Meta Huntsville Building 5 is a data center operated by Meta Platforms in Huntsville, AL, US. It carries a reported power capacity of 30.0 MW and is currently under construction. It sits in the Huntsville data-center market on the SOCO 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 Huntsville — the market this facility sits in.
Full DCPI breakdown →DC Hub analyst read on Huntsville — the market this facility sits in (full deep-dive →).
Huntsville's data center footprint remains nascent and power-constrained, with 10 tracked facilities totaling 85 MW across a fragmented operator base. The market's excess-power score of 29/100 signals acute supply scarcity, while a constraint rating of 52/100 indicates moderate infrastructure barriers to expansion. Operator concentration is distributed—SimpleHelix and Meta each operate two facilities, with DC BLOX Parent LLC, Meta Platforms, and Peace Communications each running single sites—suggesting no dominant anchor tenant and limited economies of scale. The DCPI verdict of AVOID carries unambiguous implications for acquisition-focused investors: Huntsville presents structural headwinds that override near-term deployment opportunities. An excess-power score below 30/100 means new entrants and existing operators face genuine power procurement bottlenecks rather than temporary…
Published DC Hub data for this location.
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