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Reported geography
Source-reported location for North Country Collocation Services Massena Data Center (former Reynolds site).
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- North Country Collocation Services (NCCS)
- Address and locality
- Massena · St. Lawrence County · New York
- Official metro area
- Outside an official metropolitan boundary
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 635 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 9 October 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001030
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
- Announced jobs
- 200 permanent · 2,000 construction
- Community response
- Provider label: contested
- AI-use label (provider)
- likely
Provider notes
Water. NCPR (Oct 7, 2026): 'NCCS says no local water will be used for cooling because it plans a fully sealed loop system.' Recorded as closed_loop on the recirculating-circuit rule. No water withdrawal or consumption figure is published.
Community. NCPR reports "about 80 people" attended the May 21, 2026 planning board meeting, that "some shouted their opposition and questions from the audience," and quotes a resident of Akwesasne (the Mohawk territory less than two miles from the site) asking for more community engagement. The meeting was not a public hearing; the board chair said a public hearing will follow and "the process could take months." A residents' group, Massena Data Center Watch, campaigns against the project.
What the source record says
⚠️ ADJUDICATION REQUIRED - POSSIBLE OVERLAP WITH AN EXISTING ROW. NCPR states "the facility would include three buildings totaling nearly 1.5 million square feet at the former Reynolds site, about eight miles outside of the village of Massena and near the bridge to Canada. The operation would consume 635 megawatts of power. That equates to roughly 70% of the power produced at the Moses-Saunders Power Dam. The developer, North Country Collocation Services, or NCCS, presented its plan to the board." The former Reynolds Metals plant is the same industrial complex as the 'Alcoa East' site that the existing crypto_mining row coinmint-massena-ny sits on (that row is at 44.9777, -74.7327), and trade press frames this as NYDIG - the current owner of that mining operation - seeking to EXPAND at the Massena site. I have recorded it as a separate proposed data_center because the three buildings, the 635 MW load and the planning-board proceeding are a distinct new project with a distinct developer entity, but if the maintainer prefers one row per site this should be folded into coinmint-massena-ny instead. Coordinates are an approximate placement on that industrial complex derived from the source's description, NOT a surveyed parcel. Confirmed absences (2026-09-09): the fetched sources state no investment figure, no job counts, no acreage, no water-use figure, no utility, and no subsidy or IDA agreement. NOT recorded because unverified in this run: reporting elsewhere describes 316 diesel generators on site and a zoning question referred to the Zoning Board of Appeals over whether a large-scale data center is a permitted use in the industrial zone.
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
- 2026-05 · source-reported proposed
Massena Town Planning Board heard the proposal for the first time on May 21, 2026 and took no action.
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.
- Massena Town Planning Board takes no action at data center meeting · North Country Public Radio
- Updates on the Cloud: More Moratoriums on Data Centers · Rockefeller Institute of Government
- NY hit pause on large data centers. A massive project in Massena may be exempt (Oct 7, 2026) · North Country Public Radio
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID nccs-massena-reynolds-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-001030
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): likely
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Massena, NY · St. Lawrence (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: North Country Collocation Services (NCCS)
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.
- Status history: 2026-05 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 635 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Closed-loop
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced jobs: 200 permanent · 2,000 construction
Announced figures; whether they cover one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- 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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