Data Center Registry
Kenwood Commons Technology Campus
Albany, Albany County, New York
Kenwood Commons Technology Campus is a proposed data center in Albany, New York (Albany County), operated by Guild Ventures. The public record puts it at 76 acres.
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Facility record
Proposed
- Operator
- Guild Ventures
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use mixed
- Location
- Albany, Albany County, NY
- Coordinates
- 42.6225, -73.7601 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- Land
- 76 acres
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- Not established from a public source
- Utility
- Not established from a public source
- Cooling
- Closed loop
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- Not established from a public source
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- No reception on record
- Source confidence
- Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of September 9, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Kenwood Commons Technology Campus in Albany, Albany County, New York appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
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Power and water
CBS6 reports the developer describes "cooling that repurposes heat for local use rather than consuming water." Recorded as closed_loop on the recirculating-circuit rule; no design document was fetched and no water figure is published.
Notes on the record
Proposed data center inside a mixed-use redevelopment of the 76-acre former Kenwood convent / Doane Stuart School property in Albany. capacityMw IS DELIBERATELY OMITTED, and this is the point of the record: "Guild Ventures... filed an application with the New York Independent System Operator to use 180MW for the project," but the developer told CBS6 the 180 MW is "a theoretical ceiling for the entire mixed-use development" at full buildout and NOT the data center's expected use. Recording 180 as the facility's capacity would therefore be wrong; the smaller data-center-only figure reported elsewhere (up to 100 MW) was not confirmed in a source fetched in this run, so it is not recorded either. The Rockefeller Institute's tracker separately describes it as "a 180 MW data center as part of a mixed-use development" - that reading conflicts with the developer's own clarification, which is why confidence is 'reported'. The developer describes the compute component as a "boutique, edge-scale colocation center" on "approximately 5 acres" of the 76-acre parcel serving hospitals, institutions, nanotech, government services and local employers - hence aiClassification 'mixed_use'. landAcres = 76 is the whole redevelopment parcel, not the data center footprint. Confirmed absences (2026-09-09): no permits had been submitted to the City of Albany as of the fetched reporting, no investment figure is given in the fetched article, and no job counts, utility, or IDA/PILOT agreement is stated. Coordinates geocoded to the named Kenwood / Doane Stuart site in Albany, approximate.
What the record does not establish, and the document that would
In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.
- Power capacity in megawatts
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Permanent jobs promised
- How the community has received it
- Which utility serves it
Which document closes each gap
- Power capacity in megawatts
- The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
- How the community has received it
- Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.
- Which utility serves it
- The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.
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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.
- Lumen Albany 4 · Albany · Lumen Technologies8 mi · Operating
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Kenwood Commons Technology Campus in Albany?
Nothing on record as of September 9, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Kenwood Commons Technology Campus in Albany, Albany County, New York appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Kenwood Commons Technology Campus?
No lawsuit over Kenwood Commons Technology Campus appears in the record we track as of September 9, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.
How much water does Kenwood Commons Technology Campus use?
No water withdrawal figure for Kenwood Commons Technology Campus is on record here. Cooling is recorded as closed_loop, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Kenwood Commons Technology Campus, and how big is it?
Guild Ventures is the operator on record. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 76 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Kenwood Commons Technology Campus," updated September 9, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/guild-ventures-kenwood-commons-albany-ny.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/guild-ventures-kenwood-commons-albany-ny, retrieved September 14, 2026.
Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.
Sources for this record
As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.
- 1.Kenwood Commons owner asks for 180MW as part of property's pitch, now includes data center · CBS6 Albany (WRGB) · retrieved September 9, 2026
- 2.Updates on the Cloud: More Moratoriums on Data Centers · Rockefeller Institute of Government · retrieved September 9, 2026
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