NCSA Petascale Computing Facility is a data center. The facility is currently operational. It sits in the Lafayette data-center market on the MISO grid, which DC Hub's Data Center Power Index currently rates CAUTION, with an estimated 25.9-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 Lafayette — the market this facility sits in.
Full DCPI breakdown →DC Hub analyst read on Lafayette — the market this facility sits in (full deep-dive →).
Lafayette's data center market remains nascent with minimal operating infrastructure: only five tracked facilities generating zero megawatts of aggregate capacity. The market exhibits a fragmented operator landscape dominated by unknown entities, with single facilities attributed to Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Learning GIS!, and Wintek Corporation. This distribution suggests Lafayette lacks established hyperscale or tier-one operator presence and has not yet consolidated around institutional players. The DCPI verdict of CAUTION reflects structural constraints that should temper acquisition expectations. The excess-power score of 56/100 indicates moderate but unreliable power availability, while the constraint score of 48/100 signals meaningful infrastructure friction—particularly for operators seeking expansion or rapid deployment. For buyers evaluating Lafayette as an…
Published DC Hub data for this location.
DC Hub tracks 26 operating generating units totalling 2,725 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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