How it works
From candidate sites to planning-grade reports.
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.
DCFR is optimized for U.S. sites. International screening depends on adequate local site and infrastructure data. Qualified local professionals and authorities must confirm code, fire, land-use, utility, environmental, and permitting requirements.
Workflow
A structured workflow for early data center site decisions
Submit candidate sites
Submit up to 20 candidate locations with the best available project information. Identify unknowns so they remain visible in the review.
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
Each candidate is evaluated against the same planning criteria, making differences and information gaps easier to compare.
DCFR reviews
- Gross acreage versus likely usable planning area
- Parcel configuration and apparent buildable envelope
- Target megawatt load 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
Use the comparison to shortlist, reject, or hold candidates for confirmation. Screening and detailed analysis runs are subject to your plan’s monthly allowance.
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
Choose a shortlisted site for a full feasibility report. The seven-module analysis develops its capacity, constraints, development options, and next steps.
Selected full report includes
- Executive feasibility verdict
- Parcel capacity and site-fit model
- Planning-grade technical site-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 Platform
Compare candidates first, then develop a full report for a selected site.
Output 01
Preliminary 20-site comparison package
A side-by-side record of candidate strengths, constraints, and unresolved questions.
- 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
Full selected-site feasibility report
A coordinated seven-module package for project review and consultant handoff.
- Selected-site feasibility verdict
- Site-fit and capacity logic
- Planning-level area allocation
- Technical site-layout and visual feasibility pages
- Infrastructure and utility exposure review
- Sustainability and low-carbon strategy
- Risk register and confirmation register
- Consultant handoff materials
Use the report
What your team can do with the report
Give owners, brokers, investors, and consultants a shared basis for the next land decision.
- 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
Each finding should be traceable to its inputs and planning assumptions, with unresolved questions clearly identified for 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.
- 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.
Start with your candidate locations and the project information you already have.