04 · Site selection
A geospatial index of BTM-viable properties — retiring coal plants, industrial parks with stranded capacity, brownfield sites with existing heavy-industrial zoning, and decommissioning nuclear assets — indexed, scored, and ready to run diligence on.
Preview
Filter by fuel type, retirement window, POI voltage, watershed, and zoning. Every row opens a diligence workspace with a regulatory pathway, upgrade cost model, and stakeholder map already loaded.
BTM-viable sites · 500 MW+
Filter: US · retirement by 2029 · 345 kV+ POI
The problem
Homer City is 1,884 MW of retired coal turning into a $10B gas-plus-data-center campus. It is not unique — it is the template. But the team that won Homer City had to reconcile EIA retirement data, NRC licensing data, PJM queue data, EPA environmental assessments, county zoning maps, and Pennsylvania utility service territory data by hand. That is the work we automate.
EIA retirement schedule
Homer City Redevelopment, 2025
EIA plant register
EIA, NRC, ISO, EPA, county GIS
The wedge
Meta’s land team has a shell-company pipeline. Google, Microsoft, AWS, Oracle — every hyperscaler has some variant of a geospatial dashboard that reconciles EIA, NRC, ISO, EPA, and county GIS data. None of them share. None of the operators who aren’t hyperscalers have one at all.
LandGate is the closest external competitor and they cover energy broadly. Transect handles environmental due diligence narrowly. Cushman & Wakefield’s Athena is an internal tool that external buyers cannot access. We ship the platform that hyperscalers have and everyone else lacks.
The database is both finite and enormously valuable. 120 coal plants. ~80 operating nuclear units. 800 brownfield sites with heavy-industrial zoning. 140 federally-recognized tribes with data-center-adjacent assets. We index all of them.
How it works
Retiring coal, decommissioning nuclear, stranded industrial transmission, brownfield heavy-industrial, tribal land, federal site — or a custom screen on your own criteria.
Pre-built screens plus a SQL-like query builder.
Every viable site surfaces with plant data, interconnection capacity, environmental remediation status, zoning classification, comparable deals, and a preliminary upgrade cost envelope.
Nightly ingestion from EIA, NRC, ISO queues, EPA, county GIS, OSHA, USGS, and the NPDES register.
Every shortlisted site gets a diligence workspace — a regulatory pathway analysis, a pro forma shell, a stakeholder map, and an upgrade cost model. Share with counsel, engineering, and finance in read-only.
Diligence artifacts exportable to PowerPoint, PDF, Snowflake, or Dropbox.
When you LOI a site, it graduates from browse to active. We track the predevelopment workflow across the other Cliffcenter solutions — queue, incentives, BTM, permits — in one project view.
Hand-off to Queue Intelligence and Incentive Optimization.
Features
Every US coal plant with a public retirement date, filtered by nameplate capacity, existing interconnection voltage, cooling water availability, and zoning classification. Ranked by conversion viability.
Operating, decommissioning, and recently-shuttered nuclear sites. Three Mile Island, Duane Arnold, Palisades, and every candidate for a Constellation-Microsoft-style restart deal.
Identify industrial parks, former auto plants, retired refineries, and chemical sites with transmission headroom that the existing owner is not using. These are the sites most likely to bypass ISO queue delays.
EPA Superfund, RCRA corrective action, state brownfield program status. Critical for anyone stacking brownfield redevelopment incentives on top of data center programs.
Heavy industrial vs. light industrial vs. agricultural, by parcel. Every county GIS in the US that publishes zoning, ingested and normalized. Zoning is where half of data center projects die.
Ohio EPA drafted the first-in-nation general NPDES permit for data centers in January 2026. Arizona proposed a $0.10/gallon fee on DC water use. We track every state framework, model withdrawal and discharge limits per parcel, and auto-generate Section 401 certification packages.
Surface water availability, reclaimed water infrastructure, watershed assessments, drought vulnerability, and PFAS risk in cooling fluids. Most water-positive PR announcements hide the engineering math; we surface it before your site acquisition team signs an LOI.
