# Nscale Advances West Virginia AI Campus

Nscale is developing an AI data center campus in West Virginia for Anthropic. The first building, planned at 460 megawatts, is covered by a reported $44.6 billion agreement; a second building and roughly $45 billion agreement remain under discussion. Nvidia is reportedly considering a residual-value guarantee to help finance construction and power costs, but that arrangement has not been finalized. The project is commercial, not a government solicitation, but its scale may create opportunities for contractors serving data center construction, power infrastructure, and operations, subject to financing, execution, grid-access, and site-impact risks.

- Construction, electrical, power, and data center operations firms can assess potential commercial work associated with the planned campus; no specific solicitation or award for those services is identified.
- The first-building agreement is reported at **$44.6 billion**; the possible second-building agreement is approximately **$45 billion** and remains under discussion.
- Nvidia’s proposed guarantee is not finalized, so contractors should not treat the financing arrangement or second-building work as secured.

**Jurisdictions:** sled
**Industries:** Information Technology, Construction & Infrastructure
**Topics:** Artificial Intelligence, Physical Infrastructure
**Published:** October 31, 2026

### Government Entities
- State of West Virginia

### Vendors
- Nscale (data center project developer and operator)
- Nvidia (proposed guarantor and chip supplier)
- Anthropic (customer under the first-building agreement and prospective customer for a second building)

### Sources
- [Nvidia weighs playing the cosigner for Nscale’s AI data center in West Virginia | TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/30/nvidia-weighs-playing-the-cosigner-for-nscales-ai-data-center-in-west-virginia) - TechCrunch