Data center profile · Donovan Drive, off Lime Kiln Road, Hopewell Junction, East Fishkill, Dutchess County, New York (parcel not published)

Treetop East Fishkill Campus

Treetop Companies' 1 GW data center in East Fishkill, New York, never filed with town; blocked by moratorium to July 2029 and statewide permit pause.

Stalled, moratorium. Treetop entered a 1,000 MW study request in July 2025 but has never filed a data center application with the town. East Fishkill adopted a three-year moratorium on June 25, 2026, and Treetop has since sent the town a notice of claim.
The site, Aerial photo, April 9, 2025
1,000 MW
grid load requested
utility load in the grid operator's study, not IT capacity; phased as 500 MW by 2028 and 500 MW more by 2030
About 143 acres
site, press figure
a wooded tract first planned for two warehouses; press also cites 137 acres
July 1, 2029
moratorium ends
the town bars new data centers in its industrial zone until then; exceptions cover projects under 20 MW
Oct. 2028
proposed in-service date
in the study request; no application, permit or power contract exists to support it
OperatorTreetop Companies (Treetop Development, Teaneck, N.J.), through Donovan Drive Holdings LLC
CustomerNone announced
Planned IT capacity800 MW at full build-out (our estimate from the company or utility power figure)
Next deadlineJuly 1, 2029: Town moratorium on data centers expires
From orbit

The site from above

Satellite overview1
Aerial photo, March 12, 2016.
From orbit

The site

Latest clear satellite view, April 9, 2025.

The site
Aerial photo, April 9, 2025
Permits

Permits checklist

2 pending · 3 checked, nothing on file

Approvals a campus like this normally needs, and what we found.

Risks

Why it stopped, what could revive it

Lawsuits

1 case on record

Power

Power and the grid

None energized or contracted yet

Con Edison grid serviceStudy only
1,000 MW
requested interconnection at the East Fishkill to Wood Street 345 kV lines; study scope approved, no service agreement; the town supervisor says only about 50 MW is available locally State agency · Feb. 2026
Proposed
Backup generators (emergency use, not a power supply)

Getting on the grid

Who supplies what, what it costs, and what is still not public.

  1. July 1, 2025
    Study request entered
    Donovan Drive Holdings asks the New York grid operator to study a 1,000 MW load; no town filing accompanies it (press). News report · July 2025
  2. Feb. 13, 2026
    Study scope approved
    The grid operator's committees approve the system impact study scope; results will not be public. State agency · Feb. 2026
  3. June 26, 2026
    Queue listing questioned
    Press says the proposal no longer appears on the public queue, but the grid operator's Sept. 30, 2026 queue file still lists it as active. State agency · Sept. 2026
  4. Not set
    Service agreement: none
    No interconnection agreement, energy service agreement or load contract exists; a study is not a service commitment. State agency · Oct. 2026

What is next door

campus0.44 km · 345 kV+ line5.35 km · 345 kV+ substation15.73 km · gas pipelinecampus0.44 km · 345 kV+ line5.35 km · 345 kV+ substation15.73 km · gas pipeline

Distances from mapped lines and plants. OpenStreetMap · Oct. 2026

Money

Money on record

Not on record: financing and incentives: no financing, tax abatement or incentive application exists in any source checked News report · Oct. 2026; land purchase: unknown, a Treetop affiliate bought the tract, price, date and seller are not public (press) News report · Oct. 2026

Timeline

What happened, and what is due

SitePaper trailConstructionPowerPermitsMoneyLegalUpcoming
  1. 2023
    Permits Treetop begins presenting two warehouses to the planning board on the same tract; the program is cut in 2024 and paused in Aug. 2024 News report · 2023
  2. July 2025
    Power A 1,000 MW study request goes to the grid operator as Q1738 News report · July 2025
  3. Feb. 13, 2026
    Power The grid operator approves the study scope; proposed in-service date Oct. 2028 State agency · Feb. 2026
  4. May 7, 2026
    Site Local press exposes the queue entry; residents learn of the proposal from the news, not the developer or town News report · May 2026
  5. June 25, 2026
    Permits The town adopts a three-year moratorium on data centers in its industrial zone after a two-hour hearing News report · June 2026
  6. July 14, 2026
    Permits The governor's Executive Order 62 pauses state permits for data centers of 50 MW or more (press) News report · July 2026
  7. Oct. 6, 2026
    Site The governor and two members of Congress hold a data center roundtable in East Fishkill (press) News report · Oct. 2026
  8. Oct. 9, 2026
    Legal Treetop's lawyers send a 17-page objection to the moratorium; the town has a notice of claim (press) News report · Oct. 2026
  9. July 1, 2029
    Permits Town moratorium on new data centers expires Local government · Oct. 2026
Construction activity

