Empire AI Gamma
Empire AI consortium (hosted by the University at Buffalo, SUNY) · Buffalo, NY · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- Under constructionSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- Not published
- Coordinates
- 42.8864, -78.8784
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Not established
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Source record updated
- 2026-09-10
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
No dated operational history is established in this record. Publication, discovery and source-update dates are not opening dates.
Source notes
Empire AI's permanent, full-scale computing facility. Both cited 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 the under-construction status, but the record is marked reported because neither cited 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, and not a parcel. As of 2026-09-09, neither source states an MW capacity, a dedicated investment figure for Gamma specifically, an acreage, a job count, or a site-level subsidy agreement. This is the same consortium-wide state capital commitment noted on the Empire AI Beta record -- total backing over $500M incl. private/philanthropic funds, not phase-specific. The cited article names no Gamma-specific dollar figure. The $340m Empire AI consortium-wide state capital commitment is statewide, not Gamma-specific, and the cited source names no Gamma-specific dollar figure. It is not recorded as a site-level subsidy entry, to avoid counting the same state money against two facility records.
Sources and provenance
- Governor Hochul Announces Empire AI Beta Fully Online as Federal Government Takes Inspiration From New York to Launch State and Regional AI Infrastructure Hubs · source retrieved 2026-09-09
- Empire AI Beta, housed at UB, now fully online · source retrieved 2026-09-09
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.