Nscale Snaps Up 2,250-Acre West Virginia Data Center Campus

Cloud computing upstart Nscale just made a massive land grab. The company has acquired American Intelligence & Power, gaining control of a sprawling 2,250-acre data center campus in West Virginia.

The ambition here is staggering. Nscale plans to build out up to 8 gigawatts of compute capacity on the site by 2031. For context, that's an enormous amount of power — enough to rival the energy consumption of a small country.

The deal positions Nscale as a serious player in the infrastructure arms race fueling AI and cloud workloads. Securing land and power at this scale is increasingly the bottleneck for companies racing to deploy next-generation compute.

With energy-hungry AI models driving insatiable demand for data center capacity, locking down a campus this size gives Nscale a significant runway to scale.