Restart coal-fired power plant to power data center
Company: TeraWulf - Project: Cayuga Site
The claim, verbatim
TeraWulf wants to restart the coal-fired power plant to power its data center project
Source (primary)
Letters to the Editor: Did Hochul Save Cayuga Lake from TeraWulf? - Ithaca Times (-, news_article)
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Quote: “the coal-fired power plant that closed in 2019, which TeraWulf wants to restart to power its project.”
How we checked this
Checked on September 18, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The letter quotes a July 22 Ithaca Journal report that TeraWulf wants to restart the closed coal-fired plant to power its project. This is secondhand, and the letter writer argues the plant cannot realistically be restarted and calls the idea possible 'saber-rattling.'
Confirmed in the source:
- TeraWulf wants to restart the coal-fired power plant on the Cayuga Lake property
- The purpose of the restart would be to power TeraWulf's data center project
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: “the coal-fired power plant that closed in 2019, which TeraWulf wants to restart to power its project.”