Google Southern California is a data center operated by Google in CA, US. It carries a reported power capacity of 330.0 MW and is currently planned. It sits in the Emeryville data-center market on the CAISO grid, which DC Hub's Data Center Power Index currently rates CAUTION, with an estimated 47.5-month time-to-power. The market shows mixed signals — validate live grid headroom and queue depth before committing capacity.
Data Center Power Index verdict for Emeryville — the market this facility sits in.
Full DCPI breakdown →DC Hub analyst read on Emeryville — the market this facility sits in (full deep-dive →).
Emeryville's tracked data center footprint remains nascent, with five facilities representing zero operational megawatts—a market essentially without deployed infrastructure. The operator landscape is highly fragmented, split equally among Lumen Technologies operating two distinct entities, Open Computing Facility, VPLS, and an unidentified player, with no single actor commanding meaningful scale. This distribution reflects early-stage market penetration rather than consolidation. The absence of recent M&A activity underscores minimal investment velocity in the region to date. The DCPI verdict of CAUTION—anchored by excess-power at 65/100 and operational constraint at 57/100—signals structural instability that should temper near-term acquisition enthusiasm. The excess-power score indicates oversupply relative to near-term demand absorption, suggesting that greenfield or expansion plays…
Published DC Hub data for this location.
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