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Empire AI Beta

Empire AI consortium (hosted by the University at Buffalo, SUNY) · Buffalo, NY · United States

Facility record

Lifecycle
OperationalSource-reported lifecycle
Location precision
approximate
Address as listed
Not published
Coordinates
42.8949, -78.8677
Serving utility, source-reported
Not established
Operational capacity, source-reported
Not published
Planned capacity, source-reported
Not published
Source record updated
2026-10-28

Source-reported capacity; not metered consumption. Review underlying documents and notes. Planned capacity may include future phases and is not added to operational capacity here. The source may use facility, grid-feed or IT capacity definitions; consult the linked documents.

Coordinate precision is a source label, not an independent parcel survey. A marker does not confirm utility territory or establish an effect on residential bills.

Reported lifecycle history

  1. Operational

    Governor Hochul announced Empire AI Beta fully online.

    Underlying source

Source notes

New York State-funded public AI supercomputer, the second phase (Beta) of the Empire AI consortium. UB states it is "housed at the Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences on the medical campus"; coordinates are geocoded to that building on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, hence approximate. Described as "a $40 million NVIDIA-powered supercomputer" delivering "an 11-fold increase in AI training capacity, a 40-fold boost in AI inference and an 8-fold expansion in data storage" versus Alpha. As of 2026-09-09, none of the three retrieved sources states a GPU count, an IT load or any MW figure, a water/cooling detail, an acreage, or a job count for Beta. Empire AI overall is backed by "over $500 million in public and private funding"; that is consortium-wide, not this site, so it is not recorded as an investment figure. The Alpha phase (launched 2024, Simons Foundation gift) is also housed at UB and is the predecessor system on the same campus, not a separate site. The permanent Gamma facility is tracked separately as Empire AI Gamma as of September 2026. The governor's office states that the consortium's funding includes "up to $340 million in state capital funding"; that is a consortium-wide ceiling covering Empire AI statewide, not attributable to this phase or site, so it is not recorded and not counted against both the Beta and Gamma records. The $40 million Beta award, approved by the Empire State Development board, is recorded as the investment figure. It is a state grant to a public research consortium rather than an incentive to a company, so no subsidy entry is recorded.

Sources and provenance

Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.

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