Lake Mariner coal plant conversion
Company: TeraWulf - Project: Lake Mariner Anthropic AI Factory
The claim, verbatim
TeraWulf has spent the past two years converting a retired coal plant site on Lake Mariner in western New York into an AI data center campus
Source (primary)
Google's $3.2 Billion TeraWulf Backstop Shows How AI Data Centers Get Built - Startup Fortune (-, news_article)
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Quote: “a Maryland-based bitcoin miner that has spent the past two years converting a retired coal plant site on Lake Mariner in western New York, outside Buffalo, into an AI data center campus”
How we checked this
Checked on September 19, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The document states TeraWulf has spent the past two years converting a retired coal plant site on Lake Mariner in western New York into an AI data center campus.
Confirmed in the source:
- TeraWulf has spent the past two years converting a retired coal plant site into an AI data center campus
- The site is on Lake Mariner in western New York
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://startupfortune.com/googles-32-billion-terawulf-backstop-shows-how-ai-data-centers-get-built/) in full (8,609 characters, retrieved September 8, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Google's $3.2 Billion TeraWulf Backstop Shows How AI Data Centers Get Built - Startup Fortune
Quote: “a Maryland-based bitcoin miner that has spent the past two years converting a retired coal plant site on Lake Mariner in western New York, outside Buffalo, into an AI data center campus”