TUCKER COUNTY, W.Va. — Tucked in a deep-red district in West Virginia, two tiny tourist towns rest high up in the Allegheny Mountains along the Blackwater River, nestled alongside grand waterfalls, winding hollows and scenic overlooks.
And soon, 10,000 acres between the towns of Thomas and Davis and spanning into neighboring Grant County could become home to one of the “largest data center campuses in the world,” its developers told The Wall Street Journal, including a new natural gas power plant with diesel backup generators and a solar facility — although its public details keep changing.
