Nscale has signed an agreement to acquire American Intelligence & Power Corporation( AIPCorp), sponsored by Fidelis New Energy and 8090 Industries, including the Monarch Compute Campus in West Virginia – with plans to build one of the world’ s largest AI Factories.
The acquisition secures the Monarch Compute Campus, a site with up to 2,250 acres in Mason County, West Virginia – and the United States’ first state-certified AI microgrid with a power runway scalable to over 8 gigawatts. It also establishes Nscale Energy & Power – a new global division of Nscale headquartered in Houston, Texas. The site has access to longterm, low-cost, onsite powered microgrid to support multigigawatt expansion over the long-term, a key bottleneck in the buildout of in-demand, cutting-edge AI compute.
The West Virginia campus is the first state-certified utility grid purpose-built for AI workloads in the United States. Initial power capacity of 2 gigawatts is expected to be online by the first half of 2028 with an expansion to approximately 8 gigawatts planned for 2031.
“ Nscale is a global company and the US is the world’ s largest AI infrastructure market. AI infrastructure needs to be built where demand is, and right now a significant share of that demand is in the United States,” said Josh Payne, CEO, Nscale.
“ Monarch allows us to meet that demand. The acquisition builds on our existing US footprint and reflects the pace at which we are scaling to serve customers around the world.”
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Google has announced plans to develop a new data centre in Michigan through a partnership with US-based DTE Energy, committing to enable 2.7 GW of new clean resources to support the local grid.
The data centre will be located in DTE Energy’ s service territory, with Google currently evaluating a site in Van Buren Township. The company stated it will add clean, around-theclock power directly to the grid to support the new facility and enhance the state’ s grid reliability.
Under the Clean Capacity Acceleration Agreement with DTE, the 2.7 GW of new resources will include solar power, advanced storage technologies and demand flexibility. The agreement also aims to bring new clean resources online while supporting Michigan’ s transition away from coal-fired power, according to the company.
Google will fully cover its electricity costs and infrastructure needs as part of its standard approach to building new data centres. The company stated that this approach is designed to protect local ratepayers and bolster the long-term resilience of the state’ s electricity grid.
This announcement comes as Google aims to secure power supply for the development of its data centres.
In February 2026, the company signed two long-term Power Purchase Agreements( PPAs) with TotalEnergies to deliver up to 1 GW of solar capacity over 15 years to power data centres in Texas and with Xcel Energy for 1.9 GW( 1.4 GW of wind, 200 MW of solar and 300 MW / 30 GWh of long-duration energy storage) for a data centre in Pine Island, Minnesota.
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