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 16.9-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 effectively non-operational, with three tracked facilities across Alpha Innovations, Alpha Technologies Inc., and SecureNet collectively representing zero megawatts of deployed capacity. The market's infrastructure readiness is severely constrained: the excess-power score of 32/100 indicates minimal available grid capacity to support expansion, while the constraint rating of 26/100 signals substantial barriers to facility deployment and scaling. With no recent M&A activity recorded, the market lacks the institutional validation and capital momentum that typically precedes growth phases in comparable regions. The DCPI verdict to AVOID reflects a dual-constraint problem that materially limits investor returns. The excess-power score—measuring unutilized grid headroom—sits in the bottom third of viable markets, meaning operators cannot rely on…
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