Starwood: Project Tamarack
Project Tamarack is a $12 billion hyperscale data center campus that Starwood Digital Ventures plans in West Columbia, Mason County, West Virginia, served from the Appalachian Power grid.
Starwood Digital Ventures is a subsidiary of Starwood Capital Group. Starwood Capital Group is a private investment firm with a primary focus on global real estate. Founded in 1991 by Chairman and CEO Barry Sternlicht, Starwood Capital's hallmark is to invest opportunistically, moving between asset classes, geographies and positions in the capital stack as the firm perceives risk/return dynamics to be evolving. To execute this strategy, Starwood Capital has built up asset-class and geographic expertise in our target markets. In its pursuit of the most compelling opportunities globally, Starwood Capital has invested in more than 30 countries, ranging from the Americas to Europe to Asia. Starwood Capital is led by seasoned professionals who have successfully navigated all stages of the real estate investment cycle, with dedicated teams focused on acquisitions, asset management, capital markets, capital raising/investor relations and accounting.
Project Tamarack is a $12 billion hyperscale data center campus that Starwood Digital Ventures plans in West Columbia, Mason County, West Virginia, served from the Appalachian Power grid.
Starwood Capital's re-proposed data center in Alexandria, Virginia, is moving forward despite strong community opposition.
Starwood Capital Group secured approval from the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors to purchase 41.7 acres of county-owned land at 3721 Stonecroft Boulevard in Chantilly, Virginia, for $166.8 million ($4M/acre).
Starwood Digital Ventures’ "Project Washington" data center remains blocked after a Delaware state board unanimously upheld its rejection.
Starwood Digital Ventures’ "Project Washington" data center remains blocked after a Delaware state board unanimously upheld its rejection.
October 30, 2026 West Virginia
FirstEnergy's data center pipeline grew to 26 GW in the third quarter. The pipeline expanded 4.8% from the prior quarter, and the West Virginia portion climbed to 6 GW from 4.3 GW. Monongahela Power and Potomac Edison, the FirstEnergy utilities behind the Maidsville Energy Center, expect a...
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Amazon has settled its civil claims against two former AWS real estate managers it accused of taking kickbacks on Northern Virginia data center deals. The company told a federal court on October 20 that it had reached the agreement with Carl Nelson and Casey Kirschner, less than two weeks before...
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Nscale is in talks to sell Anthropic roughly $45 billion of AI computing capacity from a second building at its Monarch data center campus in West Virginia, a deal that would nearly double the AI lab's commitments to the Nvidia-backed neocloud. Bloomberg first reported the talks on Monday,...
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State Sen. Russet Perry on Tuesday released draft legislation that would halt approvals for new data centers across Virginia for three years, escalating the political fight over the industry's growth in the world's largest data center market. Senate Bill 843 would take effect July 1, 2027...
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A 100MW data center could be developed in Wheeling, West Virginia. Stokes Inc said Silicon Foundation has acquired a 15-acre industrial site at 74 Warwood Avenue, formerly the Centre Foundry, to build a 60,000 sq ft (5,575 sqm) facility. Stokes will act as EPC contractor. The site has an active...
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