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Meta confirmed this week that its Hyperion data center campus in Richland Parish, Louisiana, is growing to 5 gigawatts of compute capacity, pushing the company's regional investment past $50 billion (CNBC; Blockspace). The project began in December 2024 as a $10 billion, roughly 2 GW campus on a 2,250 acre former farm between Rayville and Delhi. Eighteen months later it is one of the largest data center buildouts in history, and a useful case study in how land, power, and rur

For hyperscale campuses, colocation facilities, and edge deployments alike, subtransmission is the variable that determines whether a site can actually be powered.

On July 6, 2026, TeraWulf and Anthropic announced a 20-year lease agreement that will turn a shuttered Kentucky aluminum smelter into one of the largest AI infrastructure campuses in the country. The headline numbers are impressive on their own: roughly $19 billion in contracted lease revenue, 401 megawatts of critical IT load, and a phased buildout stretching from second half 2027 through early 2028. But the number that should catch every developer's attention isn't the doll

For data center developers, site selectors, operators, and investors, one constraint sits above all others: power. A site can have ideal land, connectivity, and incentives, but if it cannot secure large, reliable power quickly and connect to the grid without prohibitive upgrades, it is not a data center site. Around that central question sit the others that decide a project: fiber and interconnection, real estate and lease economics, tax incentives, backup and resilience, and

Proposed transmission lines are electric transmission projects that have been announced, planned, or are under development but have not yet been constructed or energized.

Europe spent this week in a record heatwave, and the headlines focused on the obvious: strained grids, blackouts, and big tech scrambling to keep AI chips cool. For developers, investors, and lenders putting capital into data centers, the more important signal sits underneath that story. Severe weather has quietly become the single largest driver of insured construction losses in the data center sector, and the buildout is moving fastest into exactly the markets with the thin

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