Live · as of 2026-06-25
Quarterly market intelligence

Q2 2026 in data centers.

A live quarterly readout of the global data center market: facilities tracked, deal flow, DCPI verdicts (BUILD/CAUTION/AVOID), and per-market construction pipeline. Auto-generated from DC Hub's live ingest pipeline — no 90-day spreadsheet versioning, no quarterly lag.

01Headline

21,815 Facilities
Cumulative · global
849.7 GW Power tracked
Operational + pipeline
621 Deals
452,741 MW changed hands
$954.7B Deal $ volume
621 deals · trailing 90 days

02Data Center Power Index · verdict distribution

DC Hub's Data Center Power Index scores every tracked U.S. market on excess power vs. grid constraint, then issues a BUILD / CAUTION / AVOID verdict — refreshed daily, not quarterly. Distribution across 312 scored markets:

5 BUILD
Excess power · low constraint
37 CAUTION
Mixed signals · queue stress
270 AVOID
Severely constrained grid
312 Markets scored
Daily refresh · live
Top BUILD marketsISOExcessConstraint
CheyenneWECC6922
Rural SPPSPP6722
MontréalHQ6525
Williston, NDMISO6517
PapillionSPP5931

03M&A · trailing 90 days

621 tracked deals · $954.7B aggregate value · 452,741 MW changed hands.

DateBuyerSellerValueMW
2026-06-10BlackstoneAnthropic$35.0B
2026-06-10Stack?$30.0B
2026-06-06AirTrunk?$30.0B
2026-06-05AirTrunk?$30.0B5,000
2026-06-05BlackstoneAirTrunk$30.0B

04Top markets by operating MW

MarketFacilitiesOperating MW
Northern Virginia79213,676
Dallas2756,240
One15,000
Richland Parish95,000
Las Cruces14,500
Phoenix2244,182
West Texas103,950
Mount Pleasant83,603
Dublin2433,238
Silicon Valley2863,075

05Top Power Index markets

No week-over-week movers this period — showing the top 10 by current score.

MarketDCPI ScoreRank
Cheyenne47/100#1
Williston, ND47/100#2
Rural SPP44/100#3
Upper Peninsula MI43/100#4
Montréal39/100#5
Winnipeg32/100#6
Midland–Odessa30/100#7
Appalachia (Retiring Coal)29/100#8
La Vista28/100#9
Lenexa28/100#10

06Construction pipeline by market

MarketProjectsPipeline MW
One15,000
Richland Parish95,000
Las Cruces14,500
West Texas33,800
Mount Pleasant33,600
Abilene32,800
Dallas132,470
Sweetwater42,200
Lebanon62,002
Memphis32,000

07Cite this report

Cite as: DC Hub, Data Center Market Intelligence — Q2 2026, https://dchub.cloud/reports/quarterly. Underlying index: DC Hub Data Center Power Index (DCPI), dchub.cloud/dcpi. Methodology & BibTeX: dchub.cloud/dcpi/methodology.

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