West Virginia + AI: What Could Change in the Next 1–5 Years (And How to Prepare)
AI won’t skip the Mountain State. Over the next one to five years, West Virginia will feel AI’s impact through data-center buildouts , workforce shifts , state and local adoption , education pivots , and broadband policy choices . Here’s a practical, investor- and operator-focused outlook with concrete moves you can make now. 1) Data centers and energy: the new industrial policy What’s happening: State leaders are actively recruiting data centers—an AI infrastructure segment