Delegate Daniel Linville

@ameliaknisely @BradMcElhinny Q: "Is it working?" A: "It is... working." *Adam Burkhammer whispered behind me Q: "Is it working well?" A: "It is not working well."

My favorite money trail to follow: WV now seeking new vendor to run online PATH system after nearly $400M spent and it’s still not working properly. PATH manages programs WV like Medicaid, emergency assistance and the foster care system. westvirginiawatch.com/2026/04/30/wv-…

@aakashgupta Wrong. Ours is 10GW with @nscale

Kevin O'Leary just got Utah to approve a 9 gigawatt data center. The entire state of Utah currently uses 4 gigawatts. The campus is called Stratos. It will run entirely off-grid. 41,200 acres in Box Elder County. Phase 1 is 3 GW. Full buildout reaches 9 GW, more than twice what Utah consumes today across homes, factories, hospitals, and the 48 existing data centers combined. Power comes from the Ruby Pipeline, a 680-mile interstate natural gas line that already crosses northern Utah on its way from Wyoming to Oregon. Kevin's team builds generation on-site and taps a pipeline that's already in the ground. The MIDA director told county commissioners the facility "will not take one electron" from the public grid. This is what the AI buildout actually looks like in 2026. The binding constraint on hyperscale has shifted to grid interconnection. The queue in most ISOs now runs 5 to 7 years. Hyperscalers do not have 5 to 7 years. So the workaround is pipeline gas. You stop waiting on PJM, MISO, ERCOT, or WECC, and you build your own power plant next to the rack. Stratos pushes that further than anyone has dared. 9 GW is roughly the output of nine nuclear reactors. They plan to generate it from natural gas on private land, as fast as the turbines can be installed. Utah cut the energy tax from 6% to 0.5% to land the project. The MIDA director said the quiet part out loud: "we don't want to strangle the goose that lays the golden egg." Local pushback was inevitable. The project doesn't draw from the public grid, so household power bills are untouched. The protest is about 40,000 acres of construction, gas turbine emissions, water draw for cooling, and what happens to a cattle county that's about to host the largest private power plant in the country. Kevin spent two decades on Shark Tank picking apart cap tables. He is now building the largest off-grid generation campus in North America and renting it to AI labs. Compute scarcity is a power problem dressed up as a chip problem.

Another American company now has successfully launched, landed, reused, and landed again a rocket. Incredible.

Congressman David McKinley was an exceptional human being. He chaired the West Virginia Republican Party, served in the WV House of Delegates, and Congress. David believed in me very early on as I entered politics. I'm grateful for that. I pray for peace for his wife Mary, his children, and his grandchildren as they mourn his passing.

Welcome home Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy! 🫶 The Artemis II astronauts have splashed down at 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11), bringing their historic 10-day mission around the Moon to an end.

Alcon, which manufactures eye care and medical products, announced Thursday an $81 million investment in its Huntington facility that is expected to create at least 75 high-tech jobs. Construction is already underway on the expansion, which company and state officials say will offer long-term, high-paying employment opportunities, with an average salary exceeding $80,000 annually. “Today’s announcement is significant because it shows that companies who have been with us through difficult times are continuing to grow,” West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey said. “Once you join West Virginia, you’re part of the family, and Alcon is an important part of ours.” wvnews.com/news/wvnews/al…

Moonbound. The Artemis II mission lifted off from @NASAKennedy's Launch Complex 39B today at 6:35pm ET (2235 UTC).

Thankful to Wmov Radio for the discussion this morning. It's jobs, always. Better jobs and bigger paychecks. More of our next generation staying here. With a career here. spreaker.com/episode/the-fi…

While the total size of the Putnam County @Google project has not yet been announced, the following tool may be helpful - slide the scale to a small, medium, or larger-sized project. Linvilleforwv.com/datacentertool

Big news!

Excited and honored to join Alcon today announcing another 75 jobs paying around $80,000/year and expanding to new products in Lesage, and right here in our district, Eastern Cabell County. 75 more careers. 75 more families with a great income. Right here at home. wvnews.com/news/wvnews/al…

Alcon is expanding in Cabell County, strengthening #WestVirginia’s role in advanced #manufacturing and life sciences. Since October, more than $12B in investment is fueling growth across the state. #YesWV #EconomicDevelopment @WVGovernor @wvcommerce westvirginia.gov/global-eye-car…

Despite West Virginia’s burden of maintaining nearly 71,000 miles of roads and continued backlog of bridge maintenance, the state moved up slightly in a nationwide rankings of road systems. newsandsentinel.com/news/local-new…

@kellakelWV @MichaelGiberso3 I placed it at 8GW due to the @nscale announcement. Happy to modify it (or create project specific pages) as additional projects are discussed.

@MichaelGiberso3 I think that's important context for folks seeing these eye popping numbers on the tool. @DelegateDaniel would you could be open to adjusting the slider to start out on a more realistic sized data center when folks hit the landing page?

Respectfully, please be very cautious/wary of these estimates & methodology. All of Loudon County’s 200 data centers generated $875 million in property tax revenue in FY24, less than this estimator says will come from a single one in WV. …372029.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/23372029…

@OperaStrange You posted a quote I stand by. And this discussion is entirely reliant upon datacenters. You've made datacenters probably $10 since we began today.

@DelegateDaniel i just posted the lies you told.

I want every West Virginian to understand what's at stake with data center development — so I built a tool to show you. Plug in any county. Slide the project size. Watch what happens to school funding, emergency services, and your personal income taxes. This is what economic development looks like. This is why I'm fighting for it. Try it for yourself 👇 🔗 linvilleforwv.com/datacentertool

@OperaStrange Lie? People move to ad-hominem when they've lost the discussion. And you know you did. Give it some thought before believing anyone who you might disagree with is bad. And you never have told me where there's a factual disagreement. Have a great day.

@DelegateDaniel it’s very convenient that Berkeley Cty residents would have to bear the economic/environmental brunt of the data center, but your county would reap the benefits without have to assume any mitigation costs. no wonder you’re willing to lie to bring these harmful projects to WV.

@trumpisevil2024 @MichaelGiberso3 I do appreciate you, ostensibly, paying a subscription for the very thing you seem to be opposed to.

@trumpisevil2024 @MichaelGiberso3 You might ask those "multiple AIs" about Chapter 5B, Article 2, Section 21 of the WV Code.. Among others.