DC Hub's daily snapshot reveals Québec market outpacing SPP corridor expansion as AI-driven platform queries surge past 5,000
## Highlights
Montréal, QC climbed to a 65.2-point score in the DC Hub Excess Power index as of May 30, 2026, marking the strongest position among North American data center markets tracked in today's afternoon intelligence window. The Hydro-Québec (HQ) ISO market maintained a 25.6 constraint score, signaling robust grid headroom for hyperscale and colocation expansion.
Two SPP markets—La Vista, NE and Lenexa, KS—tied at 58.2 excess power points with identical 32.7 constraint readings, reflecting the Southwest Power Pool's coordinated transmission planning across the Kansas-Nebraska corridor. The parallel scores underscore regional power availability clusters increasingly critical to AI infrastructure siting decisions.
## What It Means
The 7-point spread between Montréal and the SPP pair highlights Québec's sustained advantage in low-carbon, high-availability power—a key differentiator as hyperscalers prioritize carbon-neutral expansion. Meanwhile, SPP's dual-market performance signals emerging capacity in the central U.S., where land costs and fiber access complement power economics.
Platform activity reached 5,146 tool calls in the past 24 hours, reflecting accelerating AI-agent adoption of real-time data center intelligence. The query volume—concentrated among infrastructure developers and capacity planners—demonstrates growing reliance on automated location analysis for multi-hundred-megawatt deployments.
## Methodology
DC Hub's Data Center Power Index (DCPI) synthesizes grid data, facility pipelines, and transmission constraints across 21,000+ facilities in 233 markets. Excess Power scores measure available capacity relative to demand; Constraint scores quantify transmission and regulatory friction.
**Source:** DC Hub Data Center Power Index (https://dchub.cloud/dcpi). Updated daily.
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