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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Riverview Innovation & Technology Campus.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Riverview Innovation & Technology Campus
- Address and locality
- Tonawanda · Erie County · New York
- Official metro area
- Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 300 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 21 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate (provider label: exact; the provider's own note describes an approximate location)
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001259
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Electric utility
- National Grid
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Not established
- Land area
- 140 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced investment
- $2 billion
- Community response
- Provider label: contested
- AI-use label (provider)
- likely
Provider notes
Energy. Developer states ~91% emission-free electricity due to proximity to the Niagara Power Project (hydro) and Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station. SEQRA/site plan review temporarily paused while awaiting NYISO and National Grid clarification on transmission-upgrade costs/timeline. A $50M on-site electrical substation is planned.
Water. Community opposition specifically cited cooling-system noise (24/7 operation, cited by residents as 75-105+ decibels) as a top concern at the June 3, 2026 Planning Board meeting; specific cooling technology not yet disclosed by the developer.
Community. Hundreds of residents packed a June 3, 2026 Town of Tonawanda Planning Board meeting to oppose the project; concerns included cooling-system noise, comparisons to the Love Canal environmental disaster, and grid-strain concerns raised by Clean Air Coalition board chair Jim Jones. NY State Senator Jeremy Zellner (co-sponsor of a first-in-the-nation statewide data center moratorium bill) and Assemblyman Bill Conrad have both raised concerns publicly. Planning Board tabled further discussion pending a revised site plan application.
What the source record says
Site: former Tonawanda Coke Corporation coke-manufacturing plant (operated 1917-2018; TCC bankruptcy), 3875 & 3800 River Road, Town of Tonawanda, Erie County NY - 140 acres. Brownfield developer Jon M. Williams completed acquisition Oct. 10, 2019 and has led an estimated $100M remediation; Honeywell (successor to Allied Chemical/TCC predecessor) also involved. 500,000 sq ft facility proposed. Coordinates are approximate for the River Road parcel. Note: one source names 'Niagara County' but Buffalo News, BTPM, and WBEN independently and consistently identify this as the Town of Tonawanda, Erie County (distinct from the separate City of North Tonawanda in Niagara County) - Erie County used here per majority/independent-source cross-check. NO STATUS CHANGE. As of June 2026 the SEQRA/site-plan review was paused pending NYISO and National Grid results; no permit or construction approval exists. Remains proposed. CONFIRMED ABSENCE (re-checked 2026-09-10, reporting dated 2026-07): the Riverview project had not requested any IDA subsidy as of this reporting, and Erie County's executive has said he would not support the county IDA granting it tax breaks.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2026-06 · source-reported proposed
Hundreds of residents packed a Town of Tonawanda Planning Board meeting on June 3, 2026 opposing the proposed 300MW data center at the former Tonawanda Coke site; the Planning Board voted to table further discussion pending a revised site plan application.
- 2026-07 · source-reported proposed
Developer says the project is 'not on hold' but SEQRA/site plan review is temporarily paused while awaiting NYISO and National Grid clarification on transmission-upgrade costs and timeline; Town Supervisor John Flynn said NYISO's review could take 'several months.'
Sources and attribution
These sources are listed for the whole row. Unless a figure links to its own source, the provider does not mark which one gave it, so a figure may not appear in every source.
- Developer: Proposed $2B AI data center on River Road not on hold, process temporarily delayed · WKBW
- River Road data center on hold amid outcry from residents scarred by Tonawanda Coke fight · Buffalo News
- Data center project at former Tonawanda Coke site 'on hold' · Buffalo Toronto Public Media (BTPM NPR)
- Residents pack meeting to oppose proposed data center at Tonawanda Coke site · Buffalo Toronto Public Media (BTPM NPR)
- Former coke plant near Buffalo eyed for 300MW data center · Data Center Dynamics
- Updates on the Cloud: More Moratoriums on Data Centers · Rockefeller Institute of Government
- Where In New York AI Data Centers Are Being Discussed · Hudson Valley Post
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID riverview-innovation-tech-campus-tonawanda-ny. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
Compute Atlas 1.34.1 with retained prior rows and publication holds. This is a DataCenterData composite, not an unmodified publisher edition. This row uses the captured source from 1.34.1, source as of 2026-10-14T20:40:52.293Z.
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-001259
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
- AI-use label (provider): likely
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Tonawanda, NY · Erie (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Riverview Innovation & Technology Campus
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported proposed
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Status history: 2026-06 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2026-07 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 140 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 300 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: National Grid
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Not established
Provider label: unknown.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $2 billion
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Community response: Provider label: contested
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-21
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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