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

Power and water

NCPR (Oct 7, 2026): 'NCCS says no local water will be used for cooling the data center because they're designing a fully sealed loop system.' Recorded as closed-loop because the circuit recirculates. No water withdrawal or consumption figure is published.

Notes on the record

Possible overlap with an existing record. 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 Coinmint (Massena East / former Alcoa Smelter) crypto-mining record sits on (that record is at 44.9777, -74.7327), and NCPR (October 7, 2026) reports that NYDIG and its affiliate NCCS want to build the data center, captioning a photo of the former Alcoa East site as "now being acquired by NYDIG". It is recorded 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. Coordinates are an approximate placement on that industrial complex derived from the source's description, not a surveyed parcel. As of 2026-09-09, the sources retrieved stated no investment figure, no job counts, no acreage, no water-use figure, no utility, and no subsidy or IDA agreement. A North Country Public Radio report of October 7, 2026 gives the company's figures of 200 full-time jobs and an estimated 2,000 construction jobs. 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; neither is recorded because, as of September 2026, neither had been verified.

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
• ZeroC / Petawatt Holdings Data Center Site (417 County Route 42) · Massena · ZeroC Data Centers LLC (majority-owned by Petawatt Holdings, Inc.)7 mi · Proposed · 200 MW
• Arsenal Data Site (Arconic Massena Operations) · Massena · Arconic Corporation (Apollo-owned)8 mi · Proposed · 933 MW
• Pontoon Bridge Road Data Center (proposed) · Massena · American Data Center Partners LLC9 mi · Proposed

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