Project dossier · Alabama (Genesee County), New York

Project Double Reed (Stream US Data Centers at STAMP) Awaiting decision

Stream US Data Centers proposes a $19.46 billion, three-building, roughly 600 MW data center campus at the STAMP site in the Town of Alabama, Genesee County. The Town Planning Board reviewed site-plan conditions (annual noise monitoring, heat-island mitigation, a dedicated code enforcement officer) and was expected to vote July 6, but both July meetings were cancelled after GCEDC, the SEQRA lead agency, could not complete environmental-review documentation; the next scheduled Planning Board meeting was Aug 3, 2026. GCEDC's CEO says the project keeps moving unless New York's passed-but-unsigned statewide data center moratorium becomes law.

Key facts

Operator: Stream Data Centers
Filing LLC: Stream US Data Centers LLC
Size: 600 MW
Location: Alabama (Genesee County), New York
Hearing: 2026-08-03
Stage today: Awaiting decision

Source
read 2026-08-14

What to do next

Next step: Heard 2026-08-03; decision pending. Call the board clerk for the vote date and get on the notification list.

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What has happened so far (13 events)

2025-02-03hearing
A GCEDC public hearing was held February 3, 2025 on the original Stream/Project Double Reed incentive proposal at STAMP, ahead of staff bringing a recommendation to the STAMP committee and full board. · source
2025-03-06vote
The GCEDC Board of Directors approved the original 900,000-square-foot, 250-megawatt Project Double Reed data center plan for Stream U.S. Data Centers at STAMP on March 6, 2025. · source
2025-07-13lawsuit
The Tonawanda Seneca Nation and the Sierra Club filed suit in New York State Supreme Court alleging GCEDC violated SEQRA by awarding $472 million in subsidies to Stream U.S. Data Centers without conducting a full environmental review or requiring detailed project plans. · source
2025-09-18withdrawal
The GCEDC board voted to withdraw the State Environmental Quality Review determination for the approved 900,000-square-foot project after Stream said it had identified an opportunity to secure additional capacity and increase the project's scale, with Stream to submit an amended, larger application; a Tonawanda Seneca chief called the withdrawal a win. · source
2026-02-18filing
Stream submitted a revised GCEDC SEQR application dated February 18, 2026 increasing the campus to a $19.46 billion, roughly 500 MW, 2.2 million-square-foot three-building project on about 90 acres, with roughly 125 permanent jobs. · source
2026-03-31hearing
At a March 31, 2026 meeting, a Wendel Companies engineer walked the Town of Alabama Planning Board through the Stream site plan (water, sanitary sewer, noise studies, generators, roads, emergency services, parking); the board made no decisions and scheduled a public hearing for April 20 at the Alabama Fire Department. · source
2026-05-04hearing
The Alabama Planning Board held a public hearing on the $19.46 billion Stream project at the Alabama Fire Hall with almost 75 speakers, a majority opposed over noise, water, wetlands and impacts near the Tonawanda Seneca Nation, while some trades union representatives supported it; Stream design manager Colm Curran presented the project. · source
2026-06-02hearing
On June 2, 2026, Wendel Companies engineers updated the Alabama Planning Board on draft site-plan conditions dated May 26, 2026 covering annual noise readings, construction traffic routes, a heat-island memorandum, stormwater, grading, utilities and safety; the board chair said there was no deadline for a decision. · source
2026-06-16hearing
Alabama Planning Board met for over 3.5 hours on the Stream site plan amid resident opposition; conditions discussed included lifetime annual noise monitoring and a one-year construction-start deadline, with a site-plan approval vote expected July 6. · source
2026-07-02announcement
Town supervisor announced the July 6 and July 20 Planning Board meetings were cancelled - GCEDC could not complete SEQRA documentation in time - with the next regular meeting set for Aug 3, 2026. · source
2026-07-14lawsuit
The Tonawanda Seneca Nation and the Sierra Club filed a lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court seeking to invalidate the zoning agreement between the Town of Alabama and the GCEDC that underpins development at the STAMP industrial park. · source
2026-07-14ruling
Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order on July 14, 2026 establishing New York's first statewide moratorium of up to one year, pausing the Department of Environmental Conservation from issuing discretionary environmental permits for new hyperscale data centers while the state builds a regulatory framework and Community Investment Framework. · source
2026-07-29coverage
On July 29, 2026 Governor Hochul held a roundtable in Henrietta defending the one-year data center moratorium she signed July 14, saying New York does not need to be first but wants to be the first to get it right and that developers should bear infrastructure costs; coverage tied the pause to Stream's proposed $19.5 billion STAMP campus in the Town of Alabama. · source

Find the paper trail

Find the paper trail (0 filed · 11 places to look)

State environmental permits

Backup generators, water withdrawal and stormwater are permitted by the state, usually earlier and in more detail than anything filed locally.

New York State DEC — Division of Air ResourcesThe program page: which permits this state requires, and the office that issues them.
Environmental Notice Bulletin (weekly filings)Searchable public filings — search the operator, the shell LLC on the deed, and the address.

County & town filings

The rezoning application, site plan, traffic and noise studies, staff report and every revision.

Search Alabama (Genesee County) planning filingssearchPlanning departments post application files under many different names. Find the department, then ask the clerk for the application number — that number unlocks everything else.
Search Alabama (Genesee County) property records / GISsearchThe parcel record names the buying LLC and the sale date, which is what ties an anonymous filing to an operator.

Utility & grid records

The electricity request is filed with the grid operator and the utility long before the town hears about it — and states the real load.

NYISO (New York) — interconnection queueRequested megawatts, queue position and target in-service date. The MW here is the real number; the one at the town meeting is often phase one.
New York Public Service Commission — docket searchSpecial contracts, large-load tariffs and rate cases are docketed here. Testimony and exhibits are public, and are usually more candid than the press release.
FERC eLibraryFederal filings: transmission agreements, interconnection service agreements, and co-location disputes.
Search the serving utility for a will-serve lettersearchThe will-serve or load-service letter is the utility's own written commitment. Ask the utility and the PUC for it by name — it is frequently the first document to exist.

Federal databases

Works anywhere, and covers the operator's record at its other sites.

EPA ECHO facility searchEvery federally-reported air, water and waste permit at a facility, plus its inspection and violation history. Search by address or draw a radius around the site. This project's locality centres on 43.100, -78.390 — search that point with a 5-mile radius.
EPA EnvirofactsThe same underlying records, queryable by county — useful for 'what else is permitted near this site' rather than one facility.
EPA Facility Registry ServiceResolves the shell LLC on a permit to the facility it belongs to. Worth a look when the filing name means nothing locally.

These are places to look, not evidence that anything has been filed. Links were checked on 2026-08-21; search links are queries, not records. What to ask for.

Around here

New York briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts.

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Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “Project Double Reed (Stream US Data Centers at STAMP)”, aigridwatch.com/projects/stamp-double-reed-alabama-ny, retrieved 2026-10-11.

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