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Acquisition of 150 million parcel-level land intelligence dataset strengthens Wood Mackenzie’s leading market position and will drive faster, higher-confidence capital allocation decisions for power, renewables, and data center developers. LONDON/HOUSTON/SINGAPORE, 24 June 2026 – Wood Mackenzie, a global leader in data, analytics and insights for the energy and natural resources industry, today announced the acquisition of LandGate. The deal combines Wood Mackenzie’s power ma

The most established data center market in the country has agreed to tax the industry's power consumption for the first time. The deal is capped and temporary, but the signal it sends to developers, investors, and lenders is anything but. What the Virginia data center tax deal does After a months-long budget standoff that nearly triggered Virginia's first government shutdown, state House and Senate Democrats reached an agreement that imposes a new tax on data center electrici

For battery storage developers, investors, and asset managers, the questions that decide a project are different from those that decide a solar farm. A battery does not generate energy; it earns by moving energy through time, charging when prices are low and discharging when they are high, and by providing capacity and grid services. That makes storage economics a function of two things above all: whether the site can actually connect to the grid, and whether the local market

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

The Federal Reserve has already introduced energy commodity shocks as explicit variables in the stress testing framework for the largest US banks. The trajectory of scenario design (expanding variable scope, adding new guides, and building institutional capacity through the 2023 pilot Climate Scenario Analysis) points in one direction. Energy cost sensitivity for energy-intensive asset classes is not a future regulatory concept. It is a present supervisory concern in the proc

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

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

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,

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.