STAMP Data Center "Project Double Reed", Alabama, New York

Stream U.S. Data Centers' Project Double Reed, a $19.46 billion data center campus planned for the STAMP industrial park in the town of Alabama, in Genesee County, New York, is waiting on revised plans after state regulators changed how they read the wetlands on the site. The campus would put three two-story buildings, 2.2 million square feet in all, on about 130 acres, with about 500 megawatts of power split between a North Campus and South Campus on either side of Crosby Road.

On September 14, Alabama Town Supervisor Rob Crossen said Stream was revising its plans "to try to comply with the most recent determination by the DEC on how wetlands are looked at." The state Department of Environmental Conservation has told the development center that construction cannot begin without a stormwater permit, which it will not grant until it reviews an updated wetland study. In an August 24 letter, the development center's attorney said the state no longer considers STAMP grandfathered from new wetland rules.

The land was meant for Plug Power's hydrogen plant, which stalled amid funding problems; Plug sold it to Stream for $132.5 million. Stream says it is working with an unnamed "prominent existing tenant, a Fortune 50 company with an S&P credit rating of at least AA-." The project has grown from a $6.3 billion, 60-acre plan approved by the county's development board in March 2025 to today's $19.5 billion version, and Stream has asked for $1.46 billion in state and local tax breaks.

Water, noise and the land's neighbors are at the center of the fight; the STAMP site borders the Tonawanda Seneca Nation, and the Nation and the Sierra Club oppose the project over effects on wetlands and wildlife. "The misinformation is mainly on their side," said Jim Joyner, who has lived near the site about 35 years, disputing residents' figures on water use and noise. Neighbor Cheryl Cordes told 13WHAM her family would leave if the project is built: "We're leaving the home that we built."

At a packed hearing in April 2026, one resident asked whether the 20,000 gallons of water a day in the application was "per building or in total"; the development center's chief executive said engineering calculations put use closer to 13,000 gallons a day. "They're going to jack up my electric bill even more," said Adrienne Yocina of Indian Falls, a few miles from the site.

Two things changed in July 2026: Governor Kathy Hochul issued an executive order on July 14 pausing state environmental permits for new large data centers for up to a year, and a day earlier the Tonawanda Seneca Nation, the Sierra Club and an Alabama resident sued to challenge the 2012 agreement that created STAMP. "It is a past IZA that really does lock out future boards from making decisions for their people, and that's not right," said Grandell Logan, a spokesperson for the Tonawanda Seneca Nation.

The project still needs final environmental and site plan approval from the Alabama Planning Board and approval of its tax incentives from the Genesee County Economic Development Center. Crossen has said the governor's order appears to exclude local approvals, so the town's review continues, while the Seneca Nation's lawsuit and the dispute over the state stormwater permit remain pending.