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I’m confused by the article mentioning West Virginia as a prime location for data centers along side Ohio - I am not aware of a large concentration of data centers in WV? (Unlike VA, of course)

https://westvirginiawatch.com/2025/01/16/west-virginia-isnt-...

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In broad strokes, take AWS for example with us-east-1 being in Virginia and us-east-2 being in Ohio, respectively, and wondering how to fuel future East Coast expansion, West Virginia would offer similar latencies in a deep-red state (meaning, deals will happen when palms get greased) with a powerful energy lobby (that would appreciate additional energy demand). Being a poor state, the price of labor will be cheap as well, both to build the data centers and to maintain them afterwards.

Maybe the author thought West Virginia was the western part of Virginia? I know it sounds preposterous, but I think it’s commensurate with the quality of the headline and article.

John Denver made the same mistake

West Virginia is not West Virginia. Makes more sense if you flip it around.

West Virginia is not west Virginia.

Also West Virginia would more accurately be North Virginia.

(But not “northern” Virginia aka NoVA, where the data centers are … just to make it more confusing)

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