Fluidstack가 버지니아주 와이스 카운티에서 99에이커 규모의 AI 데이터센터 캠퍼스 건설을 시작했다.

Construction is underway on Fluidstack's 99-acre data center campus at Progress Park in Wythe County, Virginia, DatacenterDynamics reported on Tuesday. Fluidstack, the AI cloud provider building data centers for Anthropic, expects most of the campus to be completed by the end of 2027, with operations starting in phases, it told county supervisors last month.

The site was first announced in December 2025 by Solis Arx, a new developer led by founder and CEO Rob Noll, with a total projected investment of "over $1 billion," according to county administrator Stephen Bear. Fluidstack later took over the project, and Wythe County's board approved an amendment renaming it Fluidstack in August. Neither the company nor the county has disclosed the campus's power capacity or the size of its buildings, and Fluidstack has not named an end customer.

**Power, water and jobs**

Solis Arx arranged electric service directly with Appalachian Power, and the county said the project would not affect local electricity rates. Fluidstack says it will pay for its electricity use, the infrastructure it needs and upgrades to the nearby substation. The campus will use a closed-loop cooling system that needs an initial fill of about 400,000 gallons of water, with ongoing use mostly for staff.

Fluidstack expects about 1,000 construction workers at peak and 75 permanent jobs once the campus is running, and says it did not seek or accept project-specific tax incentives. The county gave the ungraded Progress Park lot to the developer at no cost and projects more than $10 million a year in tax revenue by 2028 if the project stays on schedule, which would make it the county's largest taxpayer.

The project has drawn local opposition, and Wythe County has no zoning outside its two towns. "The deal has been done. The grading is underway," Andy Kegley, leader of the residents' group Preserve Wythe, said at an Oct. 28 open house. The county is now drafting its first land-use ordinance.

**Fluidstack's buildout**

Anthropic said in November 2025 that it would invest $50 billion in U.S. computing infrastructure with Fluidstack, starting with sites in Texas and New York. Fluidstack is also the anchor tenant at bitcoin-miner conversions backed by Google, including TeraWulf's Lake Mariner campus in New York and Cipher Mining's 168 MW lease. In April, the company was in talks to raise $1 billion at an $18 billion valuation.