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Ranalli Lysander Data Center

Lysander, Onondaga County, New York

ProposedOpposedAI likelyRecord updated September 9, 2026

Ranalli Lysander Data Center is a proposed data center in Lysander, New York (Onondaga County), operated by Ranalli. The public record puts it at 300 MW planned, 120 acres. It faces documented, organized local opposition. The record for this site rests on a single unverified source and should be read that way.

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Facility record

Proposed

Operator
Ranalli
Facility type
Data center, AI use likely
Location
Lysander, Onondaga County, NY
Coordinates
43.1700, -76.3900
Power capacity
300 MW planned
Land
120 acres
Investment
Not established from a public source
Announced
Not established from a public source
Utility
National Grid
Power source
Grid
Cooling
Not established from a public source
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
Opposed
Source confidence
Rumored: a single unverified source

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. 2026
    Proposed
    Early-stage hyperscale data center proposal on ~120 acres in Lysander, Onondaga County; interconnection request up to 300 MW Source: Cleanview

Opposition and litigation at this site

Yes. Organized local opposition to Ranalli Lysander Data Center in Lysander, Onondaga County, New York is documented in the public record, without a lawsuit on file in the sources we track. Gov.

How the community has taken it

Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: opposed means documented, organized local opposition is the dominant signal on record.

Gov. Hochul's July 14, 2026 executive order imposes a one-year statewide freeze on hyperscale (>50MW) data-center permits and explicitly names the Lysander proposal as caught by it (its ~300MW interconnection request exceeds the threshold); this followed months of residents packing town meetings over electric demand.

Source

Power and water

Ranalli Super DC, LLC filed a NYISO grid-interconnection request in May 2025 for 300 MW; no on-site generation is described in the sources.

Notes on the record

Early-stage proposal on ~120 acres in Lysander, Onondaga County, with a grid interconnection request of up to 300 MW. Very early / single-source → confidence rumored. Coordinates are the Lysander area centroid. NO STATUS CHANGE, the status moved AWAY from advancing, not toward it. Lysander adopted a six-month data-center moratorium on 2026-05-07 after organised opposition, so the project remains proposed with no local approval. Community reception is documented as opposition ('Citizens Against Lysander Data Center'); the record already carries a community value so I have not proposed overwriting it. Note the acreage differs between sources (124 acres in the Eagle News piece, 120 in Rockefeller), not resolved, and landAcres is already populated.

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.

  • Cooling method and water use
  • Tax abatements or other public subsidy
  • Permanent jobs promised
Which document closes each gap
Cooling method and water use
The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
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.

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Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Ranalli Lysander Data Center in Lysander?

Yes. Organized local opposition to Ranalli Lysander Data Center in Lysander, Onondaga County, New York is documented in the public record, without a lawsuit on file in the sources we track. Gov.

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Ranalli Lysander Data Center?

No lawsuit over Ranalli Lysander Data Center 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 Ranalli Lysander Data Center use?

No water withdrawal figure for Ranalli Lysander Data Center is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.

Who operates Ranalli Lysander Data Center, and how big is it?

Ranalli is the operator on record. Capacity on record is 300 MW. The site is recorded at 120 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Ranalli Lysander Data Center," updated September 9, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/ranalli-lysander-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/ranalli-lysander-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. 1.Ranalli Lysander Data Center · Cleanview · retrieved July 7, 2026
  2. 2.HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD · retrieved July 23, 2026
  3. 3.Yahoo News · retrieved July 26, 2026
  4. 4.Possible massive data center in Lysander faces community opposition, town attorney to draft moratorium · Eagle News Online / Baldwinsville Messenger · retrieved September 9, 2026

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