North Country Collocation Services Massena Data Center (former Reynolds site)

Timeline from the record

Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.

1. May 2026

   Proposed
   Massena Town Planning Board heard the proposal for the first time on May 21, 2026 and took no action. Source: North Country Public Radio

Opposition and litigation at this site

Yes. North Country Collocation Services Massena Data Center (former Reynolds site) in Massena, St. Lawrence County, New York is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record, and no lawsuit has been filed so far. NCPR reports "about 80 people" attended the May 21, 2026 planning board meeting, that "some shouted their opposition and questions from the audience," and quotes a resident of Akwesasne (the Mohawk territory less than two miles from the site) asking for more community engagement.

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.

NCPR reports "about 80 people" attended the May 21, 2026 planning board meeting, that "some shouted their opposition and questions from the audience," and quotes a resident of Akwesasne (the Mohawk territory less than two miles from the site) asking for more community engagement. The meeting was not a public hearing; the board chair said a public hearing will follow and "the process could take months." A residents' group, Massena Data Center Watch, campaigns against the project.

Source: North Country Public Radio

Notes on the record

⚠️ ADJUDICATION REQUIRED - POSSIBLE OVERLAP WITH AN EXISTING ROW. NCPR states "the facility would include three buildings totaling nearly 1.5 million square feet at the former Reynolds site, about eight miles outside of the village of Massena and near the bridge to Canada. The operation would consume 635 megawatts of power. That equates to roughly 70% of the power produced at the Moses-Saunders Power Dam. The developer, North Country Collocation Services, or NCCS, presented its plan to the board." The former Reynolds Metals plant is the same industrial complex as the 'Alcoa East' site that the existing crypto_mining row coinmint-massena-ny sits on (that row is at 44.9777, -74.7327), and trade press frames this as NYDIG - the current owner of that mining operation - seeking to EXPAND at the Massena site. I have recorded it as a separate proposed data_center because the three buildings, the 635 MW load and the planning-board proceeding are a distinct new project with a distinct developer entity, but if the maintainer prefers one row per site this should be folded into coinmint-massena-ny instead. Coordinates are an approximate placement on that industrial complex derived from the source's description, NOT a surveyed parcel. Confirmed absences (2026-09-09): the fetched sources state no investment figure, no job counts, no acreage, no water-use figure, no utility, and no subsidy or IDA agreement. NOT recorded because unverified in this run: reporting elsewhere describes 316 diesel generators on site and a zoning question referred to the Zoning Board of Appeals over whether a large-scale data center is a permitted use in the industrial zone.

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.

• Coinmint (Massena East / former Alcoa Smelter) · Massena · Coinmintunder 1 mile · Operating · 435 MW

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