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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Empire AI Beta.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Empire AI consortium (hosted by the University at Buffalo, SUNY)
- Address and locality
- Buffalo · Erie County · New York
- Official metro area
- Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY
- Source-reported status
- operational
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 10 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000563
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Announced investment
- $40 million
- AI-use label (provider)
- confirmed
- Announced
- June 2025
Incentives reported by the source
Whether each incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
- Empire AI state capital funding (Beta-phase NVIDIA supercomputing equipment) · New York State · 2025 · $40 million (as stated) Open cited source →
What the source record says
New York State-funded public AI supercomputer, the second phase (Beta) of the Empire AI consortium. UB states it is "housed at the Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences on the medical campus"; coordinates are geocoded to that building on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, hence approximate. Described as "a $40 million NVIDIA-powered supercomputer" delivering "an 11-fold increase in AI training capacity, a 40-fold boost in AI inference and an 8-fold expansion in data storage" versus Alpha. Confirmed absences (2026-09-09): none of the three fetched sources states a GPU count, an IT load or any MW figure, a water/cooling detail, an acreage, or a job count for Beta. Empire AI overall is backed by "over $500 million in public and private funding"; that is consortium-wide, not this site, so it is not recorded as investmentUsd. The Alpha phase (launched 2024, Simons Foundation gift) is also housed at UB and is the predecessor system on the same campus, not a separate site. The permanent Gamma facility is tracked separately as empire-ai-gamma-buffalo-ny. This $340M is the consortium-wide state capital commitment (total backing over $500M incl. private/philanthropic funds), covering Empire AI statewide -- not specific to the UB Beta phase. Reported separately from the $40M Beta-specific figure above. Flag for hand review re: attribution to this specific facility record vs. the consortium generally. SUBSIDY SCOPE NOTE (maintainer adjudication 2026-09-10): a $340m consortium-wide state capital commitment (total backing over $500m including private and philanthropic funds) covers Empire AI STATEWIDE and is not attributable to this phase or site. It is deliberately NOT recorded as a site-level `subsidies` entry, because the same figure would otherwise be counted against both the Beta and Gamma records. The phase-specific $40m Beta award IS recorded.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2026-08 · source-reported operational
Governor Hochul announced Empire AI Beta fully online.
Sources and attribution
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- Governor Hochul Announces Empire AI Beta Fully Online as Federal Government Takes Inspiration From New York to Launch State and Regional AI Infrastructure Hubs · Office of the Governor of New York State
- Empire AI Beta, housed at UB, now fully online · University at Buffalo (UBNow)
- Governor Hochul Announces $40 Million to Launch Empire AI Beta Supercomputer · Office of the Governor of New York State
- Empire AI, housed at UB, awarded $40 million, Gov. Hochul says · University at Buffalo (UBNow)
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID empire-ai-beta-buffalo-ny. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000563
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
- AI-use label (provider): confirmed
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Buffalo, NY · Erie (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Empire AI consortium (hosted by the University at Buffalo, SUNY)
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported operational
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: June 2025
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2026-08 · source-reported operational
Status history supplied by the source.
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not stated
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $40 million
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Incentive reported by the source: Empire AI state capital funding (Beta-phase NVIDIA supercomputing equipment) · New York State · 2025 · $40 million (as stated)
Whether the incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-10
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Area, acreage and buildings · Cooling, water, PUE and WUE · Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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