UF Research Computing Center is a data center operated by University of Florida in Gainesville, FL, US. The facility is currently operational. It sits in the Gainesville data-center market on the FRCC grid, which DC Hub's Data Center Power Index currently rates AVOID, with an estimated 15.1-month time-to-power. Operators should weigh interconnection risk here — the market screens constrained on grid headroom and time-to-power.
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Data Center Power Index verdict for Gainesville — the market this facility sits in.
Full DCPI breakdown →DC Hub analyst read on Gainesville — the market this facility sits in (full deep-dive →).
Gainesville's data center market remains nascent with minimal operational infrastructure. The market hosts 9 tracked facilities totaling 0 MW of deployed capacity, indicating that most tracked properties are either pre-operational, small-scale, or classified as alternative infrastructure. The operator base shows meaningful institutional presence, dominated by Microsoft 2 facilities, the University of Florida 2 facilities, AWS 1, Digital Realty 1, and NTT 1, suggesting anchor tenants rather than a competitive market of independent providers. The absence of recent M&A activity further underscores the market's underdeveloped investment cycle. The DCPI verdict of AVOID carries material implications for acquisition-focused investors. With an excess-power score of 40/100 and constraint score of 35/100, Gainesville presents a structural mismatch for buyers seeking either immediate capacity…
Published DC Hub data for this location.
DC Hub tracks 23 operating generating units totalling 1,709 MW within about 50 km of Gainesville, US. 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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