Marcellus/Utica-Powered Data Center Proposed for Morgantown, WV

Just coming to light for us now is an application to build a "data center" in Morgantown, WV. The application was filed last August, but the WV Dept. of Environmental Protection's Division of Air Quality held a hearing yesterday to accept public input on the facility. Marion Energy Partners wants to build the facility, yet its purpose is shrouded in mystery. The best guess is that this is another new cryptocurrency (bitcoin) mining operation. Our interest is that it will use four natural gas-fired turbines to generate the huge amounts of electricity needed to operate it--natural gas that will come from the Marcellus/Utica.

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