Satellite captures by quarter

Since Oct. 2011: 70 satellite captures. The chart starts in the first quarter of 2023; 7 earlier records are not drawn.

Satellite
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Dot size: records in the quarter, largest = 5. Two-digit years mark each first quarter.
The buildings

Specs

Over 1 million sq ft
press description of the campus
2 phases
500 MW by 2028 and 500 MW more by 2030, as proposed
Who is involved

Owners, partners and builders

Owners and developers
  • Treetop Companies: developer, Teaneck, N.J.
  • Donovan Drive Holdings LLC: property owner and study applicant
  • Adam Mermelstein and Azi Mandel: Treetop principals (press)
Power
  • Consolidated Edison: connecting transmission owner
  • NYSEG and Central Hudson: affected utilities
  • New York grid operator: runs the study
Decision-makers
  • East Fishkill Town Board: moratorium and Data Center Study Task Force
  • NY Department of Environmental Conservation: permits paused
  • NY Department of Public Service: environmental study that lifts the pause
Opposition
  • Food & Water Watch
  • For The Many
Still unknown

Open questions

Where this comes from

292 records from 26 documents

Drawn from news reports, public and commercial datasets, state agency records, local government records, our own analysis, securities filings and satellite captures, each kept with its date and source. The bar shows documents by type.

News report 14Dataset 6State agency 4Local government 3Analysis 2SEC filing 1Satellite 0
Evidence

Every quote behind this page

Grade key: A = the primary record itself (permit, filing, exhibit) · B = a dated official statement · C = news reporting. Map distances are our own measurements on OpenStreetMap and carry no grade. Allegations in lawsuits are marked as such in the quotes.

