Caterpillar - Mason County is a data center operated by Caterpillar in Mason County, WV, US. It carries a reported power capacity of 2000.0 MW and is currently planned. It sits in the South Charleston data-center market on the PJM grid, which DC Hub's Data Center Power Index currently rates AVOID, with an estimated 10.3-month time-to-power. Operators should weigh interconnection risk here — the market screens constrained on grid headroom and time-to-power.
Data Center Power Index verdict for South Charleston — the market this facility sits in.
Full DCPI breakdown →DC Hub analyst read on South Charleston — the market this facility sits in (full deep-dive →).
South Charleston's data center market is minimal and underdeveloped, with only 3 tracked facilities totaling 6 MW across three single-facility operators. The market is fragmented by design—Alpha Innovations, Alpha Technologies Inc., and SecureNet each control exactly 1 MW of capacity, indicating no dominant player and no consolidation momentum. This atomized structure reflects a market still in early formation, lacking the scale or operator concentration seen in adjacent West Virginia contexts where 100 MW development proposals are under discussion. The DCPI verdict of AVOID stems from two critical constraints: excess-power capacity scores only 32/100, signaling severely limited headroom for incremental load, while infrastructure constraint rating of 30/100 indicates fundamental grid or interconnection limitations. For prospective buyers or lessees, this combination means neither…
Published DC Hub data for this location.
Comparable facilities in Mason County tracked by DC Hub — compare power, operators, and grid context across the market.
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