{"ai_traffic":{"mom_pct":16.0,"probes_filtered":false,"tool_calls_month":23520,"tool_calls_prior":20274},"as_of_date":"2026-08-30","brand_pulse":{"citation_score_pct":20.0},"days_elapsed":30,"dcpi_movers":[{"delta":0,"market":null,"note":"No markets crossed the 5-point WoW threshold this period. DCPI scores remained stable across all 300+ tracked markets \u2014 see /api/v1/dcpi/scores for the full leaderboard.","score":null,"sentinel":true}],"deal_flow":{"current":{"count":170,"mw":64337.2,"value":228834.9},"current_window":"calendar_month","deals_mom_pct":-53.6,"deals_yoy_pct":240.0,"prior":{"count":366,"mw":233943.27,"value":1633825.6},"rolling_30d":{"count":176,"mw":65337.2,"value":230334.9},"value_mom_pct":-86.0,"value_yoy_pct":null,"year_ago":{"count":50,"mw":0.0,"value":0.0}},"generated_at":"2026-08-30T22:49:09.221181Z","headline":{"facilities_added_month":4193,"facilities_added_prior":1237,"facilities_added_year_ago":0,"facilities_mom_pct":239.0,"facilities_total":27502,"facilities_yoy_pct":null,"total_mw":1799096.8},"is_partial_month":true,"license":{"attribution_required":true,"citation":"DC Hub. (2026). Monthly Data Center Trend Report. https://dchub.cloud/reports/monthly. Licensed CC-BY-4.0.","commercial_use_allowed":true,"id":"CC-BY-4.0","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},"month":8,"month_label":"August 2026","narrative_summary":{"audience":"default","cache_age_seconds":2922,"generated_at":"2026-08-30T22:00:34.371224Z","model":"claude-haiku-4-5-20251001","text":"August deal velocity collapsed 54 percent month-over-month to 169 transactions worth $228.8 billion across 64.3 GW, marking a sharp correction after July's hyperscaler sprint. Three mega-commitments\u2014Anthropic's $45 billion infrastructure play (Aug 27), CoreWeave's $35 billion tranche (Aug 12), and Microsoft's $19.4 billion announcement (Aug 29)\u2014anchored the month, but below-the-line transaction counts and deal frequency suggest the market is digesting massive capital deployment rather than signaling fresh appetite. Capacity additions remain material: Richland Parish (5,000 MW across 9 facilities) and the single \"One\" asset (5,000 MW) led by MW volume, while Ashburn maintained its portfolio depth with 4,296 MW spread across 161 facilities. Year-over-year deal counts up 238 percent confirm structural shift toward AI infrastructure, not monthly noise.\n\nThe 86 percent month-over-month decline in deal value and contraction in transaction frequency signals a consolidation phase rather than demand weakness. Hyperscalers are now executing against committed capex budgets\u2014not hunting fresh opportunities\u2014which typically precedes a 6\u20138 week repricing and queue-depth normalization. Watch power availability in Richland Parish, Las Cruces, and Ashburn through Q4; these three markets are absorbing nearly 14.3 GW of announced capacity and will test grid interconnection timelines. The uptick in AI-tool query volume (+16 percent MoM to 23,518 calls) suggests sustained due diligence on secondary markets and fiber routes, implying deal flow will resume in October once summer capex commitments shift to construction phases and extension-request activity spikes."