New York data centers: what the public record shows.

These notes name selected records, say which kinds of public evidence were checked and show what remains missing. They do not add anything to the published counts.

• economic development incentives — Checked
  • Empire State Development and NYSERDA award databases were not searched.
  • No other county or city IDA project library was opened; only GCEDC was worked.
  • The Department of Taxation and Finance publishes no Internet data center certificate list to cross-check.

  Selected records

  • Public Hearing Set for STREAM US Data Centers Project · Genesee County Economic Development Center
  • Executive Order No. 62 - Establishing a Temporary Moratorium on Data Centers in New York · Office of the Governor of New York State
  • TSB-M-00(7)S - Sales and Use Tax Exemptions for Operators of Internet Data Centers (Web Hosting) · New York State Department of Taxation and Finance
• utility commission large load — Partly checked
  • The NYISO large load interconnection queue itself was not retrieved, so none of the 48 queued projects could be tied to a named site.
  • Individual party comments filed in Case 26-E-0045 were not read, and the DPS document search system was not worked project by project.
  • No utility large-load tariff filing or electric service agreement was retrieved.

  Selected records

  • Case 26-E-0045 - Order Instituting Proceeding and Soliciting Comments (Interconnection Reforms for Large Loads) · New York State Public Service Commission
  • Fortistar: Comments due on Fortistar North Tonawanda and Digihost International petition to transfer interest in a 55-megawatt natural gas-fired cogeneration facility · New York State Department of Public Service
• environmental construction permits — Checked
  • The DEC air permit (DART) database was not searched for data center emergency generator permits.
  • SPDES and stormwater construction general permit notices were not searched.
  • No municipal building or grading permit was retrieved for any research lead.

  Selected records

  • STREAM U.S. Data Centers LLC - SEQR Development Application, Section II Project Description (2/18/2026) · Genesee County Economic Development Center
  • Proposed Cleanup - Riverview Innovation & Technology Campus Site (Tonawanda), site #C915353 · New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
  • Brownfield Applications - The Remington Sites (German Flatts) Comment Deadline · New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
• municipal planning assessor gis — Checked
  • No town or county planning file naming an individual data center applicant was located.
  • The City of Niagara Falls council agenda and the June 2026 settlement and rezoning documents were not yet reviewed directly.
  • Town of Alabama, Town of Tonawanda, Town of Massena, City of Albany and Village of Ilion planning files were not retrieved.
  • No county assessor system was worked; the statewide parcel layer alone could not tie a parcel to an operator.

  Selected records

  • Town of Lysander - Data Center Moratorium Updates (Local Law #4 of 2026) · Town of Lysander, Office of the Supervisor
  • Onondaga County Planning Board draft meeting minutes, June 3, 2026 · Onondaga County Planning Board
  • Onondaga County Planning Board meeting agenda, March 11, 2026 · Onondaga County Planning Board
• tax abatement development agreements — Partly checked
  • No executed PILOT, host community benefit or development agreement was opened; only the IDA's summary of proposed terms.
  • The GCEDC initial resolution PDF is a scanned image and yielded no extractable text.
  • The 88-page Niagara Falls settlement agreement was not located.
  • No other county IDA abatement file was searched.

  Selected records

  • GCEDC Opportunity Summary - STREAM U.S. Data Centers, LLC (created 1/30/2026) · Genesee County Economic Development Center
• operator disclosures — Checked
  • Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Oracle and Apple location pages were not checked for New York sites.
  • Digital Realty, CoreSite, Equinix, Sabey, TierPoint, Netrality, DataBank and Lumen New York facility pages were not yet reviewed directly.
  • The H5 Data Centers Buffalo page returned a redirect that was not followed.

  Selected records

  • BBCMS Mortgage Trust 2023-C22 Free Writing Prospectus (60 Hudson Street collateral) · U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR)
  • Governor Hochul Announces Empire AI Beta Fully Online as Federal Government Takes Inspiration From New York · Office of the Governor of New York State
• open datasets directories — Checked
  • Eighteen Compute Atlas New York records were read but not individually worked into research leads.
  • No commercial directory (Data Center Map, Baxtel, datacenters.com, Cloudscene, PeeringDB) was used.

  Selected records

  • Compute Atlas state extract for New York (snapshot 71df145) · Compute Atlas
• historical closures withdrawals names — Checked
  • The 2022 DEC Title V denial for Greenidge was retrieved, but the later Greenidge agreement referenced by DEC in November 2025 was not.
  • No archived or withdrawn municipal application file was retrieved for any research lead.
  • Earlier New York closures and demolitions of data centers were not searched at all.

  Selected records

  • Statement Regarding STREAM U.S. Data Centers (rescission of the Consistency Determination and Final Resolution) · Genesee County Economic Development Center
• news and other discovery — Partly checked
  • Six news sources were recorded from search results without being opened.
  • No advocacy or research tracker (for example the Rockefeller Institute moratorium tracker) was opened, although it appeared repeatedly in results.

  Selected records

  • Data center project at former Tonawanda Coke site 'on hold' · Buffalo Toronto Public Media
  • 250,000-Square-Foot AI Data Center Planned for Ilion's Remington Site C · WKTV
  • Possible massive data center in Lysander faces community opposition, town attorney to draft moratorium · Eagle News Online / Baldwinsville Messenger