Power (42)
  • SEC filings: Zero SEC footprint: 'Treetop Companies' returns 0 hits in EDGAR and Donovan Drive Holdings LLC has no Form D and no filing mention; no SEC filing names the East Fishkill campus - the only primary MW record i
    “EDGAR full-text search: Treetop Companies 0 hits”
  • IT capacity: not stated
    “The Project proposed is a 1,000 MW load interconnection”
  • Electric service agreement signed: not stated
    “System Impact Study Scope”
  • Interconnection status: NYISO load interconnection study in progress - Q1738 SIS scope issued Feb 2026 and listed ACTIVE in the official NYISO queue file dated Sept. 30, 2026 (Load Projects: status 5, SIS bundle 26-2, last u
    “The Project proposes an In-Service Date of October 2028.”
  • Moratoria: Town of East Fishkill local law adopted Jun 25, 2026 (unanimous): three-year moratorium on acceptance, review or approval of new data centers in the Industrial Zone, in effect until Jul 1, 2029; exceptions: an
    “East Fishkill Data Center Study Task Force”
  • Interconnection status: SIS scope approved: NYISO TPAS recommendation Feb 3, 2026; Operating Committee approval Feb 13, 2026; study results will not be released publicly (NYISO)
    “TPAS Recommendation: 02/03/2026; OC Approval: 02/13/2026”
  • grid interconnection (load), System Impact Study scope: scope approved (TPAS Feb 3, 2026; OC Feb 13, 2026), study step only
    “The Project proposed is a 1,000 MW load interconnection”
  • Utility service: 1,000 MW
    “The Project proposed is a 1,000 MW load interconnection.”
  • Load phasing: 500 MW by 2028; 500 MW added by 2030; proposed in-service date October 2028
    “Proposed Load In-Service Phase(s): 500 MW by 2028, 500 MW added by 2030”
  • Backup power plan: On-site diesel generators and lithium-ion battery UPS (design statement in the SIS scope); no generator fleet is specified and no NYSDEC air permit application has been filed
    “Alternate sources of power: on-site diesel generators, UPS using lithium-ion batteries”
  • Utility service: 1,000 MW
    “The Project proposed is a 1,000 MW load interconnection.”
  • County: Dutchess County, New York
    “a 1,000 MW load interconnection located in Dutchess County in the Town of East Fishkill, NY”
  • Utility: Consolidated Edison (ConEd), connecting transmission owner
    “The proposed Point of Interconnection (POI) for the Project is at the East Fishkill to Wood Street 345 kV lines (38 and 39)”
  • Affected transmission owners: New York State Electric & Gas (NYSEG); Central Hudson
    “NYSEG and Central Hudson are the Affected Transmission Owners (ATOs), in addition to the CTO”
  • Grid operator zone: NYISO Zone H (Millwood)
    “in the New York Independent System Operator, Inc. (NYISO) Zone H (Millwood)”
  • Utility service: 1,000 MW
    “The Project proposed is a 1,000 MW load interconnection”
  • Utility service: 500 MW
    “The expected load profile has a 500 MW phase added by 2028”
  • Utility service: 500 MW
    “another 500 MW phase added by 2030”
  • On-site generation: not stated
    “Alternate sources of power: onsite diesel generators, UPS using lithium-ion batteries”
  • Power plan: grid
    “The Project proposed is a 1,000 MW load interconnection”
  • Load interconnection System Impact Study (SIS) scope, OATT Section 3.9: SIS scope issued for study (TPAS recommendation Feb. 3, 2026; OC approval Feb. 13, 2026); queue active per the Sept. 30, 2026 queue file (status 5, SIS bundl
    “The Project proposed is a 1,000 MW load interconnection. The Project proposes an In-Service Date of October 2028.”
  • large load interconnection request: System Impact Study scope issued (TPAS recommendation Feb. 3, 2026; OC approval Feb. 13, 2026); queue active per official queue file dated Sept. 30, 2026
    “The Project proposed is a 1,000 MW load interconnection.”
  • Interconnection status: NYISO load queue position Q1738 (1 Gig Data Center East Fishkill, Donovan Drive Holdings LLC, 1,000 MW peak load, filed July 17, 2025, POI East Fishkill to Wood Street 345kV, ConEd) is the request th
    “Load Projects”
  • Nearest power line of 345 kV or more: 0.44 km
    Measured on OpenStreetMap map data.
  • Nearest substation of 345 kV or more: 5.35 km
    Measured on OpenStreetMap map data.
  • Nearest gas pipeline: 15.73 km
    Measured on OpenStreetMap map data.
  • Announced: July 17, 2025
    “1738, Donovan Drive Holdings LLC, 1 Gig Data Center East Fishkill, NY, IR Submission Date 2025-07-17, Peak MW load 1000”
  • Utility: Con Edison (proposed connection)
    “While the center would connect to ConEd’s grid, the study will also look at its effect on Central Hudson and NYSEG’s systems”
  • Stage: stalled, blocked by town moratorium to Jul 1, 2029; no application ever filed; no power secured
