DataBank LGA3 (Orangeburg Data Center Campus)

Opposition and litigation at this site

Yes. DataBank LGA3 (Orangeburg Data Center Campus) in Orangeburg, Rockland County, New York is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record, and no lawsuit has been filed so far. In July 2026 the Orangetown Planning Board unanimously issued a positive SEQRA declaration on the 77,862 sq ft Phase II expansion, which requires a full EIS.

How the community has taken it

Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: contested means active public debate is on record, with hearings, petitions, or organized opposition, without litigation.

In July 2026 the Orangetown Planning Board unanimously issued a positive SEQRA declaration on the 77,862 sq ft Phase II expansion, which requires a full EIS. Residents from New York and New Jersey, Food & Water Watch and others raised grid-strain, Lake Tappan Reservoir water-quality, diesel-generator noise and air-quality concerns. The Town Board stopped short of halting the application.

Source: Rockland County Business Journal

Power and water

DataBank lists LGA3 as 20 MW critical IT load with a '100% renewable energy source'. A planned Phase 2 would raise site usage to 45 MW.

DataBank says the site does not use evaporative cooling and takes no water from, or returns none to, the adjacent Lake Tappan reservoir. The operator's page lists air cooling at 35 kW+ per cabinet and liquid cooling at 100 kW+.

Notes on the record

DataBank's third metro-NYC facility, described by DataBank's own site (fetched 2026-09-13) as 20 MW critical IT load operational across 110,000 IT sq ft, with the full campus planned to reach 40 MW / 200,000 sq ft across 5 data halls. Data Center Frontier's trade-press coverage states different figures for the same campus (30 MW initially available with planned expansion to 45 MW, 200,000 sq ft at full build-out) -- both figures are reported here rather than reconciled; the operator's own current site is treated as the more current figure for the operational MW. A second planned facility, LGA4, is also referenced by Data Center Frontier at 45 MW but not yet named on DataBank's own site as of September 2026 -- not listed separately since it is not yet independently confirmed as a distinct, addressable site. Data Center Frontier ties the campus's HPC/AI-oriented data-hall design to New York's Empire AI Consortium initiative, but does not name a specific AI tenant or offtaker at this site -- an AI classification is omitted rather than guessed (colocation is multi-tenant and general-purpose). Distinct from the Bloomberg LP Data Center and the JPMorgan Chase Data Center, Orangeburg, both tracked separately as of September 2026 -- three separate Orangeburg, Rockland County data-center campuses. Coordinates geocoded from the street address via US Census geocoder (address-range interpolation, not a confirmed parcel), hence approximate precision.

Other sites within 30 miles

Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.

• Bloomberg LP Data Center · Orangeburg · Bloomberg LPunder 1 mile · Operating · 50 MW
• fifteenfortyseven ORNY1 (1 Ramland Road, Orangeburg) · Orangeburg · fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547), in a joint venture with Harrison Streetunder 1 mile · Operating · 18 MW
• JPMorgan Chase Data Center, Orangeburg · Orangeburg · JPMorgan Chaseunder 1 mile · Operating · Contested
• Montvale KPMG Site Data Center (3 Chestnut Ridge Road) · Montvale · S. Hekemian Group (settlement party: SHG Montvale MB VI, LLC)4 mi · Proposed · Contested
• Equinix NY13 (401 Fieldcrest Drive, Elmsford) · Elmsford · Equinix9 mi · Operating
• NYSE Data Center (Mahwah) · Mahwah · New York Stock Exchange9 mi · Operating · 2.2 MW
• TierPoint Hawthorne (11 & 17 Skyline Drive) · Hawthorne · TierPoint10 mi · Operating
• 365 Data Centers Carlstadt (NJ3) · Carlstadt · 365 Data Centers15 mi · Operating · 18 MW

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