Frontier Science is a data center in Amherst, NY, US. The facility is currently operational. It sits in the Buffalo 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 Buffalo — the market this facility sits in.
Full DCPI breakdown →DC Hub analyst read on Buffalo — the market this facility sits in (full deep-dive →).
Buffalo's data center market comprises 19 tracked facilities totaling 1,029 MW, dominated by 365 Data Centers operating 3 sites, TeraWulf 2 sites, and a fragmented tail of single-site operators including CentriLogic, Cogent Communications, and Centurylink Buffalo. The market's DCPI score—excess-power 41/100, constraint 51/100—reflects a structural imbalance: available power capacity significantly outpaces near-term demand absorption, while grid constraints remain moderate but non-trivial. Recent M&A activity shows no completed transactions, and Google's publicly announced Buffalo-area investment documented in local reporting and company website materials remains in planning phases without confirmed capacity allocations or deal closure. For acquisition-focused capital, the AVOID verdict is direct. An excess-power score of 41 signals that incremental demand cannot reliably absorb…
Published DC Hub data for this location.
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