New York

The largest footprint in New York belongs to Digital Realty Trust, Inc., behind 3 tracked facilities. Prime Data Centers, Blockfusion USA Inc., and Telehouse round out the most active operators in the state. Many of these sites are filed under shell or project names rather than the parent's — our operator column resolves them back to the real corporate parent wherever the chain is documented.

Geographically, the buildout clusters: Niagara County leads New York with 10 facilities and a composite risk score of 15/100. New York County and Albany County follow. Our county risk score weights project exposure (40%), power demand (30%), water draw (15%), and land footprint (15%); the full breakdown is shown on each county page.

New York is not done growing. 15 facilities are in the pipeline — proposed, permitted, or under construction — which is where residents still have a say at zoning hearings and in rate cases. Each pending project is a decision about land, water, electricity prices, and tax revenue that hasn't been finalized.

We also surface the accountability trail: 8 state bills mentioning data centers and 6 recent news items are tracked for New York below, pulled from LegiScan and GDELT and refreshed automatically. Legislation is linked to the counties and operators it names; news is classified by community sentiment.

Data-center policy watch: New York's legislature passed the Responsible Data Center Development Act in June 2026 — a first-in-the-nation one-year pause on new permits for data centers of 20 MW or more — and it awaits the governor's decision.