West Virginia Digital Infrastructure

Mountains to Megawatts.

Turning underproductive Appalachian land into community-friendly, hyperscale-ready campuses for AI compute and economic development.

We design, build, and deliver turnkey digital infrastructure projects. One platform. One counterparty. One accountable team from raw acreage through commissioning. End-to-end.

The AI buildout is a race for national security and resilience. West Virginia is perfectly positioned to help win it, and the jobs, investment, and tax base that come with it.

What We Do

A Single Accountable Platform

Appalachia Infra is a West Virginia-based digital infrastructure platform built to serve three constituencies: landowners with underproductive Appalachian holdings, the developers and hyperscalers building the AI economy, and the West Virginia communities that have powered America for a century.

For Landowners

A discreet, structured way to unlock real value from underproductive Appalachian holdings — and to participate in what gets built next on the land your family has held for generations.

For Data Center Developers & Hyperscalers

The fastest credible path to a West Virginia campus. We deliver hyperscale-ready sites on a single accountable platform — not a broker, not a land assembler, not an EPC, but one team carrying a project from raw acreage through commissioning.

For West Virginia

Durable economic development — jobs, tax base, and infrastructure rooted in the counties that have powered America for a century. Every campus we deliver is built with a community-first approach.

Why West Virginia

West Virginia is being rediscovered — not for what it once produced, but for what it can power next.

The Mountain State has emerged as one of the most strategically positioned places in the country for data center development, expansion, and investment. Its energy footprint is unmatched: deep baseload generation, abundant low-cost power, and flexible microgrid capacity that delivers the scale and reliability the AI economy demands.

Geography reinforces the case. West Virginia sits in the middle of the country's primary AI compute corridor — between Ashburn, Columbus, and Atlanta — placing campuses within reach of the markets driving demand.

And the state has made it a priority to clear the path. Permitting, regulation, and policy are aligned to let data centers launch quickly and scale without friction.

The Team Behind the Platform

Behind the platform is a cross-disciplined team of senior operators, expert advisors, and supply chain partners — people who have financed, permitted, powered, and built infrastructure at this scale before.

Mark Rubin Mark Rubin Founder & CEO Richard Bleigh Richard Bleigh Field Operations Chris McKee Chris McKee Telecom & Digital Infrastructure Ray Conley Ray Conley AI Energy & Data Center Developer Jane Lute Jane Lute Cybersecurity & National Defense Luke Frazier Luke Frazier Community Relations Malcolm Frank Malcolm Frank AI Enterprise & SMB Solutions Preet Gill Preet Gill Risk Mitigation Bill Simmons Bill Simmons Government Relations
Meet the Team
Strategic Partners

Who We Build With

Delivering a hyperscale-ready campus takes power, pipe, fiber, permits, and people on the ground — the engineers, contractors, and advisors already at work across the portfolio.

Eagle Mountain Services AMP Data Centers Thrasher Group Steptoe & Johnson Critical Infrastructure Partners Spilman Law Lockton Crusader Industrial Express-Tek S&N Infrastructure
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Let's Talk

If you're a landowner, data center developer, hyperscaler, or an economic development advocate with a stake in West Virginia's digital infrastructure buildout, we'd like to hear from you.

Mark Rubin
Founder & CEO