If you hold the right ground,
we will tell you either way.
Most land is not a data center site, and most of the reasons are knowable from a desk before anyone walks it. We screen from the desk first, we say no early, and we explain the no.
What decides it
A site is a power question before it is a land question.
Computing demand has arrived faster than the grid can add capacity to serve it, and that has made one narrow thing scarce: ground sitting close to power a utility can deliver. It is why land nobody wanted ten years ago now gets letters, and why most of those conversations end in nothing.
What decides whether ground can carry a data center or a generation project is what the wires nearby can deliver, how long the serving utility will take to deliver it, and whether the county and the community will accept what gets built. Acreage matters, and it matters third. That order is why a developer who looked serious can go quiet on you for months, and why we ask about power first: most of the land we look at ends in a no, and the no arrives early enough to be worth something to you.
The screen
What gets checked, and in what order.
None of this is a threshold you have to clear before getting in touch. It is the sequence a screen has to work through, and you will not have answers to all of it. That is normal, and it is our work rather than yours.
- 01
Power, first and hardest
- What transmission or distribution runs nearby, and at what voltage
- How far the nearest substation sits, and whether there is room left in it
- What the serving utility can deliver to that point, and on what timeline
- 02
Permission, and who grants it
- Zoning today, and the entitlement path from there
- Who the authority having jurisdiction is, and what they have approved before
- Whether anything similar has been proposed nearby, and how that went
- 03
Land that can be built on
- Area, shape, and whether the acreage is contiguous
- Access, easements, and anything already recorded against the parcel
- Slope, flood exposure, wetlands, and whatever has already been studied
- 04
Fiber, and water where it matters
- Fiber routes within reach, and who owns them
- Water, where the project type needs it, and what rights attach to the land
What happens next
A screen, then a straight answer.
A submission goes to a person here, not onto a list. The first pass is desk work against the questions above. If the ground does not work we tell you why, in terms specific enough to be worth something if you take it to somebody else.
If it does work, the next conversation is about what we would need to verify and what verifying it takes. The shape of a transaction follows the site and the project, so we put it to you directly rather than publishing a standard deal here. There is no standard deal, and you should be wary of a page that implies there is. Have your own lawyer read anything we put in front of you.
- Cost of a screen
- None, and it obliges neither of us
- What comes back
- A yes, a no, or what would change the answer
- Not published here
- A price, a timeline or a standard deal, because none of the three is knowable before the screen
- Before anything is signed
- Your own lawyer reads it
Tell us about the land.
Nothing here commits either of us, and we do not need the parcel under contract to look at it. Leave blank anything you do not know. A county and a rough acreage is enough to start.