Sovereign land authority framework, existing PPAs with tribal utilities, Section 17 corporate charters, and the DOE tribal energy project pipeline. A first-class segment, not an afterthought.
Maine became the first state to ban data centers over 20 MW through November 2027 (LD 307). Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Georgia all have draft moratoriums. We track 300+ pending state DC bills across 30+ states in one dashboard so your site acquisition does not close into a freeze.
Data Center Watch logged $98B in projects blocked or delayed in Q2 2025 alone. We overlay active grassroots opposition groups, local ordinances, and moratorium risk on every site in the index.
For any site, generate a pathway analysis: zoning changes required, environmental reviews triggered, interconnection upgrades likely, tax abatement programs available, and the realistic timeline to first megawatt.
“Developers are turning to new greenfield sites because that’s where power and interconnection can come together at the scale customers need.”
Built for
Private equity and infrastructure funds assembling predevelopment pipelines. You need a shortlist filtered by realistic upgrade cost and regulatory pathway, not another Esri dashboard that lets you style parcels.
Babcock & Wilcox, Denham Capital, Homer City Redevelopment, Xcel Energy. You know the specific retired plant you want; we help you know why the one next door is better.
Meta Project Sucre. Google Council Bluffs. Microsoft Mount Pleasant. Your acquisition pipeline uses shell companies and code names; our data works whether the buyer is named or not.
If you own a retiring coal plant, a nuclear site with decommissioning reserves, or an industrial park with headroom, we help you find the right hyperscaler before they find a competitor’s site.
Public indices
We publish a curated public sample of the three most-watched Site Intelligence universes so buyers can see the shape of the full product. Customers get the full 800+ site database with nightly refresh, tunable fit weights, and per-site diligence workspaces.
120 retiring US coal plants scored for BTM fit. 12 sample sites.
Browse the sample →Public indexOperating, restart, and co-location candidates tracking NRC status. 10 sample sites.
Browse the sample →Public indexSteel, aluminum, and chemical sites with stranded transmission and heavy-industrial zoning. 8 sample sites.
Browse the sample →Pricing
Access the full index, run unlimited screens, and export up to 50 diligence memos per year.
Unlimited diligence workspaces, custom data layer requests, and a shared regulatory analyst.
Custom data ingestion from your own sources, on-prem deployment, SSO, and a dedicated engineer.
Questions
LandGate is the closest — they did a good BTM white paper in April 2026 and acquired Topos for AI diligence. They cover energy infrastructure broadly. Transect handles environmental due diligence. DatacenterHawk tracks capacity and leasing. None integrates plant retirement schedules, interconnection capacity, remediation status, and county zoning in a single searchable index. Most of our customers use at least one of the above alongside us.
Esri gives you a GIS canvas; we ship a decision tool. Cushman & Wakefield Athena is an internal platform that is not available to external buyers. We offer what internal platforms at CBRE and JLL offer — but for anyone, and with the specific data layers data center buyers need.
Public ISO queue data, EIA plant data, and EPA environmental data refresh nightly. County zoning and parcel data refresh weekly. NRC licensing and federal register notices refresh hourly. Every record carries a last-verified timestamp and a source URL.
We index tribal nations with public interest in hosting data center or generation assets, their sovereign authority frameworks, existing PPAs, Section 17 corporate charters, DOE project pipeline records, and publicly stated tribal priorities. A first-class segment because the DOE and Payne Institute have both flagged it as underserved.
Yes. Browse allows 50 diligence memo exports per year with full-fidelity data. Diligence allows unlimited. Enterprise allows raw data export with rate limits set per contract.
Yes — we have adapters for Asana, Monday, Airtable, Notion, Coda, Hubspot, Salesforce, and Snowflake. Custom integrations on Enterprise plans.
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Site Intelligence
Tell us your MW, geography, fuel preference, and budget. In 72 hours you get a ranked shortlist of 10–50 viable sites, each with a regulatory pathway and a preliminary cost envelope.