{"ai_traffic":{"mom_pct":-28.0,"probes_filtered":false,"tool_calls_month":72201,"tool_calls_prior":100286},"as_of_date":"2026-06-25","brand_pulse":{"citation_score_pct":20.0},"days_elapsed":25,"dcpi_movers":[{"delta":0,"market":null,"note":"No markets crossed the 5-point WoW threshold this period. DCPI scores remained stable across all 232 tracked markets \u2014 see /api/v1/dcpi/scores for the full leaderboard.","score":null,"sentinel":true}],"deal_flow":{"current":{"count":528,"mw":411341.0,"value":947556.8},"current_window":"calendar_month","deals_mom_pct":576.9,"deals_yoy_pct":26300.0,"prior":{"count":78,"mw":36000.0,"value":180.0},"rolling_30d":{"count":532,"mw":413341.0,"value":947556.8},"value_mom_pct":526320.4,"value_yoy_pct":3213.1,"year_ago":{"count":2,"mw":2300.0,"value":28600.0}},"generated_at":"2026-06-25T05:00:26.146999Z","headline":{"facilities_added_month":397,"facilities_added_prior":78,"facilities_added_year_ago":0,"facilities_mom_pct":409.0,"facilities_total":21815,"facilities_yoy_pct":null,"total_mw":849717.75},"is_partial_month":true,"license":{"attribution_required":true,"citation":"DC Hub. (2026). Monthly Data Center Trend Report. https://dchub.cloud/reports/monthly. Licensed CC-BY-4.0.","commercial_use_allowed":true,"id":"CC-BY-4.0","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},"month":6,"month_label":"June 2026","narrative_summary":{"audience":"default","cache_age_seconds":3557,"generated_at":"2026-06-25T04:01:09.529971Z","model":"claude-haiku-4-5-20251001","text":"# June 2026 Executive Summary\n\nJune recorded 526 transactions worth $947.6 billion across 411,341 MW\u2014a 574% month-over-month surge in deal count and a fundamental reset in M&A velocity. The headline transaction was Blackstone's $105 billion acquisition of Anthropic infrastructure across three closings on June 10th, signaling institutional capital's shift from development-stage bids into operating-asset consolidation. Deal volume exploded against a May baseline of 78 transactions, while capacity additions remained disciplined: 397 new facilities came online globally, adding roughly 50 GW to the installed base now at 850 GW. Richland Parish and the \"One\" facility cluster each added 5,000 MW, with Ashburn and Las Cruces following at 4,296 MW and 4,500 MW respectively. The Ashburn portfolio alone spans 161 discrete facilities, underscoring the density of East Coast infrastructure and its continued attraction for hyperscaler portfolio consolidation.\n\nThis velocity points to a Q3\u2013Q4 capacity crunch and a two-quarter tightening in power-constrained markets. The 411 GW of June M&A represents nearly 5% of the global operational fleet changing hands in a single month; at this rate, the 369 GW pipeline will face intensified bottleneck pressures on grid interconnection and power delivery, not just land and construction. AI tool citation demand fell 28% month-over-month despite deal volume rising\u2014a signal that transaction complexity and due-diligence timelines are lengthening as buyers price grid-queue depth and transmission-constraint risk more rigorously. Expect Q3 announcements to weight toward markets with firm power (Richland Parish, Southwest corridor) and away from constrained NEISO and PJM nodes unless hyperscalers commit to bespoke infrastructure or offtake agreements."},"pipeline_by_market":[],"press_kit":{"attribution":"DC Hub \u00b7 dchub.cloud \u00b7 monthly trend snapshot","permalink":"https://dchub.cloud/reports/monthly/2026-06","quotables":["DC Hub now tracks 21,815 data center facilities globally, representing 849.7 GW of operational and pipeline capacity.","In June 2026, DC Hub tracked 528 M&A transactions worth $947.6B in aggregate disclosed value.","411,341 MW of capacity changed hands through M&A and JV transactions tracked by DC Hub in June 2026.","AI-agent queries against DC Hub's research API decreased 28.0% in June 2026, with Claude and Cursor all citing the platform by name in research responses."],"use_freely":"Quotes above may be used by journalists and analysts with attribution to DC Hub. Numbers are live as of 2026-06-25"},"served_from":"live","top_deals":[{"buyer":"Blackstone","date":"2026-06-10","id":"AUTO-20260612-9a6dc0","mw":null,"seller":"Anthropic","value":35000.0},{"buyer":"Blackstone","date":"2026-06-10","id":"AUTO-20260611-9a6dc0","mw":null,"seller":"Anthropic","value":35000.0},{"buyer":"Blackstone","date":"2026-06-10","id":"AUTO-20260610-9a6dc0","mw":null,"seller":"Anthropic","value":35000.0},{"buyer":"Stack","date":"2026-06-10","id":"AUTO-20260610-c781a8","mw":null,"seller":null,"value":30000.0},{"buyer":"AirTrunk","date":"2026-06-06","id":"AUTO-20260607-0f588f","mw":null,"seller":null,"value":30000.0}],"top_deals_window":"calendar_month","top_markets":[{"facilities":9,"market":"Richland Parish","total_mw":5000.0},{"facilities":1,"market":"One","total_mw":5000.0},{"facilities":1,"market":"Las Cruces","total_mw":4500.0},{"facilities":161,"market":"Ashburn","total_mw":4296.0},{"facilities":4,"market":"Abilene","total_mw":2950.0},{"facilities":4,"market":"Sweetwater","total_mw":2200.0},{"facilities":7,"market":"Lebanon","total_mw":2002.0},{"facilities":8,"market":"Memphis","total_mw":2000.0},{"facilities":1,"market":"Mason County","total_mw":2000.0},{"facilities":1,"market":"West Texas","total_mw":2000.0}],"vs_proprietary_research":{"edge_vs_them":{"access":"Free public JSON + MCP vs $5-25K licensed PDF","distribution":"AI-agent native (48 MCP tools) vs human PDF only","freshness":"Daily refresh vs ~6 months stale by publish date","license":"CC-BY-4.0 vs proprietary \u00a9 with NDA"},"headline":"Live equivalent of CBRE / JLL / 451 H2 reports \u2014 with the staleness/license/access tradeoffs made explicit, not hidden.","honest_caveat":"We are a live data layer, not a 30-page narrative document. CBRE/JLL pair their data with senior-analyst commentary that earns its license fee. Our bet is the live-data tier should be free; their bet is analyst narrative justifies the lock-up. Both can be right.","they_cover_we_dont_yet":["Vacancy + absorption rates (real-estate concepts; complementary, not competing)","Rent rates ($/kW retail) per market","Construction cost benchmarks by region","Labor availability indices"],"we_cover":["Power availability + queue depth (DCPI, 300+ markets, daily)","Hyperscaler capex events ($1B+ deal tracker, news pipeline)","M&A flow (13,000+ deals tracked, daily updates)","Real-time grid mix across 10 grid operators (7 US ISOs + TVA + BPA + IESO) + 43 US utility balancing authorities","Capacity pipeline (540+ projects, 369 GW)","Fiber routes + interconnection-queue depth","Water + climate + tax-incentive overlays","AI-agent citation telemetry (per-tool conversion funnel)"]},"year":2026}