Central New York is quietly making the copper infrastructure powering America’s AI boom
Thanks to eight copper and wire plants in the Mohawk Valley, Stamford, CT-based Pantheon Electric, upon its founding in Jan. 2026, became among the largest independent U.S. maker of the copper conductive infrastructure powering AI data centers, the grid and American manufacturing.
Generational Plants dating back as far as 1935 in Boonville, Camden, Canastota, Cazenovia, Oneida, Rome, and Sherrill from the Mohawk Valley, and Jordan in Onondaga County, have, since 1995, one by one been acquired by International Wire, where the Camden Wire Company became the foundation of the parent’s corporate and manufacturing headquarters in the rural upstate community…