NCSA Petascale Computing Facility is a data center in Champaign, IL, US. The facility is currently operational. It sits in the Aurora data-center market on the PJM grid, which DC Hub's Data Center Power Index currently rates AVOID, with an estimated 47.4-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 Aurora — the market this facility sits in.
Full DCPI breakdown →DC Hub analyst read on Aurora — the market this facility sits in (full deep-dive →).
Aurora's data center footprint comprises 158 MW across 19 tracked facilities, establishing it as a modest but operational market. CyrusOne dominates the operator landscape with a controlling position of 8 facilities counting both CyrusOne and CYRUSONE LLC, while Agile Data Sites and two unknown operators round out the competitive set. No recent M&A activity has been recorded, suggesting a static ownership structure and limited institutional acquisition momentum in this geography. The DCPI verdict—excess-power 43/100 paired with constraint 57/100—signals a market investors should avoid. This scoring reflects a critical supply-demand mismatch: while absolute power capacity remains available, structural constraints interconnection, permitting, or infrastructure bottlenecks severly limit usable supply. The constraint score exceeding 57/100 is the decisive red flag; it indicates that…
Published DC Hub data for this location.
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