Caterpillar - Mason County is a data center operated by Caterpillar in Mason County, WV, US. It carries a reported power capacity of 2000.0 MW and is currently planned. It sits in the South Charleston data-center market on the PJM grid, which DC Hub's Data Center Power Index currently rates AVOID, with an estimated 13.8-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 South Charleston — the market this facility sits in.
Full DCPI breakdown →DC Hub analyst read on South Charleston — the market this facility sits in (full deep-dive →).
South Charleston's data center market is underdeveloped, with only 3 tracked facilities delivering 6 MW of total capacity across a fragmented operator base. The market is dominated by three single-facility operators—Alpha Innovations, Alpha Technologies Inc., and SecureNet—each holding 1 MW, reflecting an atomized competitive landscape with no dominant player. This fragmentation, combined with minimal aggregate capacity, signals a nascent market still in early infrastructure buildout. The DCPI verdict of AVOID is driven by two critical constraints. The excess-power score of 32/100 indicates severe power availability limitations relative to market demand, meaning new entrants or expanding operators will face immediate grid bottlenecks. Equally concerning is the constraint rating of 30/100, reflecting acute operational and development friction—likely driven by utility interconnection lead…
Published DC Hub data for this location.
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