Plans are underway to transform the 140-acre Riverview Innovation and Technology Campus near Buffalo, New York, into a 500,000-square-foot data center development. Property owners Jon Williams and John Yensan, partnering with an unnamed developer, have proposed a potential $2 billion investment that could break ground late 2026 and finish by the end of 2027. However, the project faces opposition from the Clean Air Coalition of WNY, which prefers the site be used for renewable energy generation and storage.
Located at 3875 and 3800 River Road, the property was used for coke manufacturing from 1917 until 2018, when the Tonawanda Coke Corporation closed following bankruptcy. Williams and Yensan purchased the heavily polluted site at auction in 2019 for $1. Their remediation firm is currently handling the ongoing environmental cleanup and demolition, which will run concurrently with the data center's construction.
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| 5.94 miles | DigiPower X: New York 2 |
DigiPower X's Fortistar mining facility is located in North Tonawanda, New York, USA. Digihost is continuing cryptocurrency mining operations at the 60 MW Fortistar North Tonawanda power station
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| 6.64 miles | hudsonvalleyhost Buffalo | |
| 6.64 miles | Lumen Buffalo 2 | |
| 6.90 miles | DigiPower X: New York 1 |
DigiPower X's Erie County facility is located in Erie County, New York. This facility, with a 42 MW capacity, was Digihost's first operational mining site.
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| 7.21 miles | CentriLogic Buffalo | |
| 7.21 miles | HostPapa BUF1 |
Formerly known as "ColoCrossing BUF1"
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| 7.21 miles | H5: Buffalo, NY |
H5 Data Centers expanded its regional connectivity footprint in New York by acquiring the downtown Buffalo carrier hotel from 365 Data Centers.
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| 7.91 miles | Lumen Buffalo 1 | |
| 9.19 miles | Plaza PlusInterested in this information?Contact us |
Wattum Management's Bitcoin mining facility, named "November 2," is located in Niagara Falls, New York.
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| 9.50 miles | Urbacon: Niagara DC3 |
This facility is a part of Urbacon's Niagara Digital Campus in New York.
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| 9.52 miles | Urbacon: Niagara DC2 |
Phase I of the Niagara Digital Campus would be built in two parts (Phase IA and Phase IB) over the course of approximately 24 months from groundbreaking. DC2 will be built in Phase 1B.
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| 9.55 miles | Urbacon: Niagara Digital Campus |
The site would be located at the intersection of Rainbow and John B. Daly Boulevards, and would feature about 600,000 square feet (55,700 sqm) of "high-security, technologically advanced data center space".
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| 15.68 miles | H5: Buffalo I |
In 2025, H5 acquired this data center outside Buffalo, New York, from former Internet giant Yahoo!.
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| 15.84 miles | H5: Buffalo II DC2 |
Verizon purchased Yahoo in 2017 and started $28 million, 75,000-square-foot expansion of its center on Crown Drive in the town industrial park.
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| 15.89 miles | H5: Buffalo II |
Yahoo launched the second facility of its Lockport campus in 2015. The company first announced the $170-million data center expansion project in New York State in October 2013.
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March 16, 2023 Buffalo
The University at Buffalo School of Management (UB) has announced that recent research has discovered a strategy to conserve data center energy consumption and optimize processing performance. It found that data center managers can reduce energy consumption 10-30%. This can be done, the...
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Discussions have begun around the transformation of the disused NRG Power Plant in Dunkirk, New York, into a new data center. The 76-acre site was operational from the 1950s to 2015 has been pinned as a potential location in a report by the City of Dunkirk and Chautauqua County. Dunkirk is near...
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