Riverview Innovation & Technology Campus (RITC)

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3875 River Rd
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Future facility in planning stage

Riverview Innovation & Technology Campus (RITC)

Site planned for 2027 and has expansions through 2029
Lot Size: 140 acres

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.

Site History

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
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6.64 miles Lumen Buffalo 2
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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.
7.21 miles HostPapa BUF1
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7.91 miles Lumen Buffalo 1
9.19 miles Crypto Mining Data Center Request Dataset
Wattum Management's Bitcoin mining facility, named "November 2," is located in Niagara Falls, New York.
9.50 miles Urbacon: Niagara DC3
This facility is a part of Urbacon's Niagara Digital Campus in New York.
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.
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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In 2025, H5 acquired this data center outside Buffalo, New York, from former Internet giant Yahoo!.
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.
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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