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Frontier Science

4033 Maple Road · Amherst, Erie County, NY

Source: OpenStreetMap

Frontier Science is a mapped data center in Erie County, NY.

Reporting by · Updated Jun 12, 2026

Real parent
Operator
Utility
Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.
Grid
NYIS
Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprimary source

Overview

source: link

data center

The grid behind this site, right now

source: NYISO · gridstatus
Clean right now
30%
Fossil right now
65%
Grid operator
NYISO
  • Natural Gas64.6%
  • Hydro13.8%
  • Nuclear12.8%
  • Other4.9%
  • Wind3.8%

Real-time generation mix for the NYISO grid this site draws from, as of Jul 15, 2026, 5:20 PM. ISO-wide, not this facility's own metering. Source: gridstatus.

Grid & water — why here

source: HIFLD · EPA
Nearest substation
0.6 mi
Tap139852 · 115 kV
Transmission line
0.6 mi
230 kV line
Municipal water
Served
Ecwa Amherst

The closest existing grid infrastructure and the municipal water system this location sits in — the same constraints the buildout model screens on (it won't site a campus more than ~2 km from a substation or ~5 km from municipal water). Distances are straight-line to public HIFLD/EPA features, not a metered connection.

In the news

source: GDELT

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

No per-deal tax break is linked to this site yet. No state discloses the recipient of a data-center abatement at the facility level, so per-site deals are rare in the public record. If you have a development agreement or board resolution for this site, send it to us.

Water use

No public record of this facility's water use. We check state withdrawal reporting for self-supplied sites; municipally supplied sites only become visible through a public-records request to the local water utility — a per-facility request tool is coming. If you have a utility document for this site, send it to us.

EPA permits & violations

source: EPA ECHO

No reported violations as of last sync.

Air quality near this site

source: AirNow
52
PM2.5
Moderate
41
O3
Good

Air Quality Index from the nearest AirNow reporting area (Western New York Region), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.

Who lives nearby

source: Census ACS 2023
Median household income
$60.3K
People of color
30%
Below poverty
9%
Tract population
4,259

Demographics of the census tract this facility sits in (American Community Survey 5-year estimates). Environmental-justice context for who bears the local impacts.

Nearest school

source: HIFLD / NCES

The nearest public school, Sweet Home Middle School in Amherst, is 1,050 ft from this site (768 students).

Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).

Hearings timeline

No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.

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