DeKalb Meta Data Center is a data center operated by Meta Platforms. The facility is currently operational. It sits in the Rochelle data-center market on the PJM grid, which DC Hub's Data Center Power Index currently rates AVOID, with an estimated 31.4-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 Rochelle — the market this facility sits in.
Full DCPI breakdown →DC Hub analyst read on Rochelle — the market this facility sits in (full deep-dive →).
Rochelle currently hosts four tracked facilities totaling 0 MW of operational capacity, representing a nascent market with minimal incumbent infrastructure. The operator base is fragmented across municipal Rochelle Municipal Utilities, enterprise Meta, and insurance-sector ALLSTATE DATA CENTER players, each operating a single facility. This distribution suggests Rochelle lacks a dominant hyperscale or colocation anchor tenant, leaving the market vulnerable to single-operator dependency dynamics. The DCPI verdict of AVOID reflects material structural headwinds for acquisition-stage investors. The excess-power score of 44/100 indicates inadequate surplus generation capacity to support incremental demand without infrastructure upgrades, while the constraint score of 50/100 signals moderate but material limitations on grid reliability and expansion feasibility. For buy-side investors, this…
Published DC Hub data for this location.
DC Hub tracks 76 operating generating units totalling 6,945 MW within about 50 km of this location. Generation mix shapes both carbon profile and interconnection options for a site at this location.
Source: Global Energy Monitor unit inventory, operating units only. Counts are units, not plants.
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