Where things stand: the review is at its earliest stage
No determination of significance has been made. Under SEQR, that determination is the fork in the road — a Positive Declaration forces a full Environmental Impact Statement, a deep public study; a Negative Declaration ends the deep review. Neither has happened. The window to demand the full study is open right now. How to weigh in →
The June 25 meeting was noticed with the wrong date — then quietly corrected hours before
The agenda first went up dated "June 26" — which was a Friday — then was swapped to June 25 with a room added about 90 minutes later. The substance of the meeting lived only inside the PDF, not as searchable text on the page. By one resident's account, only about a dozen people attended. We preserved both agenda versions and the RSS timestamps. See the document trail →
Planning Board takes up the data center — consultants and a "lead agency"
The board discussed hiring consultants and choosing a lead agency for the environmental review. There was no vote and no final site plan, and the board has said multiple public hearings are still required. By one resident's account, the project was then passed toward the Zoning Board — a detail from a resident's public post, not yet the official record. The verbatim record →
A statewide one-year data-center pause passes the Legislature
The Responsible Data Center Development Act — a one-year pause on large new data centers (over 20 MW) — passed both houses of the New York Legislature and now awaits Governor Hochul's signature. It is not yet law. Ask her to sign it →
NYDIG / NCCS presents the expansion to the Planning Board
The company laid out a plan to "expand and modernize" the campus to roughly 635 MW, growing to about 200 employees with up to 2,000 construction jobs. The chair announced there would be no vote that night and that there was not even a formal site plan submission yet. These are the company's statements, quoted so the community can hold them to their word. Read the verbatim minutes →
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