New York index · last changed 12 September 2026
New York research coverage.
See the available records, draft source-family audit and remaining research gaps. A state page is not a complete inventory of its data centers.
Research coverage
Research draft available; independent coverage review pending
Research draft available. Candidate findings and statewide coverage await independent review.
Draft source attempts: 2026-09-12 through 2026-09-12. These are draft audit dates, not a new independent check.
0 reviewed project/campus records; 0 reviewed facility/building records; 0 uncounted records. Inventories are non-additive.
Draft source-family roster and gaps
- economic development incentives — searched
Source references: NY-S0001, NY-S0005, NY-S0006
- 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.
- utility commission large load — searched_partial
Source references: NY-S0007, NY-S0008
- 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.
- environmental construction permits — searched
Source references: NY-S0003, NY-S0009, NY-S0010, NY-S0011, NY-S0012
- 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 candidate.
- municipal planning assessor gis — searched
Source references: NY-S0013, NY-S0014, NY-S0015, NY-S0016, NY-S0017
- 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 opened.
- 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.
- tax abatement development agreements — searched_partial
Source references: NY-S0002
- 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.
- operator disclosures — searched
Source references: NY-S0018, NY-S0019, NY-S0020, NY-S0030
- 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 opened.
- The H5 Data Centers Buffalo page returned a redirect that was not followed.
- open datasets directories — searched
Source references: NY-S0021
- Eighteen Compute Atlas New York records were read but not individually worked into candidates.
- No commercial directory (Data Center Map, Baxtel, datacenters.com, Cloudscene, PeeringDB) was used.
- historical closures withdrawals names — searched
Source references: NY-S0004, NY-S0022
- 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 candidate.
- Earlier New York closures and demolitions of data centers were not searched at all.
- news and other discovery — searched_partial
Source references: NY-S0023, NY-S0024, NY-S0025, NY-S0026, NY-S0027, NY-S0028
- 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.
No reviewed records published. This does not mean there are no data centers in this state.