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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

The Market Imperative and the Due Diligence Gap The battery energy storage system (BESS) market has entered a period of rapid, capacity-constrained growth. Grid operators across the United States are managing an increasingly complex balancing act: integrating high volumes of intermittent renewable generation while simultaneously meeting peak demand events that stress aging transmission and distribution infrastructure. Storage assets are no longer optional additions to the gri

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

The land acquisition landscape for solar developers is getting more competitive and more complex. As projects push into agricultural regions, a new siting strategy is gaining serious traction: agrivoltaics.

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

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,

Unlike generation assets driven primarily by resource availability, BESS site selection is fundamentally a grid- and market-constrained optimization problem. The best sites are not just “available land near transmission,” but locations where congestion, pricing volatility, interconnection capacity, and infrastructure adjacency align to support revenue stacking and scalable deployment.

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

In the early 2020s, renewable energy development was a game of "if". Today, in the wake of the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) of 2025, it has become a game of "when." The IRA (inflation Reduction Act) was once the bedrock of the industry. The IRA is now six years old and significantly leaner. For energy developers, the OBBB has replaced broad incentives with a high-velocity survival race. With the July 4, 2026, "Begin Construction" deadline looming, the difference between a pr

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

The global race for artificial intelligence supremacy and the expansion of cloud computing have triggered a transformation in industrial energy consumption. As digital infrastructure scales, the sector is confronting a stark reality: data center power needs are massive and growing at an exponential rate. While the tech industry has been a primary driver of renewable energy adoption, the sheer scale of modern computing requirements is testing the limits of current power gene

Power constraints, fiber access, and zoning approvals can make or break a site- and the best properties rarely hit the open market before they're gone. At LandGate, we've built something different.

For decades, data center site selection has been a binary choice: finding the perfect site entailed a reasonably sized parcel of land, fiber connectivity, and a utility that has the capacity needed. However, in more recent years, we are seeing an increasing difficulty in power procurement. In comparison to previous years, where utility growth almost felt stagnant, the data center market has caused a boom where more growth is seen year over year than in previous decades. This

The recent Financial Times report regarding Google’s plan to finance a multibillion-dollar Texas data center for Anthropic marks a pivotal shift in the "AI arms race." While the headline focuses on the partnership, the real story for developers is the engineering workaround: the facility is designed to run almost entirely on direct natural gas supplies, effectively bypassing the electrical grid. This isn't just an outlier; it is a blueprint for the "AI Superfactory" era.