dchubcloud/dcpi-market-verdicts

DC Hub — Data Center Power Index (DCPI): Market Verdicts

A per-market buildability verdict for 300+ global data-center markets, from DC Hub — the live infrastructure data layer for the physical build-out behind AI. Each market carries a BUILD / CAUTION / AVOID verdict for siting a new large-load (data-center / AI-cluster) build, derived from interconnection-queue depth, capacity-pipeline additions, grid-emergency events, and reserve-margin signals for the serving ISO/RTO, adjusted for local data-center saturation.

Freshness — read this before citing. The DC Hub index behind these verdicts is recomputed daily. This published snapshot is not continuous: every row carries its own as_of_date, and that column — not the repo's last-modified timestamp and not this sentence — is the date you should cite. An earlier version of this card said the verdicts were "recomputed daily" without that distinction, while the file sat unchanged for two months. For always-current verdicts, query /api/v1/dcpi/scores or the DC Hub MCP server directly.

No other public dataset publishes a per-market data-center buildability verdict.

Columns

column	description
market_slug	canonical slug (e.g. phoenix, northern-virginia)
market_name	market / metro name
state	US state or region (where applicable)
iso	serving grid operator / ISO-RTO (ERCOT, PJM, WECC, …)
latitude, longitude	market centroid (nullable)
verdict	BUILD (favorable), CAUTION (bordered), AVOID (constrained)
as_of_date	date this row was last recomputed

What's here — and what's live

This dataset is the free, shareable verdict layer (CC-BY-4.0). The underlying numeric DCPI scores — Excess-Power score, Grid-Constraint score, Time-to-Power (months), and composite — are available free per-market at:

• Live page: https://dchub.cloud/dcpi/<market_slug> (e.g. https://dchub.cloud/dcpi/phoenix)
• JSON API: https://dchub.cloud/api/v1/dcpi/scores/<market_slug>
• MCP tool: get_market_dcpi_rank via https://dchub.cloud/mcp

Bulk/all-market numeric export is a paid product (a free dev key raises limits; see https://dchub.cloud/signup).

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("DCHUB/dcpi-market-verdicts")          # replace with your HF namespace
build_markets = [r for r in ds["train"] if r["verdict"] == "BUILD"]

# enrich one market with the live numeric scores (free per-market):
import requests
phx = requests.get("https://dchub.cloud/api/v1/dcpi/scores/phoenix").json()
print(phx["verdict"], phx["composite_score"], phx["time_to_power_months"])

Citation

DC Hub Data Center Power Index (DCPI). DC Hub, dchub.cloud. CC-BY-4.0.

Cite as "DC Hub (dchub.cloud)" with a link to https://dchub.cloud.

Source & method

Aggregated by DC Hub from ISO/RTO public data (ENTSO-E, AEMO, EirGrid, NGESO, EIA, and North American ISO queues) + DC Hub's discovered-facility footprint. Verdicts are directional siting guidance, not engineering advice. Methodology: https://dchub.cloud/dcpi