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For most of the last decade, the data center conversation was about real estate. Find a big, flat, affordable parcel near fiber, lock it up, and build. That era is over. The binding constraint has moved twice in just a few years: first from land to grid access, and now to a far more specific question. Can this particular parcel get energized, and how soon? That shift is rewriting how the most sophisticated developers and investors value land. The parcels commanding premium at

For data center developers seeking to identify emerging markets and future demand centers, understanding the relationship between 5G infrastructure and data center development can provide valuable insight into where digital infrastructure investment is headed.

For energy and data center developers, finding a site with strong land characteristics and clean environmental conditions is only part of the equation. The other part is understanding whether the grid can actually absorb the power a project will generate, and at what cost. That question sits at the heart of LandGate's Offtake Report, which analyzes interconnection feasibility at a specific point of interconnection (POI) before a developer commits to the formal and expensive u

When Meta received planning permission last October to build what Data Center Dynamics called data centers in "tents" at its Gallatin, Tennessee campus, the reaction from the industry was somewhere between a double-take and a knowing nod. The project, reportedly codenamed ‘Prometheus’, is not a publicity stunt. It is a window into how the most aggressive capital deployers in history are responding to a single, unyielding constraint: time. For data center developers, the tent

Environmental risk is one of the most common sources of project delay in energy and data center development. Federally protected species, wetlands, contaminated land, and soil conditions can each add months or years to a permitting timeline, and identifying them late in the process is expensive. LandGate's Environmental Report consolidates these risk factors into a single, structured document that developers can use to screen sites and prioritize further investigation before

What the world's hottest data center market is telling developers: secured land near real transmission capacity is no longer a nice-to-have. It's the entry ticket. On June 2, the board of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) approved a landmark set of rules that will reshape how data centers get onto the Texas grid. The framework, known as "Batch Zero," replaces the old first-come, first-served interconnection line with something far more selective, and the crite

Energy developers and institutional investors rarely evaluate a single parcel in isolation. More often, the question is how a collection of parcels performs as a portfolio: which assets carry the most value, which are worth prioritizing for development, and which energy use cases are the best fit for each piece of land. LandGate's Asset Report data is built for exactly that kind of multi-parcel analysis, delivering parcel-by-parcel valuations across land, solar, wind, and car

Proximity to a gas pipeline is a starting condition, not a capacity determination. Whether you're engineering behind-the-meter prime generation for a hyperscale data center, sizing backup fuel systems for a battery storage facility, or vetting renewable energy interconnect points, the physical dimensions of the supplying pipeline determine what's actually deliverable. LandGate has updated its Gas Infrastructure Layer to include pipeline diameter attributes, expressed in Nomin

A multi-billion-dollar data center campus was designed to run almost entirely on natural gas. Within weeks, the state's own Republican governor said that would "never" happen. For developers, the lesson is clear: how you plan to power a site is now as consequential as where you put it. Data center developers have spent the last two years learning that power availability, not capital, sets the pace of a project. The fight unfolding in northern Utah adds a sharper edge to that

When evaluating land for a utility-scale solar project, a battery storage facility, or a data center campus, the due diligence process can be slow, expensive, and fragmented. LandGate's Property Report consolidates the critical signals (land value, topography, solar resource, and electrical infrastructure) into a single document that lets developers quickly screen sites before committing to deeper feasibility work. This post walks through each section of a LandGate Property R

When Microsoft announced in April 2026 that it intends to purchase approximately 3,200 acres southeast of Cheyenne, Wyoming, the headlines focused on the scale of a land buy that will effectively triple the company's physical footprint in the city. But for data center developers, the more important story isn't how much land Microsoft acquired. It's why Cheyenne keeps winning. This post breaks down the site from a developer's perspective: the land characteristics, power infras

How EPRI's Flex MOSAIC Framework Is Rewriting the Rules of Data Center Interconnection The race to power AI isn't just about gigawatts. It's about time. And right now, time is the one resource the data center industry can't afford to waste. As artificial intelligence and advanced manufacturing push electricity demand to levels the grid was never designed to handle, a single bottleneck has emerged at the center of nearly every major project: Time-to-Power. Interconnection queu

For the past two years, data center site selection has been almost entirely driven by one variable: substation proximity. Developers have pushed into secondary and tertiary markets they would have passed over five years ago simply to secure MW commitments ahead of their competitors. That calculus is now insufficient. The shift toward generative AI workloads has exposed a second constraint that power-first site selection often overlooks: fiber. A site with 100 MW of available

For years, Canada was viewed by US developers as a reliable, if quiet, secondary market for disaster recovery. That changed in 2025. Today, as power queues in Northern Virginia and Columbus stretch into the next decade, Canada has emerged as a promising relief valve for the AI infrastructure data center supercycle. With a projected market value of $13 billion by 2030, the question isn’t if you should be in Canada (you probably should), it’s where the remaining power is hidden

The data center industry is no stranger to public pushback, but the scale of the newly approved Stratos Data Center Project in northern Utah represents a new frontier of data center development risk. As hyperscalers and AI developers hunt for massive tracts of land with power potential, the Stratos project, a staggering 40,000-acre proposal, serves as a cautionary tale of how quickly booming narratives can turn into PR and regulatory nightmares. The Stratos Data Center site,

For decades, the Permian Basin has been synonymous with one thing: hydrocarbons. However, as the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution accelerates, the narrative surrounding this legendary oil patch is shifting. A recent earnings report from Texas Pacific Land (TPL), the largest landowner in the state, has sent a clear signal to the market. Data center development is no longer a peripheral interest for landholders; it is becoming a primary driver of land value and strategic

The narrative surrounding data centers has shifted to a message of "power, power, power." A recent report from the Department of Energy (DOE) highlights a critical inflection point: the surge in electricity demand from data centers, fueled by the rapid adoption of Artificial Intelligence, is colliding with a strained national grid. For developers in the current ecosystem, this presents the largest land-use and energy-development opportunity of the decade. Here is our analysis

A quiet yet powerful shift is currently reshaping the real estate market. What was once dominated by traditional residential, commercial, and industrial developments is being fundamentally transformed by the infrastructure needs of the AI revolution. We have officially moved past the "Data Center" era and entered the age of the AI Superfactory: large-scale facilities intended solely to cater to the unimaginable rates of artificial intelligence computing needs. In 2026, land i

The recent Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approval of the Transmission Service Agreement (TSA) between Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) and Tract (for a project involving Microsoft) represents more than just a massive power allocation. It marks a shift in how hyperscale developers must navigate the increasingly congested PJM interconnection queue. For data center developers, the 1-gigawatt (GW) approval TSA for the Greater Chicago area provides a case study in "certa

OpenAI’s April 2026 policy release, " Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age: Ideas to Keep People First ," shifts the conversation from the raw physical demands of the early AI race to a broader socio-economic framework. For energy and data center developers, this April 2026 release anchors the massive build-out goals first established in the November 2024 Blueprint and October 2025 OSTP Submission within a new "social contract" that treats AI infrastructure as a fundam