Iron City No. 1 Power Generator and Compute Center is a data center in Karthaus, PA. The facility is currently operational. It sits in the Bethlehem data-center market on the PJM grid, which DC Hub's Data Center Power Index currently rates AVOID, with an estimated 10.7-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 Bethlehem — the market this facility sits in.
Full DCPI breakdown →DC Hub analyst read on Bethlehem — the market this facility sits in (full deep-dive →).
Bethlehem presents a constrained market with minimal operational scale and fundamental infrastructure limitations. The market currently comprises 7 tracked facilities totaling 0 MW of deployed capacity, indicating either early-stage development or stalled expansion. The DCPI scoring—excess-power at 36/100 and constraint at 31/100—reflects a market struggling with both power availability and physical expansion headroom. The operator base is heavily concentrated, with TierPoint entities controlling 4 of 7 facilities including two separate legal entities: TierPoint and TierPoint, LLC, signaling limited competitive diversity and potential operational redundancy. The AVOID verdict is warranted for institutional investors and capacity-focused operators. An excess-power score of 36/100 means Bethlehem lacks sufficient surplus generation capacity to reliably support hyperscale or high-density…
Published DC Hub data for this location.
Comparable facilities in Karthaus tracked by DC Hub — compare power, operators, and grid context across the market.
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