For a 3-dimensional quantum polynomial algebra 𝐴 = A (𝐸 , 𝜎), Artin-Tate-Van den Bergh showed that 𝐴 is finite over its center if and only if | 𝜎 | < ∞. Moreover, Artin showed that if 𝐴 is finite over its center and 𝐸 ≠ P 2 , then 𝐴 has a fat point module, which plays an important role in noncommutative algebraic geometry, however the converse is not true in general. In this paper, we will show that, if 𝐸 ≠ P 2 , then 𝐴 has a fat point module if and only if the quantum projective plane Proj nc 𝐴 is finite over its center in the sense of this paper if and only if |𝜈 * 𝜎 3 | < ∞ where 𝜈 is the Nakayama automorphism of 𝐴. In particular, we will show that if the second Hessian of 𝐸 is zero, then 𝐴 has no fat point module.