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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Kenwood Commons Technology Campus.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Guild Ventures
- Address and locality
- Albany · Albany County · New York
- Official metro area
- Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not established; source review excludes the published figure
- Source freshness
- 9 October 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000761
The existing note deliberately withholds the unconfirmed up-to-100-MW figure. The upstream row remains attributed below, but this value is not repeated as site capacity.
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.
- Electric utility
- National Grid
- Cooling
- Closed-loop
- Community response
- Provider label: contested
- AI-use label (provider)
- mixed use
Provider notes
Energy. NYISO load queue #1754 (EKG Group LLC, 'Kenwood Tech Center') lists National Grid as the connecting utility. The 180 MW request is a whole-site study ceiling for the mixed-use development; the developer says the data center itself could use up to 100 MW and would be on its own meter.
Water. CBS6 reports the developer describes "cooling that repurposes heat for local use rather than consuming water." Recorded as closed_loop on the recirculating-circuit rule; no design document was fetched and no water figure is published.
Community. About 75 people attended an August 2026 Council of Albany Neighborhood Associations meeting on the plan. An opponent from No Kings Collective Albany raised electricity, environmental and affordability concerns. The Albany Common Council passed a resolution supporting a statewide moratorium. The developers said no formal application has been filed.
These reviews flag conflicting scope, inconsistent source text or support that has not been established. A withheld value may appear in the explanation, but is not displayed as an established field. The upstream row remains attributed under Sources.
- Land area: The source note says 76 acres is the whole mixed-use redevelopment parcel; the data center itself is described as about 5 acres of it.
What the source record says
Proposed data center inside a mixed-use redevelopment of the 76-acre former Kenwood convent / Doane Stuart School property in Albany. capacityMw IS DELIBERATELY OMITTED, and this is the point of the record: "Guild Ventures... filed an application with the New York Independent System Operator to use 180MW for the project," but the developer told CBS6 the 180 MW is "a theoretical ceiling for the entire mixed-use development" at full buildout and NOT the data center's expected use. Recording 180 as the facility's capacity would therefore be wrong; the smaller data-center-only figure reported elsewhere (up to 100 MW) was not confirmed in a source fetched in this run, so it is not recorded either. The Rockefeller Institute's tracker separately describes it as "a 180 MW data center as part of a mixed-use development" - that reading conflicts with the developer's own clarification, which is why confidence is 'reported'. The developer describes the compute component as a "boutique, edge-scale colocation center" on "approximately 5 acres" of the 76-acre parcel serving hospitals, institutions, nanotech, government services and local employers - hence aiClassification 'mixed_use'. landAcres = 76 is the whole redevelopment parcel, not the data center footprint. Confirmed absences (2026-09-09): no permits had been submitted to the City of Albany as of the fetched reporting, no investment figure is given in the fetched article, and no job counts, utility, or IDA/PILOT agreement is stated. Coordinates geocoded to the named Kenwood / Doane Stuart site in Albany, approximate.
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.
- Kenwood Commons owner asks for 180MW as part of property's pitch, now includes data center · CBS6 Albany (WRGB)
- Updates on the Cloud: More Moratoriums on Data Centers · Rockefeller Institute of Government
- Albany data center proposal faces new questions after Hochul's statewide moratorium (July 14, 2026) · CBS6 Albany (WRGB)
- Kenwood data center developers try to assuage community concerns (Aug 6, 2026) · WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- NYISO Interconnection Queue, Load Projects: #1754 'Kenwood Tech Center', EKG Group LLC, 180 MW, POI Albany-Bethlehem 115 kV Line #18, utility National Grid, status 4 · New York Independent System Operator
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID guild-ventures-kenwood-commons-albany-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
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000761
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): mixed use
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Albany, NY (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Guild Ventures
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.
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not established; source review excludes the published figure
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: National Grid
Utility as named by the provider.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Closed-loop
Provider label.
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: 2026-10-09
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.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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