Data centers and new power in Niagara County, NY
735 MW of new power is waiting to connect to the grid in Niagara County, NY — 5 active requests. Typical wait: 2.1 years. 1 projects are built, 22 withdrawn. Data as of 14 October 2026.
How far is it from your house?
Anthropic Lake Mariner, run by AI XPV Platform, is in Niagara County and uses about as much electricity as 34,000 homes.
2 public schools are within 5 miles of it, 2 within one mile. Counted from the facility, not from any home. School list: US Department of Education.
What is happening with electricity in Niagara County
Every new power plant, battery or big customer has to join a waiting list before it can plug into the grid. This is what that list looks like in Niagara County right now.
Where every request ever filed here ended up
Most requests in the US are withdrawn — a developer tests a site and moves on. That is normal, not a warning sign for Niagara County.
What kind of power is asking to connect
By capacity requested. Data as of 14 October 2026.
All the numbers
28 requests ever filed
Source: interconnection queues published by NYISO. Parsed and normalised by Watt Street. Data as of 14 October 2026. A queued project is a request, not a commitment.
Outcome of every request filed here
| Outcome | Projects | Capacity | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Built | 1 | 0 MW | 3.6% |
| Still waiting | 5 | 735 MW | 17.9% |
| Withdrawn | 22 | 4.3 GW | 78.6% |
| Paused | 0 | — | 0.0% |
Waiting to connect, by type of power
| Type | Projects | Capacity requested |
|---|---|---|
| Batteries | 3 | 510 MW |
| Solar | 2 | 225 MW |
Key dates for projects here
no dated windows published
| Queue | What closes | Closes | Standing |
|---|---|---|---|
| FERC | FERC large-load show cause — stakeholder comments on RTO responses Comments on the six RTO/ISO responses to the FPA section 206 show-cause orders of 18 June 2026 (PJM EL26-67, SPP EL26-68, NYISO EL26-69, MISO EL26-70… | No date published yet | unconfirmed source |
| FERC | FERC RM26-4 — generic large-load rulemaking Still at ANOPR stage. | No date published yet | confirmed source |
| FERC | Georgia PSC - Georgia Power must file large-load contracts 30 days before execution A standing obligation rather than a dated one: large-load contracts must be filed with the commission at least 30 days before they are executed. | No date published yet | confirmed source |
| NYISO | NYISO cluster request window Class Year deliverability construct plus the new cluster process. | No date published yet | confirmed source |
A date marked confirmed was checked by a person against the authority's own tariff, order or form page. Anything else is listed so you know it exists, with a link so you can check it yourself. Full calendar.
The biggest projects on file
top 15 by size
| Project | Type | Capacity | Status | Filed | Queue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riverbank Power A | Hydro | 1.0 GW | withdrawn | 2008-02 | NYISO |
| Huntley | Natural gas | 752 MW | withdrawn | 2006-07 | NYISO |
| Somerset | Other | 687 MW | withdrawn | 2006-11 | NYISO |
| Ridge View Solar Energy Center | Solar | 350 MW | withdrawn | 2019-05 | NYISO |
| Erie Canal BESS | Batteries | 230 MW | active | 2024-10 | NYISO |
| Erie Canal BESS | Batteries | 230 MW | withdrawn | 2023-07 | NYISO |
| Lighthouse Wind | Wind | 201 MW | withdrawn | 2014-06 | NYISO |
| BPP NY Somerset BESS I | Batteries | 200 MW | withdrawn | 2023-09 | NYISO |
| Lockport Storage | Batteries | 186 MW | withdrawn | 2022-08 | NYISO |
| Lockport Storage | Batteries | 180 MW | active | 2024-10 | NYISO |
| Niagara Dolomite Solar | Solar | 180 MW | withdrawn | 2019-05 | NYISO |
| Fortran | Other | 150 MW | withdrawn | 2006-03 | NYISO |
| Somerset Solar | Solar | 125 MW | active | 2020-08 | NYISO |
| Bear Ridge Solar | Solar | 100 MW | active | 2018-03 | NYISO |
| Buffalo Road Energy Storage | Batteries | 100 MW | active | 2024-09 | NYISO |
Big new power users asking to connect
8 on record
Requests to connect large new customers — data centers, factories, electrification — rather than power plants.
| Request | Capacity | Status | Queue | Stated use |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North East Data LLC Data Center | 500 MW | active | NYISO | DAT |
| Somerset Load | 250 MW | energized | NYISO | not stated |
| Lake Mariner Data II | 250 MW | active | NYISO | DAT-AI |
| Wulf Compute Data Center II | 250 MW | active | NYISO | DAT-AI |
| Globe Digital Holdings - 1 | 192 MW | active | NYISO | DAT-AI |
| Niagara Digital Campus | 140 MW | active | NYISO | DAT |
| Verizon - Project Oasis | 75 MW | active | NYISO | not stated |
| Digihost load | 50 MW | energized | NYISO | not stated |
Most of these filings do not say what the power is for. “Not stated” is the filing's silence, not ours.
How Niagara County compares
#498 in the US · #16 in NY
Niagara County ranks #498 of 1,607 US counties by power waiting to connect, and #16 of 57 in New York.
| County | Waiting | Capacity queued |
|---|---|---|
| Suffolk County | 27 | 3.7 GW |
| Kings County | 8 | 3.1 GW |
| Orange County | 10 | 1.6 GW |
| Ulster County | 11 | 1.3 GW |
| Steuben County | 8 | 1.3 GW |
| Dutchess County | 7 | 1.1 GW |
| Nassau County | 2 | 1.1 GW |
| Genesee County | 4 | 926 MW |
Common questions about power in Niagara County
How long does it take to get power for a data center in Niagara County, NY?
The median wait for a project still in the interconnection queue in Niagara County is 2.1 years. Across the US, most large loads are quoted three to seven years depending on the market and whether network upgrades are needed. 1 projects in Niagara County have reached energization and 22 were withdrawn, so the withdrawal rate here is a better guide to risk than any single quoted timeline.
How much capacity is available in Niagara County, NY?
735 MW is currently requested across 5 active interconnection requests, and 0 MW has actually been built. A queued megawatt is a request, not deliverable capacity — most queued projects are never built. For deliverable offtake capacity at a specific substation you need a utility study, not a queue.
Is Niagara County, NY a good site for a data center?
This page gives you the power half of that answer: what is queued, what has been energized, how long the wait runs, and which large load interconnection requests are already recorded nearby. The other half — the state policy position, moratoriums and large load tariffs — is on our New York policy page.
Where does the data on this page come from?
The interconnection queue published by the transmission providers serving Niagara County — NYISO — parsed and normalised by Watt Street. Every figure carries the date it was true. Data as of 14 October 2026.
Go deeper on Niagara County
The interactive map plots every one of these applications, and a generated county report puts them in a sourced PDF with the date each figure was true on every page.
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