Greenidge Generation

Opposition and litigation at this site

Yes. Greenidge Generation in Dresden, Yates County, New York is or has been the subject of litigation over its siting, permitting, or operation. Three years of litigation between NYSDEC and Greenidge over the Title V air permit renewal (denied 2022, overturned by state Supreme Court November 2024) ended in a November 2025 settlement.

How the community has taken it

Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: in litigation means the facility is or has been the subject of a lawsuit related to its siting, permitting, or operation.

Three years of litigation between NYSDEC and Greenidge over the Title V air permit renewal (denied 2022, overturned by state Supreme Court November 2024) ended in a November 2025 settlement. Separately, Seneca Lake Guardian filed suit in 2023 seeking to shut the station, and the facility has faced Clean Water Act claims over thermal discharge to Seneca Lake. Advocates criticised the settlement as too lenient.

Source: Rochester Beacon

Power and water

Converted coal-then-gas power plant on the western shore of Seneca Lake; nameplate capacity is reported as both 106 MW and 107 MW (DEC-permitted) across sources, recorded here as 106 MW nameplate, with the 107 MW DEC-permitted figure noted as a close, contested alternative rather than resolved to one number.

Notes on the record

590 Plant Road, Dresden, NY, the flagship New York crypto-mining regulatory case, having driven the state's 2022 moratorium law and a multi-year DEC Title V air-permit fight (DEC denial 2022, upheld by a DEC administrative decision in May 2024, then overturned by the state Supreme Court in November 2024). Resolved via a DEC settlement agreement dated November 2025: DEC will issue a Title V permit modification, and Greenidge commits to a 44% reduction in permitted GHG emissions (>282,000 tons CO2e/year) and a minimum 25% reduction in actual emissions, with no emissions increase allowed during the renewed permit term. The permit modification still requires a public comment period before DEC issues a final decision, so this should be read as resolved-in-principle, not fully closed. Coordinates are a town-level geocode of the Dresden address, not a confirmed parcel pin. Two values are not recorded, both for sourcing reasons. (1) Water: the 139 MGD withdrawal figure is an advocacy-group spokesperson's characterisation of a permit, not the permit; and it describes the power plant's once-through lake cooling, which the cooling-type options (evaporative/air-cooled/closed-loop/hybrid) cannot express and which is not the data hall's heat rejection. (2) Jobs: '40 to 50 full-time jobs' is a range attributed to the company second-hand. The Greenidge crypto-mining operation runs behind the meter at the same Torrey/Dresden power plant covered by the Yates County IDA PILOT agreements (same source as for the Greenidge Generating Station record). The Yates County IDA PILOT agreements totalling $146,150 paid across the three taxing jurisdictions in 2020 cover the power plant and its 4.6-mile gas pipeline, and are recorded on the Greenidge Generating Station record. They are not duplicated onto this crypto-mining record, which runs behind the meter at the same Torrey/Dresden site, so the abatement is not counted twice.

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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.

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