At the start of the Sept. 5, 2025 meeting, Irene Weiser, chair of the climate and sustainable energy advisory board, told the Planning, Energy and Environmental Quality Committee she had researched reports that Terra Wolf (referred to in the meeting as Sotero/Tara Wolf in news reports) plans to repurpose the former Cayuga power plant site for a data center and that the company’s claims of using local "green" electricity may be inaccurate.

"Just because they are locating themselves where there's a saturation of these low carbon emitting power plants doesn't mean that they themselves are getting green power," Weiser said. She explained that an operator must buy renewable energy certificates (RECs) to claim official renewable energy sourcing and said a related operator had been found to misstate its renewable energy use after converting a Somerset plant to crypto‑mining and data center operations and not purchasing the required RECs.

Committee members noted prior discussion of the operator and that the Industrial Development Agency (IDA) placed restrictions on the infrastructure assistance for the power line that "I believe it excluded any kind of crypto mining," a legislator said; the committee asked staff to obtain the exact IDA restriction language. The committee also noted that staff would seek additional information about Terra Wolf and the Cayuga site for future briefing.

The committee did not take action at the meeting; the remarks were entered as public comment and committee members asked county staff to collect more information, including any IDA conditions, and provide an informational datasheet to the committee.