FirstLight Data Center is a data center operated by FirstLight in Portland, ME, US. The facility is currently operational. It sits in the Portland, ME data-center market on the ISONE grid, which DC Hub's Data Center Power Index currently rates AVOID, with an estimated 10.0-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 Portland, ME — the market this facility sits in.
Full DCPI breakdown →DC Hub analyst read on Portland, ME — the market this facility sits in (full deep-dive →).
Portland, ME's data center footprint remains modest and nascent: only 6 tracked facilities aggregate 10 MW of capacity, distributed across five operators with no single dominant player. CENTRA Digital Interconnect operates two facilities, while Consolidated Communications, Inc., FirstLight, NNENIX, and Nautilus Data Technologies each operate one. This extreme fragmentation reflects an immature market without consolidation momentum—no recent M&A has been tracked in the region. The DCPI verdict of AVOID is driven by two structural red flags: an excess-power score of 33/100 signals acute power scarcity, while a constraint score of 23/100 indicates severe operational limitations that will block growth at scale. For buyers and operators, this combination is prohibitive. The low excess-power rating means available grid supply or on-site generation cannot reliably support incremental tenant…
Published DC Hub data for this location.
Networks recorded as present at or immediately around FirstLight Data Center 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.
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 28 operating generating units totalling 1,566 MW within about 50 km of Portland, 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 Portland tracked by DC Hub — compare power, operators, and grid context across the market.
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