April 2, 2025

In an interview with WGRZ-Buffalo this week, MRB Group economic consultant Michael N’dolo explained that the City of Niagara Falls stands on the cusp of an enormous economic boom if the Data Centers at Niagara Digital Campus get built.

“There’s going to be trillions of dollars of data centers built,” N’dolo said. “Why not in Niagara Falls?”

Based in Rochester, MRB Group is a well-respected Western New York engineering, architecture, and municipal planning company. MRB previously worked on notable Western New York projects that include the Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy for Erie County, the Finger Lakes Regional Economic Development Council’s most recent Economic Development Strategy, and an Advanced Industry Clusters study for Empire State Development.

The interview comes in the wake of an MRB Group study released last week that highlighted the tax revenue, job creation, and economic spin-off benefits that will be generated by the $1.5 billion Niagara Digital Campus data center. The comprehensive study showed that, over 20 years, the Niagara Digital Campus data center would generate tax revenue to the City, County, School District and State of New York in excess of $414 million, while employment earnings would top $1.6 billion.

For the next decade or more, the project will support an average of more than 1,000 new construction  and permanent jobs as various phases of the data center come online. Once fully completed the study estimated more than 770 direct and indirect jobs will be created.

“Understand, this is not pie-in-the-sky” N’dolo told WGRZ. “This is supported by the data.”

A link to the full WGRZ interview is here.  To learn more about the MRB Group study, click here.