Proposed HPC data center capacity at Cayuga Lake
Company: TeraWulf - Project: Cayuga Site
The claim, verbatim
In September 2025, TeraWulf proposed building a 300-400MW high performance computing data center on Cayuga Lake
Source (primary)
Letters to the Editor: Did Hochul Save Cayuga Lake from TeraWulf? - Ithaca Times (-, news_article)
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Quote: “In September 2025, TeraWulf proposed building a 300-400MW high performance computing (HPC) data center on Cayuga Lake.”
How we checked this
Checked on September 15, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The letter states each element of this claim: the timing, the 300-400MW size, and the HPC data center on Cayuga Lake. The source is a reader's letter to the editor by John V. Dennis, not a news report.
Confirmed in the source:
- TeraWulf proposed a high performance computing data center on Cayuga Lake
- The proposal was made in September 2025
- The proposed data center capacity was 300-400MW
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: “In September 2025, TeraWulf proposed building a 300-400MW high performance computing (HPC) data center on Cayuga Lake.”