Crown Castle Boston (1 Summer) is a data center operated by Crown Castle Inc. in Boston, MA, US. The facility is currently operational. It sits in the Boston data-center market on the ISONE grid, which DC Hub's Data Center Power Index currently rates AVOID, with an estimated 11.5-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 Boston — the market this facility sits in.
Full DCPI breakdown →DC Hub analyst read on Boston — the market this facility sits in (full deep-dive →).
Boston's data center market is severely undersized and operationally constrained, with 67 tracked facilities delivering just 10 MW across a fragmented operator base. The DCPI scores tell a stark story: excess-power capacity sits at 31/100, indicating tight availability, while infrastructure constraint registers 37/100—both metrics well below viability thresholds. DataBank leads with three facilities, followed by Enzu and CoreSite with two each, with the remainder scattered among regional players like Cambridge Network Solutions Somerville and CenturyLink Boston. This distribution reflects a market dominated by mid-tier operators and legacy regional carriers, not the tier-one players consolidating hyperscale capacity elsewhere. The dual DCPI verdict to AVOID applies directly to acquisition-stage investors and growth-focused operators. A constraint score of 37/100 signals that available…
Published DC Hub data for this location.
Networks recorded as present at or immediately around Crown Castle Boston (1 Summer) in public peering records. Treat this as a map of who is there, not as a list of contracted cross-connects — availability, diversity and pricing are the operator’s to confirm.
Further networks are recorded at this location beyond those listed here.
Source: PeeringDB carrier-to-facility records, matched to this site by location. A network listed here may sit in a neighbouring hall or an adjacent building at the same address, so presence is reported for the location rather than for a single suite.
DC Hub tracks 184 operating generating units totalling 5,235 MW within about 50 km of Boston, 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.
Comparable facilities in Boston tracked by DC Hub — compare power, operators, and grid context across the market.
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