This is a source-attributed discovery row. It can help you find a place and its citations; it is not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is distinct or currently operating.
Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Empire AI consortium (hosted by the University at Buffalo, SUNY)
- Address and locality
- Buffalo · Erie County · New York
- Lifecycle status
- reported under construction
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 10 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000564
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
- 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 1.33.0, 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.
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