Inside Nscale's 2,250-acre, 8GW Monarch Compute Campus in West Virginia, which has been hit by construction issues, local opposition, and financing risks
THE SO WHAT
An 8 GW, 2,250-acre AI campus running into construction, community, and financing friction is a reminder that the bottleneck on frontier compute is now permitting and local politics as much as chips. If your roadmap assumes cheap, infinite GPU capacity, start mapping exposure to specific sites, power corridors, and community sentiment—not just your cloud contract term.
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