Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center
MGHPCC consortium (BU/Harvard/MIT/Northeastern/UMass/Yale) · Holyoke, MA · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- OperationalSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- exact
- Address as listed
- 100 Bigelow Street
- Coordinates
- 42.20285, -72.60693
- Serving utility, source-reported
- City of Holyoke
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- 15 MW
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-24
Source-reported capacity; not metered consumption. Review underlying documents and notes. Planned capacity may include future phases and is not added to operational capacity here. The source may use facility, grid-feed or IT capacity definitions; consult the linked documents.
Coordinate precision is a source label, not an independent parcel survey. A marker does not confirm utility territory or establish an effect on residential bills.
Reported lifecycle history
- Operational
Opened 2012
Underlying source
Source notes
90,300 sq ft, opened 2012, hydro-powered university research-computing consortium (100 Bigelow St). Explicitly exempted from Holyoke's 2026 data center ban. Houses the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center (LLSC / TX-GAIA) — recorded as one facility, not two.
MIT CSAIL's facility page states a 15-megawatt utility connection from Holyoke Gas & Electric, "about 70% of which is sourced locally from hydroelectric facilities on the Connecticut River", and that MGHPCC shares a 34.5 kV bus with the Hadley Falls hydroelectric station. Recorded as source=grid rather than hydro because the supply is a utility connection with a majority - not exclusive - hydro mix.
Sources and provenance
- Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center · source retrieved 2026-10-06
- MGHPCC · source retrieved 2026-07-17
- Hampden County parcel/GIS record (parcel 020-02-003 (MAP_PAR_ID); LOC_ID F_355950_2900713) · source retrieved 2026-07-18
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · source retrieved 2026-07-23
- MGHPCC Directions & Map - "100 Bigelow Street, Holyoke, MA 01040" · source retrieved 2026-09-15
- MIT CSAIL Infrastructure Group, Holyoke Data Center (MGHPCC) - "a 15-megawatt utility connection", "10 MW is dedicated to computing systems", "about 70% of which is sourced locally from hydroelectric facilities on the Connecticut River", "90,000-square-foot data center facility" · source retrieved 2026-09-21
- Ban, ban, ban: data center discontent reaches western Massachusetts · source retrieved 2026-10-24
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.