Cogent Billings is a data center operated by Cogent Communications, Inc. in Billings, MT, US. It carries a reported power capacity of 3.0 MW and is currently operational. It sits in the Billings data-center market on the WECC grid, which DC Hub's Data Center Power Index currently rates AVOID, with an estimated 7.6-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 Billings — the market this facility sits in.
Full DCPI breakdown →DC Hub analyst read on Billings — the market this facility sits in (full deep-dive →).
Billings' data center market remains deeply fragmented and undersized, with only 12 MW across five tracked facilities and no dominant operator—Cogent Communications, Parsec Data Management, YRIX, iConnect Montana, and an unidentified operator each control single assets. The market's DCPI scores reveal critical structural constraints: an excess-power rating of 48/100 signals insufficient surplus capacity to attract modern workloads, while a constraint score of 26/100 reflects severe limitations in grid resilience, cooling infrastructure, or expansion headroom. These dual weaknesses place Billings among the weakest-positioned regional markets, comparable to peer markets like Spokane and Breinigsville where fragmentation and undersized assets have similarly dampened institutional interest. For acquisition-focused investors, the AVOID verdict is unambiguous. The market lacks both the power…
Published DC Hub data for this location.
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