Stop a Monster Data Center at the STAMP Mega Industrial Site
This project threatens the Tonawanda Seneca Nation, its rural neighbors in the GLOW Region, and all of NYS. Local residents and the Nation STRONGLY oppose this plan. Click here to read our one-pager on the campaign.
Information on the proposed data center complex:
Data Center Application materials (site plan, SEQR application, and financial incentives request)
Additional campaign resources:
Compiled media coverage of the STOP the STAMP Monster Data Center Campaign
Link to our slide deck from Desserts and Data Center Discussions
GLOW Region Take Action! Sheet
STOP the STAMP Monster Data Center flier
Rethink STAMP two-pager
STOP the STAMP Monster Data Center public documents - Google Drive
Statement from Good Jobs First on economic impact of the proposed data center
Statements in opposition from local residents and organizations
Summary Critique of the Historical Noise Analyses Performed by the GCEDC with Respect to STAMP, 2012 to the Present
Model Ordinance for Municipal Regulation of a Data Center
GLOW Region Municipality Meeting Schedule
How to write an opinion piece for a local publication
Genesee County elected officials contact info
Orleans County elected officials contact info
Powerpoint presentations:
Data Centers and Environmental Justice in WNY
2025-2026 NYS Data Centers Legislative Overview
IDEAS from North Tonawanda FOR RESOLVING BITCOIN MINING ISSUES - HIGH NOISE LEVELS EMISSIONS
NYC-DSA Tech Action - The Hidden Cost of AI.pdf
Other resources from around the state and country:
Here's a great video from A More Perfect Union about what it's like to live in a town with a data center. But don't get scared! All around the country, communities are fighting to stop data centers, and they are winning! Want more? Here is a whole series of videos from the same group.
Data Center Research, Articles, Resources - Google Drive
- STREAM US Data Centers and their financial backer, Apollo Global Management, want to build a 2.2 million square foot, 500 megawatt data center complex at STAMP. They are requesting $1.46 billion in taxpayer subsidies for a promised 125 permanent jobs: $11.7 million / job!
- We are outraged and horrified. We will fight this monster, and we will win. Our movement is strong: More than 100 organizations and 500 individuals signed a recent letter to STREAM and Apollo stating their opposition to a data center at STAMP. Read our press release here.
- STREAM’s new plan envisions a massive complex of three towering structures more than 100 feet tall, occupying more than 2.2 million square feet and using more than 500 megawatts of electricity per year. The facility would burn tens of thousands of gallons of diesel fuel and emit carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, benzene, and other hazardous air pollutants. 500 megawatts is roughly the amount of energy required to power 410,000 residential homes for a year.
- STREAM intends to use space that was previously part of a parcel owned by Plug Power, which paused construction on its green hydrogen manufacturing facility in 2023, leaving a gap in financing for the onsite electrical substation. Despite 100s of millions in taxpayer subsidies, Plug Power never turned a profit + never produced hydrogen or a single permanent job at STAMP.
- STREAM’s plan also calls for onsite storage of 114,000 gallons of diesel fuel and discharge of 20,000 gallons of sanitary wastewater per day. Currently, GCEDC plans to store sanitary wastewater discharge from operations at STAMP in a large sewage tank located onsite. Wastewater would be transported daily by diesel truck to be dumped at a municipal wastewater facility in the Village of Oakfield.
- GCEDC voluntarily rescinded approvals for a smaller data center plan from STREAM. This rescission followed litigation by the Nation and the Sierra Club, which asked that the approvals be vacated based on GCEDC’s violations of both procedural and substantive requirements of the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA). The litigation contended that GCEDC violated the law when it issued decisions awarding subsidies of $472 million to Stream U.S. Data Centers and conducted environmental review without project specifics or site plan review.
This project threatens the Tonawanda Seneca Nation, its rural neighbors in the GLOW Region, and all of NYS. Local residents and the Nation STRONGLY oppose this plan. Click here to read our one-pager on the campaign.
Information on the proposed data center complex:
Data Center Application materials (site plan, SEQR application, and financial incentives request)
Additional campaign resources:
Compiled media coverage of the STOP the STAMP Monster Data Center Campaign
Link to our slide deck from Desserts and Data Center Discussions
GLOW Region Take Action! Sheet
STOP the STAMP Monster Data Center flier
Rethink STAMP two-pager
STOP the STAMP Monster Data Center public documents - Google Drive
Statement from Good Jobs First on economic impact of the proposed data center
Statements in opposition from local residents and organizations
Summary Critique of the Historical Noise Analyses Performed by the GCEDC with Respect to STAMP, 2012 to the Present
Model Ordinance for Municipal Regulation of a Data Center
GLOW Region Municipality Meeting Schedule
How to write an opinion piece for a local publication
Genesee County elected officials contact info
Orleans County elected officials contact info
Powerpoint presentations:
Data Centers and Environmental Justice in WNY
2025-2026 NYS Data Centers Legislative Overview
IDEAS from North Tonawanda FOR RESOLVING BITCOIN MINING ISSUES - HIGH NOISE LEVELS EMISSIONS
NYC-DSA Tech Action - The Hidden Cost of AI.pdf
Other resources from around the state and country:
Here's a great video from A More Perfect Union about what it's like to live in a town with a data center. But don't get scared! All around the country, communities are fighting to stop data centers, and they are winning! Want more? Here is a whole series of videos from the same group.
Data Center Research, Articles, Resources - Google Drive
