This gets back to that particular stretch of the Ohio Valley's geography and infrastructure being very good for electricity generation
They built the massive Kyger Creek Plant in Cheshire to supply the Portsmouth Diffusion plant
Now they want to use it to power AI
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Nick Brumfield
Just learned the *only* stretch of 765 KV transmission lines in the US, the most efficient available, run straight up this portion of the Ohio Valley
Line it up with a map of coal plants along the river, and you can see how Appalachian coal gets put on boats, then transmitted to places like Chicago
Nick Brumfield
Fun fact: A lot of people don't know this but that area of the Ohio Valley's primary export is fossil fuel air pollution
Nick Brumfield
"This first phase of the Monarch Compute Campus will be a 2.16-gigawatt natural gas-fired off-grid facility. It will rely on 864 reciprocating internal combustion engines and associated equipment. Another 120 engines six burning natural gas and the others using diesel fuel for other uses."
Developers of the proposed data center along W.Va. 62 north of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, have submitted their application for a construction permit to the West Virgnia Department of Environmental...