    “the Town Board unanimously voted to adopt a three-year freeze on data centers”
  • Third-party trackers list the project as suspended (FracTracker-derived listing: Treetop Development Project, Donovan Drive Holdings LLC, Hopewell Junction, 1,000 MW, status suspended); Cleanview lists it at 1,000 MW wit
    “a whopping 800,000 square foot data center with a capacity of 1000MW”
  • Moratoria: NY Executive Order 62 (Jul 14, 2026): DEC discretionary environmental permits paused for data centers that consume or can consume 50 MW or more, until DPS completes a Generic Environmental Impact Statement; ap
    “Executive Order No. 62, which went into effect immediately, directs the New York Department of Environmental Conservation to temporarily pause discretionary permits”
  • Interconnection status: Proposal reportedly no longer appears on NYISOs public interconnection queue (as of Jun 26, 2026)
    “that proposal no longer appears on the New York Independent System Operator interconnection queue”
  • WAMC reports the proposal no longer appears on NYISOs public interconnection queue. Unverified against NYISO (no enumerable public load queue); treat as reported status, not a confirmed withdrawal.
    “that proposal no longer appears on the New York Independent System Operator interconnection queue”
  • Source record
    “a 150-megawatt data center in iPark (by iPark East Fishkill LLC) and an 800-megawatt data center by East Fishkill Storage 1, LLC”
  • Interconnection status: proposal no longer appears on the NYISO interconnection queue as of the June 2026 moratorium coverage
    “Although the proposal no longer appears on the New York Independent System Operator’s interconnection queue, residents still filled a public hearing to press town leaders to act”
  • Project status: stalled - no application ever filed with the town; East Fishkill adopted a three-year moratorium on Jun 25, 2026 prohibiting data centers over 20 MW until Jul 1, 2029
    “East Fishkill’s moratorium, lasting until July 1, 2029, prohibits permitting or consideration of any data center”
  • Stated campus size: 1,000 MW
    “the project, known as 1 Gig Data Center East Fishkill, NY”
  • USA TODAY Network / Poughkeepsie Journal exposes the queue entry; residents learn of the 1,000 MW proposal from press, not from the developer or the town. Petition against the earlier warehouse already at 771 signatures.
    “Plans are afoot behind the scenes for a new data center in Dutchess County with vast power needs”
  • Moved from campus facts field 'available capacity local': 50 MW. Town Supervisor D'Alessandro: only about 50 MW is available locally and a new substation would take several years (five years per A Little Beacon Blog inte
    “They do not have the power. Definitely not 1,000 megawatts”
  • Queue entry date: July 2025
    “one filed in July 2025 for what would be the second largest data proposal in the state”
  • grid interconnection (load), study request: filed, entered interconnection queue
    “one filed in July 2025 for what would be the second largest data proposal in the state”
  • Project enters the NYISO interconnection queue as Q1738 (1 Gig Data Center East Fishkill, NY), the only affirmative project action ever taken; no town filing accompanied it.
    “one filed in July 2025 for what would be the second largest data proposal in the state”
Money and contracts (12)
  • load contract / interconnection agreement: finding: none executed FINDING: no interconnection agreement, energy services agreement or load contract exists. The only grid action is the Q1738 System Impact Study request (s
    “System Impact Study Scope”
  • host community / community benefits agreement: finding: none FINDING: no host community agreement or community benefits agreement exists. The towns Data Center Study Task Force (Resolution 101/2026) and the states forthc
    “East Fishkill Data Center Study Task Force”
  • Site acres: 143 acres
    “a roughly 1-gigawatt campus spanning more than 1 million square feet across about 143 acres”
  • Tenants: not stated
    “Treetop Development is now considering a 1,000-megawatt data center instead”
  • Tenant status: none, no tenant announced
    “Treetop Development has not returned multiple requests for comment”
  • Stated capital cost: not stated
    “Plans are afoot behind the scenes for a new data center in Dutchess County with vast power needs”
  • Incentives: not stated
    “DOCUMENTED ABSENCE: no PILOT, IDA involvement, abatement or incentive application appears in any source opened (no application of any kind has been filed with the town or county)”
