Mason County residents faced with buyout as AI data center campus goes up

Video of previous coverage MASON COUNTY, W.Va (WOWK) -- The company behind a hyperscale AI data center campus is offering to buy neighboring properties impacted by the construction. However, the mostly retired homeowners feel they’re being pushed out of the homes they’ve lived in for decades.   The future Monarch Compute Campus is set to span 2,250 acres just North of Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Nscale is developing the massive project alongside tech giants such as NVIDIA. [...]