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 23.0-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 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 totaling 6,100 MW, concentrated among four major operators: Vantage Data Centers 4 facilities, Unknown operator 3, and INOC, LLC 3, with Firstlight Albany and IBM Building each holding single assets. The market exhibits fragmented ownership and modest scale relative to tier-one metros, reflecting Albany's secondary-market positioning within the Northeast corridor. The Data Center Power Index verdict of AVOID is driven by two structural constraints that warrant serious investor attention. An excess-power score of 38/100 signals insufficient marginal generation capacity to support incremental colocation demand or hyperscale expansion, while a constraint score of 48/100 indicates moderate but material limitations in grid reliability and power distribution infrastructure. For acquisition-focused investors, this combination means…
Published DC Hub data for this location.
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