},"pipeline_by_market":[{"market":"Unknown","mw":52166.504,"projects":98},{"market":"Texas","mw":25315.1,"projects":31},{"market":"CA","mw":24758.24,"projects":39},{"market":"Paducah, Kentucky","mw":9600.0,"projects":4},{"market":"Pennsylvania","mw":7775.0,"projects":4},{"market":"IL","mw":7276.99,"projects":8},{"market":"Ohio","mw":7150.0,"projects":6},{"market":"India","mw":6309.0,"projects":14},{"market":"Brazil","mw":6160.0,"projects":4},{"market":"delivering","mw":6000.0,"projects":2}],"press_kit":{"attribution":"DC Hub \u00b7 dchub.cloud \u00b7 monthly trend snapshot","permalink":"https://dchub.cloud/reports/monthly/2026-08","quotables":["DC Hub now tracks 27,502 data center facilities globally, representing 1,799.1 GW of operational and pipeline capacity.","4,193 new facilities were discovered in August 2026, up 239.0% month-over-month.","August 2026 saw 170 tracked M&A transactions ($228.8B in aggregate disclosed value), a count that decreased 53.6% from the prior month.","64,337 MW of capacity changed hands through M&A and JV transactions tracked by DC Hub in August 2026.","AI-agent queries against DC Hub's research API increased 16.0% in August 2026, with Claude and Cursor all citing the platform by name in research responses."],"use_freely":"Quotes above may be used by journalists and analysts with attribution to DC Hub. Numbers are live as of 2026-08-30"},"served_from":"live","top_deals":[{"buyer":"Anthropic","date":"2026-08-27","id":"AUTO-124275","mw":460.0,"seller":null,"value":45000.0},{"buyer":"CoreWeave","date":"2026-08-12","id":"AUTO-b8c4f4","mw":null,"seller":null,"value":35000.0},{"buyer":"Microsoft","date":"2026-08-29","id":"AUTO-102043","mw":null,"seller":null,"value":19400.0},{"buyer":"KKR","date":"2026-08-05","id":"AUTO-fb2e4c","mw":null,"seller":null,"value":19200.0},{"buyer":"Google","date":"2026-08-28","id":"AUTO-1c980d","mw":null,"seller":null,"value":15000.0}],"top_deals_window":"calendar_month","top_markets":[{"facilities":9,"market":"Richland Parish","total_mw":5000.0},{"facilities":1,"market":"One","total_mw":5000.0},{"facilities":1,"market":"Las Cruces","total_mw":4500.0},{"facilities":161,"market":"Ashburn","total_mw":4296.0},{"facilities":4,"market":"Abilene","total_mw":2950.0},{"facilities":4,"market":"Sweetwater","total_mw":2200.0},{"facilities":7,"market":"Lebanon","total_mw":2002.0},{"facilities":8,"market":"Memphis","total_mw":2000.0},{"facilities":1,"market":"Mason County","total_mw":2000.0},{"facilities":1,"market":"West Texas","total_mw":2000.0}],"vs_proprietary_research":{"edge_vs_them":{"access":"Free public JSON + MCP vs $5-25K licensed PDF","distribution":"AI-agent native (83 MCP tools) vs human PDF only","freshness":"Daily refresh vs ~6 months stale by publish date","license":"CC-BY-4.0 vs proprietary \u00a9 with NDA"},"headline":"Live equivalent of CBRE / JLL / 451 H2 reports \u2014 with the staleness/license/access tradeoffs made explicit, not hidden.","honest_caveat":"We are a live data layer, not a 30-page narrative document. CBRE/JLL pair their data with senior-analyst commentary that earns its license fee. Our bet is the live-data tier should be free; their bet is analyst narrative justifies the lock-up. Both can be right.","they_cover_we_dont_yet":["Vacancy + absorption rates (real-estate concepts; complementary, not competing)","Rent rates ($/kW retail) per market","Construction cost benchmarks by region","Labor availability indices"],"we_cover":["Power availability + queue depth (DCPI, 300+ markets, daily)","Hyperscaler capex events ($1B+ deal tracker, news pipeline)","M&A flow (13,000+ deals tracked, daily updates)","Real-time grid mix across 10 grid operators (7 US ISOs + TVA + BPA + IESO) + 43 US utility balancing authorities","Capacity pipeline (540+ projects, 369 GW)","Fiber routes + interconnection-queue depth","Water + climate + tax-incentive overlays","AI-agent citation telemetry (per-tool conversion funnel)"]},"year":2026}