No Gas, All Hydro, Still Banned: NY Freezes 635 MW Massena Project

Pittsburgh-based Alcoa says it's "very close" to selling its shuttered Massena East aluminum smelter in New York's North Country to a data center developer. Here's the part that other reporting left out: the buyer has been sitting on that site since 2017, wants to build a 635-megawatt (MW) computing campus there — and Gov. Kathy Hochul froze the whole thing two months ago with her data center moratorium (see NY Gov. Hochul Goes BANANA, Bans Data Centers for at Least 1 Year). Alcoa is selling a piece of land that New York State has made it illegal to develop. Somebody will eat that discount, and it won't be Albany.

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