Practical perspectives on site selection, economic development, and the space between data and decision. No fluff - just what practitioners actually need to know.
Your EDO deck says 'deep pool of available skilled workers.' The BLS data backing that claim is 18 months old. Here's how live job posting intelligence fills the gap — and what it reveals that the workforce study won't.
Define what matters, screen quickly, validate ruthlessly, and negotiate from a position of clarity. A practical end-to-end guide to the corporate site selection process — with realistic timelines, a pre-start checklist, and the mistakes that derail projects.
A targeted industry study isn't shelfware. It's a decision tool built to answer what types of projects you're most likely to win in the next 12 36 months and what you need to do to win them.
If a market can't house the workforce, the 'win' is fragile. A field memo on why housing has become the constraint that quietly undermines all the other inputs and the specific moves communities can make to stay competitive.
Everyone has a checklist. Power. Land. Fiber. Tax incentives. But if you've spent any time in data center site selection at scale, you know the checklist is the easy part. Here's what the spreadsheet doesn't tell you.
After 15 years on both sides of the table, here's what site selectors actually look for and why the gap is almost never about the community itself. It's about how you present, position, and package what you have.
You're expanding. The capital commitment is real. So someone in the room says: 'Should we hire a site selection consultant?' Good question. Here's the honest answer.
The term gets thrown around in every RFI response and community marketing piece. But when a company shows up with a 14-month construction timeline and a board that expects groundbreaking in Q3, 'shovel-ready' stops being a label and starts being a liability.
The most common project killer isn't bad data or weak incentives it's misalignment between corporate expectations and community capacity. Here's how to identify the gaps early and close them before they cost you months.
Every data center search starts with the same question: where can we get reliable, affordable power at scale? The answer is getting harder. Here's how we structure the search around the critical path.
Incentives can meaningfully change project economics but only when they're structured around real operational needs, not headline numbers. We break down what actually matters in a negotiation.
Most workforce studies answer 'Can we hire?' The real question is 'Can we staff it sustainably at Month 18 when turnover hits and the training pipeline needs to be self-sustaining?' