Data center powered by renewable energy and coal plant deactivation
Company: TeraWulf
The claim, verbatim
TeraWulf's Cayuga Lake data center proposal centered on powering the data center with renewable energy and deactivating the coal-fired power plant
Source (primary)
Letters to the Editor: Did Hochul Save Cayuga Lake from TeraWulf? - Ithaca Times (-, news_article)
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Quote: “TeraWulf's pitch to Lansing explicitly centered on deactivating the coal plant and repurposing the site for a data center using renewable energy.”
How we checked this
Checked on September 18, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The letter writer states that TeraWulf's pitch to the Town of Lansing explicitly centered on deactivating the coal plant and using renewable energy for a data center on the site. This comes from a reader's letter, not from TeraWulf or the paper's own reporting.
Confirmed in the source:
- TeraWulf's Cayuga Lake pitch centered on deactivating the coal-fired power plant
- TeraWulf's Cayuga Lake pitch centered on repurposing the site for a data center using renewable energy
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://www.ithaca.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/letters-to-the-editor-did-hochul-save-cayuga-lake-from-terawulf/article_40646f10-59c7-449b-9d2e-a79e4d7ec23c.html) in full (13,340 characters, retrieved September 1, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Letters to the Editor: Did Hochul Save Cayuga Lake from TeraWulf? - Ithaca Times
Quote: “TeraWulf's pitch to Lansing explicitly centered on deactivating the coal plant and repurposing the site for a data center using renewable energy.”