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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Empire AI Gamma.
Approximate source coordinates; this is not a parcel claim. Nearby source points are combined into one accessible target that opens this exact map scope. View these exact rows on the interactive map →
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
- under construction
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 10 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000564
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.
- Cooling
- Closed-loop
- AI-use label (provider)
- confirmed
Provider notes
Water. State and university sources state Gamma integrates "into University at Buffalo's buildout of a thermal energy network in a closed loop system," with "process heat from Empire AI" used "to heat buildings on campus." Recorded as closed_loop on the recirculating-circuit rule. No water withdrawal figure is published.
What the source record says
Empire AI's permanent, full-scale computing facility. Both fetched sources say "Construction continues on Empire AI's permanent, full-scale Gamma facility at UB, which is expected to be completed by the end of 2027" - hence under_construction, but confidence is 'reported' because neither fetched source names a specific building, parcel, or campus (UB has Buffalo and Amherst campuses) and neither gives a construction start date. Coordinates are a Buffalo city-level placeholder, approximate; do NOT treat as a parcel. Confirmed absences (2026-09-09): no MW capacity, no dedicated investment figure for Gamma specifically, no acreage, no job count, and no site-level subsidy agreement stated in either source. Same consortium-wide state capital commitment as reported against empire-ai-beta-buffalo-ny -- total backing over $500M incl. private/philanthropic funds, not phase-specific. Flag for hand review re: attribution; this article does not name a Gamma-specific dollar figure. SUBSIDY SCOPE NOTE (maintainer adjudication 2026-09-10): the $340m Empire AI consortium-wide state capital commitment is statewide, not Gamma-specific, and the cited source names no Gamma-specific dollar figure. Deliberately NOT recorded as a site-level `subsidies` entry to avoid counting the same state money against two facility records.
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
No status history was supplied in this edition.
Sources and attribution
These sources are listed for the whole row. Unless a figure links to its own source, the provider does not mark which one gave it, so a figure may not appear in every source.
- 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)
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID empire-ai-gamma-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).
Compute Atlas 1.34.1 with retained prior rows and publication holds. This is a DataCenterData composite, not an unmodified publisher edition. This row uses the captured source from 1.34.1, source as of 2026-10-14T20:40:52.293Z.
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Recorded information
What this page records, grouped by topic, with the source's units and qualifications. Company-reported values stay labeled as company-reported. Related listings are shown separately.
Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000564
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 under construction
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not stated
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Closed-loop
Provider label.
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 · Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact · Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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