CenturyLink is a data center in Salem, OR, US. The facility is currently operational. It sits in the Salem data-center market on the WECC grid, which DC Hub's Data Center Power Index currently rates AVOID, with an estimated 16.6-month time-to-power. Operators should weigh interconnection risk here — the market screens constrained on grid headroom and time-to-power.
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Data Center Power Index verdict for Salem — the market this facility sits in.
Full DCPI breakdown →DC Hub analyst read on Salem — the market this facility sits in (full deep-dive →).
Salem's data center footprint remains minimal, with only 3 tracked facilities totaling 0 MW of operational capacity, representing effectively no material presence in the regional infrastructure landscape. The market is currently serviced by a fragmented operator base: Sify Technologies Limited, the State of Oregon, and Stayton Cooperative Telephone Company each control single facilities. This distribution reflects the nascent state of the market and the absence of any dominant institutional player capable of driving standardized operations or economies of scale. The DCPI verdict of AVOID is a clear constraint signal for prospective acquirers and operators. With an excess-power score of 48/100 and a constraint score of 37/100, Salem sits in the lower-middle range for grid availability—sufficient for modest incremental deployments but insufficient to support large-scale hyperscale…
Published DC Hub data for this location.
DC Hub tracks 64 operating generating units totalling 175 MW within about 50 km of Salem, US. Generation mix shapes both carbon profile and interconnection options for a site at this location.
Source: Global Energy Monitor unit inventory, operating units only. Counts are units, not plants.
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