West Virginia · network infrastructure
PeeringDB records four facilities in West Virginia across three cities, holding ten network presences. Alpha Technologies DC1 in South Charleston has six of them. The state also has an internet exchange, the West Virginia Internet Exchange in Charleston, with three participants, so some traffic meets locally rather than leaving the state.
Internet exchanges in West Virginia
Exchanges are attributed to the state through the city they sit in, because PeeringDB records a state for facilities but not for exchanges.
| Exchange | City | Participants |
|---|---|---|
| West Virginia Internet Exchange | Charleston | 3 |
Colocation facilities
Buildings where networks put equipment. The network count is how many PeeringDB members list a presence there.
| Facility | City | Networks present |
|---|---|---|
| Alpha Technologies DC1 | South Charleston | 6 |
| Citynet Charleston | Charleston | 2 |
| Citynet Bridgeport | Bridgeport | 1 |
| SecureNet DC1 | South Charleston | 1 |
What a West Virginia IP address tells you
Recorded capacity in West Virginia sits around Charleston. Alpha Technologies DC1 in South Charleston has six networks, more than the other three sites combined, and SecureNet DC1 in the same city has one. Citynet Charleston has two and Citynet Bridgeport has one. The West Virginia Internet Exchange in Charleston gives the state a local meeting point, though only three networks take part, so most of the ten presences here still reach each other through transit or at exchanges outside West Virginia.
A West Virginia IP address reports the registration on its address block rather than a physical position. The operator publishes an address for the prefix, geolocation providers copy it, and a block covering customers in several states can point at one office. Mobile addressing is broader again. The subscriber ASNs belonging to AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon each cover large service areas, so a device on a tower near Charleston can exit the network at a gateway that geolocates well outside the state.
The origin ASN is the field worth reading. Whois on the prefix returns the holder, the netname and the registered address, and an ASN drawn from the mobile ranges above marks a handset connection rather than equipment in one of the four recorded sites. Where a placement needs to be in West Virginia, that comes from the operator registering the block to a West Virginia address, and from nothing a user sets.
Mobile carriers in the United States
A mobile address anywhere in West Virginia is routed by one of the country's operators. Each entry lists the operator's ASNs so you can check which network an address belongs to.
Questions
How many data centres are in West Virginia?
The snapshot lists four facilities, in South Charleston, Charleston and Bridgeport, holding ten network presences. Alpha Technologies DC1 in South Charleston has six networks, Citynet Charleston has two, and Citynet Bridgeport and SecureNet DC1 have one network each.
Is there an internet exchange in West Virginia?
Yes. The West Virginia Internet Exchange runs in Charleston and the snapshot records three participants. That gives networks around Charleston somewhere to hand traffic to each other locally, though most of the ten presences in the state are not on it and peer elsewhere.
Can I get an IP address in West Virginia?
Placement follows the operator's address registration, not a customer's choice of state. A block reads as West Virginia when the operator holding it registered it to an address there. Mobile ranges cover wide areas, so a connection made in the state can still geolocate outside it.
Sources
- PeeringDB - facilities, network presence and exchange participants, snapshot 2026-09-07
- PROXIES.SX carrier and ASN registry - the operators routing mobile addresses in this country