TE Connectivity, a designer and manufacturer of connectors and sensors, yesterday announced plans to invest more than $60 million in an advanced R&D and manufacturing facility in New York State for next-generation fiber optic solutions engineered to serve hyperscale AI data center operators and cloud providers.
The 135,000-square-foot facility will accelerate the development and production of high-density fiber array units TE acquired from RAM Photonics in February 2026, designed to help data center operators transition to higher-density, lower-power architectures.
TE CEO Terrence Curtin said the company has seen an uptick in interest in its optical connectivity technology among data center customers.
The new facility in Henrietta, New York, is expected to open in spring 2027 and ramp up manufacturing through 2031. TE plans to employ some 860 people in engineering, manufacturing and management.
According to Governor Kathy Hochul, TE will repurpose a vacant building, a former Sam's Club at 1600 Marketplace Drive.
Based in Galway, Ireland, TE is a global industrial technology company that designs and manufactures connectors, sensors and electronic components that help advance transportation, industrial applications, medical technology, energy and data center industries. The company has customers in more than 130 countries and has a global workforce of more than 100,000 employees.
Empire State Development is providing up to $22 million in performance-based Excelsior Jobs Tax Credits tied to new job creation. Monroe County and Greater Rochester Enterprise are also helping advance the project. The total project cost is more than $62 million.
An illustrative view of TE Connectivity’s Fiber Array Unit (FAU), which use advanced active alignment and automated optical fiber fusion splicing to deliver density, scalability and lower insertion loss.TE Connectivity