  • PILOT / tax abatement: finding: none FINDING: no PILOT, IDA transaction, abatement or incentive agreement exists or has been applied for in any source opened; no application of any kind has been filed with the town.
    “Without any formal notification to the town”
  • land purchase: finding: terms not public FINDING: a purchase of the Donovan Drive tract by the Treetop affiliate occurred (Guardian reporting), but price, date, seller and any contingencies are not in any public source o
    “Treetop Development purchased property in East Fishkill while initially pursuing approvals for a warehouse project”
  • Acres: 143 acres
    “a roughly 1-gigawatt campus spanning more than 1 million square feet across about 143 acres”
  • Square feet: >1,000,000 sq ft
    “a facility spanning more than 1 million square feet across approximately 143 acres”
  • Acres: 137 acres
    “two warehouses totaling 765,000 square feet on 137 wooded acres zoned for industrial use”
Permits and government (18)
  • land use, moratorium local law: adopted Jun 25, 2026 (unanimous), bars acceptance, review or approval of new data centers in the Industrial Zone until Jul 1, 2029; same meeting extended the pre-existing industrial-prop
    “Open Public Hearing to Consider Moratorium; Adopt Local Law”
  • NYISO Transmission Planning Advisory Subcommittee (TPAS): Recommendation of the Q1738 System Impact Study scope (1 Gig Data Center East Fishkill, 1,000 MW load interconnection); Operating Committee approval followed Feb
    “TPAS Recommendation: 02/03/2026; OC Approval: 02/13/2026”
  • DEC permit status: No NYSDEC permit application for the campus as of Oct. 18, 2026 (ENB index search + DECinfo Locator permit layers)
    “DECinfo layers in the site envelope: SPDES 7 permits, Air State Facility 1 (PACKAGE PAVEMENT CO, 3-1328-00038), Air Title V 0, MSGP 3”
  • EPA ECHO FAA status: No ECHO facility record and no FAA case names the campus at the Donovan Drive site anchor (41.5580,-73.7300)
    “ECHO pulls at 41.5580,-73.7300 returned CWA 102 and Air 71 records incl; ONSEMI EAST FISHKILL FACILITY, 2070 Route 52 (SPDES NY0005096); FAA returned 60 cases”
  • Town of East Fishkill Town Board: Public hearing and adoption of Local Law extending, consolidating and imposing moratoria (data centers barred in the Industrial Zone until Jul 1, 2029); adoption of Resolution 101/2026 c
    “Open Public Hearing to Consider Moratorium; Adopt Local Law”
  • Seqra status: Never commenced for the data center, no application has ever been filed with the Town of East Fishkill, so no SEQRA review exists
    “No site plan, special permit application, zoning request, or other development application has been submitted to the town for review”
  • Paper or real: paper only, queue study request and press coverage; zero filings, zero permits, zero construction
    “Before an application was submitted to the town, residents mobilized”
  • land use, data center application: NEVER FILED (negative finding), no site plan, special permit, zoning request or other development application for a data center has ever been submitted
    “No site plan, special permit application, zoning request, or other development application has been submitted to the town for review”
  • SEQRA review: not commenced, no application exists to trigger SEQRA for the data center
    “A moratorium gives us time. Time to study the infrastructure impacts and the environmental impacts”
  • state environmental permits (DEC discretionary): none applied for; issuance frozen statewide by Executive Order 62 (Jul 14, 2026) for data centers of 50 MW or more until the DPS Generic Environmental Impact Statement is
    “The Governor is temporarily pausing State environmental permits for up to one year”
  • Executive Order 62: statewide pause on DEC discretionary permits for data centers of 50 MW or more, pending the DPS Generic Environmental Impact Statement. The Legislature's Responsible Data Center Development Act (20 MW
    “the Governor acted by executive order rather than signing the Legislature's more aggressive Responsible Data Center Development Act”
  • Opposition: Organized resident opposition: petition (771 signatures by May 6, 2026), rallies and hearing turnout organized by Food & Water Watch and For The Many; grounds: electric rates, groundwater/wells (moratorium re
    “We can't drink data! We can't drink data, chanted organizers outside the East Fishkill Town Hall”
  • Town Board unanimously adopts the three-year data center moratorium (to Jul 1, 2029) and creates the Data Center Study Task Force after a nearly two-hour hearing with dozens of speakers.
    “Hours later, the Town Board unanimously voted to adopt a three-year freeze on data centers”
  • Zoning: Industrial Zone, data center is not a listed permitted use in any industrial zone (Town Supervisor statement)
