Firstlight Firstlight is a data center in Albany, US. The facility is currently announced. It sits in the Albany data-center market on the NYISO grid, which DC Hub's Data Center Power Index currently rates AVOID, with an estimated 23.8-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 Albany — the market this facility sits in.
Full DCPI breakdown →DC Hub analyst read on Albany — the market this facility sits in (full deep-dive →).
Albany's data center market comprises 21 tracked facilities delivering 6,118 MW across a fragmented operator base, but faces a critical headwind: local lawmakers have imposed a one-year construction ban on new data center development following sustained community opposition. The excess-power score of 41/100 indicates surplus generation capacity that cannot be readily absorbed, while the constraint score of 50/100 signals binding infrastructure bottlenecks—primarily transmission and interconnection—that prevent efficient deployment of available power. This combination creates a structural mismatch between supply and demand utilization that has persisted without recent M&A activity to consolidate or remediate capacity. For acquisition-focused investors, the DCPI verdict of AVOID is unambiguous. The excess-power signal indicates that incremental demand absorption cannot justify acquisition…
Published DC Hub data for this location.
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