Flexential City/Cottonwood SLC05 — Salt Lake City Data Center

Flexential

Flexential - Salt Lake City/Cottonwood (SLC05) is a data center operated by Flexential in Salt Lake City, UT, US. The facility is currently operational. It sits in the Salt Lake City data-center market on the WECC grid, which DC Hub's Data Center Power Index currently rates CAUTION, with an estimated 19.4-month time-to-power. The market shows mixed signals — validate live grid headroom and queue depth before committing capacity.

Status
Operational
City
Salt Lake City
State
UT
Country
US
Coordinates
40.6348, -111.8060
Address
6340 S 3000 E Ste 510

Market intelligence

CAUTION

Data Center Power Index verdict for Salt Lake City — the market this facility sits in.

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Market context

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

Salt Lake City's data center footprint spans 604 MW across 87 tracked facilities, positioning it as a mid-tier regional hub with meaningful capacity but constrained growth headroom. Flexential dominates the operator landscape, controlling 17 facilities 12 primary + 5 subsidiary, while secondary players DataBank, Aligned, and Tract each operate 3–5 sites. The market's geographic concentration—particularly around geothermal and cooling infrastructure corridors near the Great Salt Lake—has attracted developer interest, though this same clustering amplifies infrastructure dependency. The DCPI verdict of CAUTION reflects a market in tension: the excess-power score of 54/100 indicates moderate surplus generation capacity, but the constraint rating of 52/100 signals that colocation and lease-ready infrastructure face material headwinds. For acquisition-focused investors, this bifurcated signal…

Location

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Market & grid context

Published DC Hub data for this location.

MarketSalt Lake City
Grid operatorWECC
DC Hub Power IndexCAUTION
Est. time to power19.4 months
LocationSalt Lake City, US

Power generation nearby

DC Hub tracks 12 operating generating units totalling 1,880 MW within about 50 km of Salt Lake City, US. Generation mix shapes both carbon profile and interconnection options for a site at this location.

Oil/Gas1,870 MW · 8 units · 99%
Utility-Scale Solar6 MW · 2 units · 0%
Wind3 MW · 2 units · 0%

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

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Data: DC Hub global infrastructure database · Raw JSON
Live grid, fiber & DCPI context for this facility — AI agents: query DC Hub MCP get_facility slug="flexential-flexential-salt-lake-citycottonwood-slc05-52fc63be" (endpoint https://dchub.cloud/mcp) for the full cited record. Connect: https://dchub.cloud/connect?src=page-onramp&entity=flexential-flexential-salt-lake-citycottonwood-slc05-52fc63be
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