How it works
From candidate sites to one selected planning-grade report.
DCFR helps land teams, brokers, developers, and investors screen up to 20 candidate sites, compare early feasibility signals, and select one parcel for a planning-grade data center feasibility report.
Workflow
A structured workflow for early data center site decisions
Submit candidate sites
Start by submitting up to 20 candidate parcels or site locations for preliminary screening. Each site should include the best available address, parcel information, acreage, target megawatt assumption, intended use, timing, and any known site constraints.
Customer provides
- Site address or parcel location
- Approximate acreage
- Target information technology load or capacity goal
- Cooling preference, if known
- Phasing or schedule target, if known
- Known access, utility, zoning, or site concerns
DCFR screens the sites consistently
DCFR applies the same planning-grade screening logic across candidate sites so teams can compare them under one framework. The preliminary screen reviews physical fit, infrastructure exposure, support-yard pressure, access, stormwater, sensitive-edge risk, and confirmation-required items.
DCFR reviews
- Gross acreage versus likely usable planning area
- Parcel configuration and apparent buildable envelope
- Target megawatt fit against land demand
- Power and utility exposure
- Cooling and water strategy assumptions
- Generator, electrical, cooling, and support-yard pressure
- Parking, loading, fire/service access, and truck/service logic
- Stormwater reserve, buffers, and sensitive-edge conditions
- Early risk flags and confirmation-required items
Receive the preliminary 20-site comparison package
The preliminary screening is not just an online preview. Each paid package includes a preliminary 20-site comparison PDF / export package that helps teams shortlist, reject, or hold sites for confirmation before selecting one site for the full report.
Customer receives
- Preliminary 20-site comparison PDF / export package
- Site-by-site comparison matrix
- Feasibility signal per site: Likely Fit, Constrained Fit, Poor Fit, or Confirmation Required
- Key constraint flags for each candidate site
- Shortlist, hold, or reject recommendation
- Exportable decision-support information where supported by the workflow
Select one site for the full DCFR report
After reviewing the preliminary comparison package, the customer selects one candidate site to develop into the full planning-grade DCFR feasibility report. This selected-site report provides deeper analysis, report-ready pages, site-fit logic, risk summary, and consultant handoff materials.
Selected full report includes
- Executive feasibility verdict
- Parcel capacity and site-fit model
- Planning-grade concept layout and visual feasibility pages where supported
- Power, utility, cooling, water, and noise strategy review
- Code, fire, authority, zoning, and sensitive-use exposure flags
- Sustainability, LEED v5, low-water, low-carbon, and stormwater strategy review
- Cost, schedule, entitlement, utility, and constructability risk summary
- Confirmation-required register
- Consultant handoff materials and recommended next steps
What you receive
The DCFR Report Package
One package. Two tangible outputs — a preliminary 20-site comparison and one selected planning-grade DCFR feasibility report.
Output 01
Preliminary 20-site comparison package
A planning-grade comparison deliverable that helps the customer shortlist, hold, or reject candidate sites before committing one parcel to the full report.
- Up to 20 submitted candidate sites
- Consistent screening framework
- Side-by-side comparison matrix
- Feasibility signal per site
- Key constraint and risk flags
- Shortlist / hold / reject recommendation
- Export-ready screening output where supported
Output 02
Selected full planning-grade DCFR feasibility report
The selected site receives the full DCFR report — structured feasibility outputs covering capacity fit, infrastructure exposure, site organization, risk, and confirmation-required next steps.
- Selected-site feasibility verdict
- Site-fit and capacity logic
- Planning-level area allocation
- Concept layout and visual feasibility pages
- Infrastructure and utility exposure review
- Sustainability and low-carbon strategy
- Risk register and confirmation register
- Consultant handoff materials
The 20-site output is a preliminary comparison package. One selected site receives the full planning-grade DCFR feasibility report.
Use the report
What your team can do with the report
DCFR helps teams move from vague land interest to a more disciplined early-stage decision. The package is designed to support internal review, broker coordination, investor discussion, consultant kickoff, and next-step due diligence planning.
- Compare multiple candidate parcels before committing to one
- Reject weak sites earlier
- Shortlist sites that deserve deeper due diligence
- Identify utility, access, stormwater, and support-yard pressure points
- Understand whether the target megawatt assumption appears physically reasonable
- Prepare for consultant, utility, civil, zoning, environmental, or authority conversations
- Support internal investment or acquisition discussion
- Create a clearer decision record before letter of intent or land acquisition commitment
DCFR does not replace professional due diligence. It helps teams decide where professional due diligence should be focused.
Review categories
What DCFR reviews
Site capacity and buildable fit
Parcel size, shape, usable planning area, buildable envelope, data hall footprint, support-yard demand, and overall site-fit pressure.
Infrastructure exposure
Power, utility, cooling, water, generator, electrical yard, fuel, and infrastructure confirmation risks.
Access and operational logistics
Parking, loading, truck/service movement, fire/service access, equipment replacement path, and security entry assumptions.
Site constraints and risk flags
Stormwater reserve, sensitive edges, noise exposure, buffer requirements, zoning/code/AHJ exposure, environmental and civil confirmation items.
Sustainability and low-carbon strategy
LEED v5-related opportunities, low-water cooling strategy, low-carbon material direction, heat-island reduction, stormwater quality, and validation pathway.
Cost, schedule, and handoff
Planning-level risk signals, likely next-step consultant needs, confirmation register, decision path, and handoff materials.
Methodology
What DCFR is based on
DCFR outputs are based on user-provided site inputs, rule-based data center planning logic, visible site/context constraints, and planning-grade calculation assumptions. Outputs clearly separate calculated assumptions from items that require utility, civil, code, environmental, legal, or licensed professional confirmation.
User-provided inputs
Site location, acreage, target megawatt load, redundancy assumption, cooling preference, phasing intent, access assumptions, and schedule target.
Planning-grade calculation logic
MW-to-rack count, data hall module logic, building footprint assumptions, electrical yard, generator yard, cooling yard, parking, loading, fire access, stormwater, buffer, and expansion reserve calculations.
Visible site and context constraints
Parcel configuration, surrounding uses, access edges, sensitive neighbors, apparent utility corridors, and site organization constraints visible from available information.
DCFR planning assumptions
Early-stage allowances for data hall geometry, support yards, circulation, parking, loading, fire/service access, stormwater, landscape/acoustic buffers, and future expansion.
Confirmation-required items
Utility capacity, zoning, code interpretation, fire access, environmental constraints, civil grading, stormwater design, geotechnical conditions, acoustics, cost, schedule, and authority approvals.
Professional confirmation
Planning-grade output, confirmation-ready next steps
DCFR is a planning-grade decision-support package. It does not provide final engineering, stamped drawings, legal zoning opinions, utility capacity guarantees, environmental clearance, contractor pricing, permit approval, entitlement approval, or authority approval. The value of DCFR is that it organizes early assumptions, calculated outputs, visible constraints, and confirmation-required items before deeper professional review.
- Utility capacity and interconnection
- Zoning and code interpretation
- Civil grading, stormwater, drainage, and access design
- Survey, title, environmental, geotechnical, and acoustic studies
- Fire access and Authority Having Jurisdiction review
- Contractor pricing, procurement, cost, and schedule validation
- Permit, entitlement, and authority approvals
Screen candidate sites before committing to deeper due diligence.
Use DCFR to compare early feasibility signals, select one site, and prepare a planning-grade report package for internal review, investor discussion, broker coordination, and consultant handoff.