Plan B Data Centre is a data center in Auckland, NZ. The facility is currently operational. It sits in the Auckland data-center market on the TPM grid, which DC Hub's Data Center Power Index currently rates AVOID, with an estimated 21.5-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 Auckland — the market this facility sits in.
Full DCPI breakdown →DC Hub analyst read on Auckland — the market this facility sits in (full deep-dive →).
Auckland's data centre ecosystem remains nascent and fragmented, with 104 tracked facilities generating no utility-scale power capacity on record. The operator landscape is dominated by telecommunications carriers rather than dedicated colocation providers: Chorus New Zealand Limited, 2degrees, and Spark New Zealand collectively operate 11 facilities, while 12 facilities remain unattributed to named operators. This structural immaturity—the absence of measurable MW contribution despite over 100 sites—suggests most tracked assets are small edge nodes, last-mile interconnection points, or legacy infrastructure rather than enterprise-grade data centres. The DCPI verdict of AVOID reflects a market configuration hostile to capital deployment. The excess-power score of 30/100 signals acute power scarcity; the constraint score of 45/100 indicates moderate but meaningful operational…
Published DC Hub data for this location.
Networks recorded as present at or immediately around Plan B Data Centre in public peering records. Treat this as a map of who is there, not as a list of contracted cross-connects — availability, diversity and pricing are the operator’s to confirm.
Further networks are recorded at this location beyond those listed here.
Source: PeeringDB carrier-to-facility records, matched to this site by location. A network listed here may sit in a neighbouring hall or an adjacent building at the same address, so presence is reported for the location rather than for a single suite.
DC Hub tracks 3 operating generating units totalling 29 MW within about 50 km of Auckland, NZ. 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.
Comparable facilities in Auckland tracked by DC Hub — compare power, operators, and grid context across the market.
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