The owners of the former Tonawanda Coke plant, Jon Williams and John Yensan, plan a 500,000-square-foot data center development on the site with an unnamed data center developer, a proposed $2 billion investment. In June 2026 the developer paused its site plan and environmental (SEQRA) review with the Town of Tonawanda Planning Board while it waited on grid studies from NYISO and National Grid. Cleanup and demolition of the coke plant continue under New York's Brownfield Cleanup Program.
In August 2026 the town adopted a one-year moratorium on new large data center applications, a month after New York paused state permits for large new data centers. The Clean Air Coalition of WNY and local residents oppose the project. The coalition wants the site used for renewable energy generation and storage.
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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 | Lumen Buffalo 2 | |
| 6.64 miles | hudsonvalleyhost Buffalo | |
| 6.90 miles | DigiPower X: New York 1 |
DigiPower X's Erie County facility in Buffalo, New York, was Digihost's first operational mining site and is being converted to HPC and AI capacity with modular GPU pods at 100 kW per rack, offered as GPU-as-a-service or colocation.
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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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| 7.21 miles | CentriLogic Buffalo | |
| 7.21 miles | HostPapa BUF1 |
Formerly known as "ColoCrossing BUF1"
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| 7.91 miles | Lumen Buffalo 1 | |
| 9.19 miles | Plaza GammaInterested in this information?Contact us | Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us |
| 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 DC1 |
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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| 16.14 miles | Real Estate Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us | Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us |
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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June 20, 2021 Buffalo
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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