Facebook Altoona Data Center 4 is a data center operated by Meta in Altoona, IA, US. It carries a reported power capacity of 100.0 MW and is currently operational. It sits in the Altoona data-center market on the MISO grid, which DC Hub's Data Center Power Index currently rates CAUTION, with an estimated 13.8-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 Altoona — the market this facility sits in.
Full DCPI breakdown →DC Hub analyst read on Altoona — the market this facility sits in (full deep-dive →).
Altoona operates as a modest regional facility cluster with 506 MW across 13 tracked properties, heavily concentrated under Meta's control. Meta operates 7 of the 13 facilities, giving the operator dominant market share and operational influence over more than half the tracked capacity. LightEdge Solutions maintains a secondary presence with 2 facilities, while three operators Unknown, Lightedge Des Moines 1, and Lightedge Des Moines 2 hold single-facility positions. This fragmented secondary tier suggests limited institutional consolidation and a market still structured around early-stage or legacy deployments rather than unified investment platforms. The DCPI verdict of AVOID—driven by excess-power constraint 45/100 paired with tight operational constraint 46/100—signals material friction for acquisition-focused investors. The excess-power score indicates insufficient power surplus…
Published DC Hub data for this location.
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