{"comps":{"land":[],"powered_shell":[]},"hero":{"composite_score":null,"computed_at":"2026-10-27T08:30:56.370803+00:00","constraint_score":60.5,"excess_power":30.3,"iso":"PJM","lat":40.06,"lng":-82.77,"name":"New Albany","queue_wait_months":null,"slug":"new-albany","state":"OH","time_to_power_mo":56.9,"time_to_power_months":56.9,"verdict":"AVOID"},"is_pro":true,"kpis":{"facility_count":41,"headline_basis":"every facility listing DC Hub tracks in this market (operational, under construction, planned and announced; verified and unverified listings included), deduplicated by name + operator across the facilities and discovered_facilities tables. MW is summed over the listings that report capacity (mw_reporting_count of facility_count), so read it as a floor.","lease_rate":null,"mw_reporting_count":6,"operational_mw":585.0,"pipeline_mw":700.0,"queue_months":null,"top_operator":{"facility_count":7,"name":"Google"},"total_mw":1815.0,"unverified_included":true,"vacancy_pct":null},"live_as_of":{"age_hours":0.2,"iso":"2026-10-27T08:30:56.370803+00:00"},"ma":[],"ok":true,"open_access":"Open to every caller: this is one of the 20 largest US data-center markets by tracked capacity, and its full market briefing (grid, risk, time to power, scores) is free.","operators":[{"facility_count":7,"operator":"Google","ranked_by":"facility_count","total_mw":0.0},{"facility_count":6,"operator":"Amazon Web Services","ranked_by":"facility_count","total_mw":800.0},{"facility_count":4,"operator":"Quality Technology Services","ranked_by":"facility_count","total_mw":0.0},{"facility_count":3,"operator":"Vantage","ranked_by":"facility_count","total_mw":0.0},{"facility_count":2,"operator":"Meta","ranked_by":"facility_count","total_mw":0.0}],"outlook":{"generated_at":"2026-10-26T09:21:48.745594+00:00","narrative_md":"New Albany's data center market comprises 41 tracked facilities totaling 1,815 MW across operational, under-construction, and planned assets. Google leads with 7 facilities, followed by Amazon Web Services with 6 sites, while Quality Technology Services and Vantage operate 4 and 3 facilities respectively. The market has drawn sufficient infrastructure investment to warrant grid expansion\u2014recent reporting indicates New Albany secured a dedicated electric grid to support data center power demands, reflecting acknowledgment of the sector's role in the region's economic footprint.\n\nThe DCPI verdict of AVOID stems from a critical structural mismatch: excess-power capacity rated 30/100 combined with a constraint score of 60/100 signals that while power supply exists, acquisition and delivery mechanisms remain inefficient. Buyers pursuing capacity expansion or new facility development face material friction in securing reliable, cost-effective power access. A constraint score at 60/100 places New Albany in the same problematic range as Columbus, where power-acquisition barriers have demonstrably increased deployment costs and compressed project economics. For investors evaluating New Albany against competing geographies, the combination of constrained power procurement and modest excess generation capacity creates a structural headwind that outweighs the benefit of existing operator density.\n\nDeal flow in New Albany shows stagnation: no recent transactions were tracked against the 41-facility footprint. This absence is notable given the scale of tracked capacity and the market's operator concentration. The geographic clustering of hyperscaler assets\u2014Google and AWS together control 13 of 41 facilities\u2014suggests that expansion capital has already flowed to preferred operators rather than generating secondary-market liquidity or attracting new entrants. Aligned Data Centers, which has executed multiple acquisitions in adjacent markets, has not appeared in New Albany transactions, indicating either saturation among existing operators or insufficient opportunity economics to justify entry or acquisition activity.\n\nForward momentum depends on whether New Albany's grid infrastructure investments translate into tangible constraint relief, though current DCPI signals suggest near-term power availability will remain a material constraint on new deployments.","rationale":null,"verdict":"AVOID","word_count":317},"pipeline":[{"eta":null,"facility":"Stargate Ohio Campus","operator":"Stargate (OpenAI/SoftBank/Oracle)","power_mw":500.0,"status":"Planned"},{"eta":null,"facility":"STACK New Albany OH","operator":"STACK Infrastructure","power_mw":100.0,"status":"Under Construction"},{"eta":null,"facility":"Compass Columbus Campus","operator":"Compass Datacenters","power_mw":100.0,"status":"Under Construction"}],"power_grid":{"gen_additions_mw":1455.1,"interconnection_pending_mw":298078.4,"iso":"PJM","iso_queue":{"as_of":"2026-10-27","as_of_basis":"live_feed_fetch_date","basis_note":"Active serial + Transition Cycle (TC1/TC2) + Cycle 1 generation requests, sum of MFO (maximum facility output, not firm MW capacity); excludes transmission-service requests, In Service and Withdrawn. Since 2026-10-20 this total includes PJM's Cycle 1 requests, which the serial export alone did not list (that is why it rose from ~135 GW); not a PJM refresh","iso":"PJM","queue_kind":"generation_queue","queued_generation_gw":374.2,"source_name":"PJM cycle + serial service request status (active generation requests, sum of MFO)","source_url":"https://www.pjm.com/planning/m/cycle-service-request-status"},"queue_capacity_mw":62081.6,"queue_wait_months":null,"reserve_margin_pct":14.5,"time_to_power_as_of":"2026-10-27T08:30:56.370803+00:00","time_to_power_basis":"DCPI modelled months to energize a new large load in this market (method: https://dchub.cloud/dcpi/methodology); a model estimate, not a utility date","time_to_power_months":56.9},"redirect_to":null,"requested":"new-albany","risk":{"drought_months_d2_plus":null,"errors":{"drought_months_d2_plus":"no_drought_source_ingested"},"water_band":2,"water_band_label":"Low-Medium","water_category":"mean of 26 Aqueduct 4.0 baseline-annual basins (arid counted as ","water_stress":16.4,"wildfire_seismic_note":null},"slug":"new-albany","tier":"FREE"}