North Country Collocation Services Massena Data Center (former Reynolds site)

Facility record

Lifecycle

ProposedSource-reported lifecycle

Location precision

approximate

Address as listed

Not published

Coordinates

44.979, -74.73

Serving utility, source-reported

Not established

Operational capacity, source-reported

Not published

Planned capacity, source-reported

635 MW

Source record updated

2026-10-09

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. 2026-05Proposed

   Massena Town Planning Board heard the proposal for the first time on May 21, 2026 and took no action.

   Underlying source

Source notes

Possible overlap with an existing record. NCPR states "the facility would include three buildings totaling nearly 1.5 million square feet at the former Reynolds site, about eight miles outside of the village of Massena and near the bridge to Canada. The operation would consume 635 megawatts of power. That equates to roughly 70% of the power produced at the Moses-Saunders Power Dam. The developer, North Country Collocation Services, or NCCS, presented its plan to the board." The former Reynolds Metals plant is the same industrial complex as the 'Alcoa East' site that the existing Coinmint (Massena East / former Alcoa Smelter) crypto-mining record sits on (that record is at 44.9777, -74.7327), and NCPR (October 7, 2026) reports that NYDIG and its affiliate NCCS want to build the data center, captioning a photo of the former Alcoa East site as "now being acquired by NYDIG". It is recorded as a separate proposed data center because the three buildings, the 635 MW load and the planning-board proceeding are a distinct new project with a distinct developer entity. Coordinates are an approximate placement on that industrial complex derived from the source's description, not a surveyed parcel. As of 2026-09-09, the sources retrieved stated no investment figure, no job counts, no acreage, no water-use figure, no utility, and no subsidy or IDA agreement. A North Country Public Radio report of October 7, 2026 gives the company's figures of 200 full-time jobs and an estimated 2,000 construction jobs. Reporting elsewhere describes 316 diesel generators on site and a zoning question referred to the Zoning Board of Appeals over whether a large-scale data center is a permitted use in the industrial zone; neither is recorded because, as of September 2026, neither had been verified.

Sources and provenance

• Massena Town Planning Board takes no action at data center meeting · source retrieved 2026-09-09
• Updates on the Cloud: More Moratoriums on Data Centers · source retrieved 2026-09-09
• NY hit pause on large data centers. A massive project in Massena may be exempt (Oct 7, 2026) · source retrieved 2026-10-09

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