Expedient Boston

Expedient Boston is a data center operated by Expedient in Medford, MA, US. The facility is currently operational. It sits in the Somerville data-center market on the ISONE grid, which DC Hub's Data Center Power Index currently rates AVOID, with an estimated 11.0-month time-to-power. Operators should weigh interconnection risk here — the market screens constrained on grid headroom and time-to-power.

Status
Operational
Market
Medford
State
MA
Country
US

Market intelligence

AVOID

Data Center Power Index verdict for Somerville — the market this facility sits in.

Full DCPI breakdown →

Market context

DC Hub analyst read on Somerville — the market this facility sits in (full deep-dive →).

Somerville's data center footprint remains minimal, with only 8 tracked facilities totaling zero operational megawatts—a striking absence of deployed infrastructure in what should be a mature regional hub. CoreSite maintains the strongest presence with 2 facilities, followed by a fragmented operator base including CORESITE RE 70 INNERBELT LLC, FirstLight Fiber, Inc., TOWARDEX Technologies International, Inc., and one unidentified operator. This extreme concentration of supply CoreSite controlling 25% of operator count combined with the complete absence of measured capacity suggests either undercounting of operational assets or a market that has failed to scale beyond early-stage deployments. The lack of any tracked megawattage is incompatible with a functioning regional data center market. The DCPI verdict of AVOID—driven by excess-power scoring of 35/100 and constraint scoring of…

Location

Area Medford, MA, US

Approximate area (about 1 km)

Market & grid context

Published DC Hub data for this location.

MarketSomerville
Grid operatorISONE
Data Center Power IndexAVOID
Est. time to power11.0 months
LocationMedford, US
Nearest substationwithin 1 km

Fiber connectivity

Networks recorded as present at or immediately around Expedient Boston 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.

Internet Vikings International

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.

Power generation nearby

DC Hub tracks 181 operating generating units totalling 5,479 MW within about 50 km of Medford, US. Generation mix shapes both carbon profile and interconnection options for a site at this location.

Oil/Gas4,875 MW · 22 units · 89%
Utility-Scale Solar437 MW · 150 units · 8%
Bioenergy158 MW · 4 units · 3%
Wind10 MW · 5 units · 0%

Source: Global Energy Monitor unit inventory, operating units only. Counts are units, not plants.

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