Lightboard ★ New England is a data center operated by Lightboard ★ in Springfield, MA, US. It carries a reported power capacity of 3.0 MW and is currently operational. It sits in the Springfield data-center market on the ISONE grid, which DC Hub's Data Center Power Index currently rates AVOID, with an estimated 19.0-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 Springfield — the market this facility sits in.
Full DCPI breakdown →DC Hub analyst read on Springfield — the market this facility sits in (full deep-dive →).
Springfield's data center footprint remains nascent, with 9 tracked facilities totaling 15 MW across a fragmented operator base dominated by regional and national carriers. Lightboard operates the largest single facility, followed by four single-asset operators: Bluebird Fiber, Cogent Communications, Crown Castle, and LexisNexus Springfield. The market shows zero recent M&A activity, suggesting limited institutional appetite or deal flow despite broader sector momentum visible in larger metros. The AVOID verdict reflects a structural mismatch between supply and demand fundamentals. An excess-power rating of 29/100 indicates meaningful unutilized capacity across the installed base—likely a result of low utilization rates at legacy or carrier-owned assets—while the constraint score of 38/100 signals that available power infrastructure remains the binding bottleneck for expansion. For…
Published DC Hub data for this location.
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