Cogent Boston is a data center operated by Cogent Communications, Inc. in Waltham, MA, US. It carries a reported power capacity of 3.0 MW and is currently operational. It sits in the Waltham data-center market on the ISONE grid, which DC Hub's Data Center Power Index currently rates AVOID, with an estimated 19.0-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 Waltham — the market this facility sits in.
Full DCPI breakdown →DC Hub analyst read on Waltham — the market this facility sits in (full deep-dive →).
Waltham's data center footprint remains modest and constrained, with five tracked facilities totaling 27 MW across a fragmented operator base. The market is dominated by a mix of regional and national carriers: Equinix operates two facilities, while Centersquare, Cogent Communications, and FirstLight Fiber each maintain a single site. This distribution reflects typical mid-market geography—sufficient density for colocation demand but insufficient scale for wholesale dominance. No material M&A activity has been recorded in the tracked period, suggesting limited operator consolidation or acquisition appetite. The DCPI verdict is unambiguous: AVOID. With excess power scoring only 29/100 and constraint severity at 42/100, Waltham presents a fundamental mismatch between acquisition economics and operational reality. Buyers entering through M&A would immediately inherit tight power budgets…
Published DC Hub data for this location.
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