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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Sugar Hill Data Center (proposed, former Sugar Hill Golf Course).
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Four Winds of Lake Erie LLC
- Address and locality
- 7060 Route 5 · Portland · Chautauqua County · New York
- Official metro area
- Outside an official metropolitan boundary
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 21 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000684
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.
- Community response
- Provider label: contested
- Announced
- March 2026
Provider notes
Community. The Town of Portland Board passed a resolution of general support on 11 March 2026, while residents of Portland, Brocton and neighbouring communities organised opposition meetings and collected more than 3,100 petition signatures against the project, citing generator noise, water supply, electrical demand and impacts on the Lake Erie Grape Belt.
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What the source record says
Early-stage proposal on the grounds of the former Sugar Hill Golf Course along Route 5 (East Lake Road). Town Supervisor Rich Lewis characterised the project's stage as "we're on step negative one. We're not even to one yet." No megawatt figure, acreage or investment has been stated by the applicant in the sources reviewed — a board member's reference to "an $11 billion project" is a hypothetical raised in discussion, not an announced figure, and is deliberately not recorded. Coordinates are the golf-course polygon centroid; the built footprint is undefined.
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
- 2026-03-11 · source-reported proposed
Town of Portland Board passed a resolution expressing general approval of the proposed data center, subject to further review and additional details; no formal application had been submitted as of the 13 May 2026 board meeting.
Sources and attribution
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- Portland Town Board addresses confusion and concern over proposed data center · WKBW (Buffalo)
- Portland expresses support for proposed project at Sugar Hill · The Post-Journal (Jamestown, NY)
- OpenStreetMap/Nominatim: Sugar Hill Golf Course, Town of Portland, Chautauqua County, NY (OSM way 136101486) · OpenStreetMap contributors
- Area fully plugged in to data center debate · The Observer (Dunkirk, NY)
- WEED Inc. engages advisors to evaluate strategic alternatives — 44-acre Sugar Hill asset (Four Winds of Lake Erie, LLC), Chautauqua County; data center and infrastructure development opportunities (2026-04-09) · WEED Inc. via StockTitan
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID four-winds-sugar-hill-portland-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-000684
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.
Location and precision
- 7060 Route 5, Portland, NY · Chautauqua (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Four Winds of Lake Erie LLC
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported proposed
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: March 2026
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2026-03-11 · source-reported proposed
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
- Community response: Provider label: contested
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-21
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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