    “we found it is not listed as permitted use in any industrial site”
  • Town of East Fishkill Town Board: Resolution setting the Jun 25, 2026 public hearing on extending the development moratorium to include data centers; resident protests at May Town Board meetings
    “On May 21, the East Fishkill Town Board passed a resolution for a public hearing on June 25”
  • Warehouse application: Two warehouses: originally 1,000,000 sq ft program, revised 2024 to 765,000 sq ft total; Planning Board application since 2023; paused August 2024 under the towns master-plan industrial moratorium
    “We are still pursuing the warehouse project”
  • land use, warehouse site plan (prior use): pending/stalled, two warehouses, program cut from 1,000,000 sq ft to 765,000 sq ft in 2024; paused under the towns master-plan industrial moratorium from Aug 2024; developer s
    “We are still pursuing the warehouse project”
  • Town of East Fishkill Planning Board: Warehouse application presentations by Treetop/Donovan Drive Holdings (two warehouses; revised down in 2024); several appearances, none in recent months as of May 2026
    “representatives have appeared before the Planning Board a few times”
Legal (3)
  • Guardian reports Treetops attorneys filed a 17-page objection letter arguing the moratorium unlawfully targets its property and is a permanent prohibition in substance; the town separately confirms receipt of a notice of
    “In a 17-page objection letter reviewed by the Guardian, attorneys argued the moratorium unlawfully targets the company property”
  • Lawsuits: No filed court case located. Treetop attorneys submitted a 17-page objection letter to the Town Board arguing the moratorium unlawfully targets its property and amounts to a permanent prohibition; the Town has
    “advised not to in light of a notice of claim received by the town from Treetops Development”
  • Gov. Hochul, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Pat Ryan hold a data-center roundtable at Fishkill Farms in East Fishkill promoting the state pause, the campus has become a statewide political symbol.
    “Fishkill Farms hosted Hochul, AOC, Pat Ryan to talk future of data centers”
Site and other (14)
  • Developer entity: Donovan Drive Holdings LLC
    “1 Gig Data Center East Fishkill, NY (Project), which is being developed by Donovan Drive Holdings LLC (Eligible Customer)”
  • Point of interconnection: East Fishkill to Wood Street 345 kV lines (38 and 39); Connecting Transmission Owner: Consolidated Edison Inc. (ConEd); affected systems NYSEG and Central Hudson
    “The proposed Point of Interconnection (POI) will be at the East Fishkill to Wood Street 345 kV lines (38 and 39). The Connecting Transmission Owner (CTO) is Consolidated Edison Inc. (ConEd).”
  • Name: 1 Gig Data Center East Fishkill, NY
    “1 Gig Data Center East Fishkill, NY is being developed by Donovan Drive Holdings LLC (Eligible Customer)”
  • Owner companies: Donovan Drive Holdings LLC
    “being developed by Donovan Drive Holdings LLC (Eligible Customer)”
  • Original target date: Oct. 2028
    “The proposed In-Service Date (ISD) for the Project is October 2028”
  • County code: 36027
    “campus anchor (Donovan Drive): Dutchess County NY (36027) per FCC point-in-county lookup; no feature in another county appears in the record”
  • Site history: Wooded tract in the Lime Kiln Road industrial area; Donovan Drive provides access to Lime Kiln Corporate Park (four occupied lots, four vacant/underutilized lots)
    “Donovan Drive provides access to Lime Kiln Corporate Park which has four occupied lots and four vacant/underutilized lots”
  • Aliases: Treetop East Fishkill Campus; Treetop Development Project
    “a roughly 1-gigawatt campus”
  • County code: 36027
    “East Fishkill, Dutchess County, NY)”
    grade C
  • Current target date: not stated
    “Updated 062226 LL 2026 Extend Consolidate and Impose Moratorium effect until 7-1-2029”
  • Construction stage: not stated
    “Without any formal notification to the town, Treetop Development is now considering a 1,000-megawatt data center”
  • Land control date: not stated
    “Treetop Development purchased property in East Fishkill while initially pursuing approvals for a warehouse project”
  • Address: Donovan Drive, off Lime Kiln Road, Hopewell Junction (Town of East Fishkill)
    “an AI-processing and cloud-computing center at its property off of Donovan Drive”
  • Developer: Treetop Companies (Treetop Development), Teaneck, New Jersey
    “Treetop Development is now considering a 1,000-megawatt data center instead”

Imagery and records: Aerial imagery: local aerial photography via Esri World Imagery Wayback.