplier at build” is the company that shipped the part at the time; where that company has since been acquired, the parent it rolls up to today is shown beside it. That distinction is what makes ticker-level aggregation possible across a thirty-year dataset.

Role	Part	Supplier at build	Quantity	Confidence	Source
Integrator	- Nscale builds and operates the AI factory campus and its on-site microgrid	Nscale	-	Reported	aap.com.au
Accelerator	NVIDIA Vera Rubin Accelerators NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 GPUs, 1.35 GW planned first phase	NVIDIA NVDANASDAQ	-	Reported	kyodonewsprwire.jp

AI datacenter metrics

Figures beyond an accelerator count, each with who stated it. What can and cannot be compared across AI datacenters.

Metric	Value	As of	Basis	Note	Source
Facility power	2,000 MW	2026-03-17	Design target	Nscale: 2 GW of power online by the first half of 2028, from on-site Caterpillar G3500 natural gas generators; a target, not a measured draw.	kyodonewsprwire.jp aap.com.au

How it is powered

Source	Provider	MW	Status	As of	Basis	Note	Source link
On-site gas	-	2,000	planned	2026-03	Operator stated	Nscale: Caterpillar G3500 series natural gas generators targeting 2 GW by the first half of 2028 inside a state-certified on-site microgrid; no local-utility draw.	kyodonewsprwire.jp aap.com.au

How AI campuses are powered: capacities are what the operator, utility or filing states, not what has been delivered.

The read

Nscale's AI factory campus on up to 2,250 acres in Mason County, West Virginia, acquired with American Intelligence & Power Corporation in March 2026 and described by Nscale as the first state-certified AI microgrid in the US, with a power runway above 8 GW. Nscale's 17 March 2026 release with Microsoft, NVIDIA and Caterpillar states 1.35 GW of NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 GPUs, deployment from late 2027, and 2 GW of on-site Caterpillar G3500 natural gas generation targeted for the first half of 2028. Bloomberg reported on 26 August 2026 (relayed by trade press, not confirmed by Anthropic or Nscale) that Anthropic took 460 MW of the first phase for six years after Microsoft withdrew its letter of intent; that figure is recorded as a reported contracted claim only. No GPU count is published and nothing is yet built, so the status is planned.

Timeline

2026-03-17 Announced source

Site & facility

Monarch Campus (Mason County)

Location: Mason County, WV, USA
Cooling: Closed-loop, no municipal drinking water

aap.com.au kyodonewsprwire.jp

Change history

2026-10-09 Added Monarch Compute Campus

Source check

We fetched this system's own citations and recorded whether each page actually mentions it. This is a corroboration signal, not a fact check, and it is published so you can see how well the sourcing holds up rather than take it on trust.

Cited source	Result	Found on the page
kyodonewsprwire.jp	names system and part	NVIDIA Vera Rubin
globaldatacenterhub.com	names system and part	NVIDIA Vera Rubin

Checked 2026-10-13 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.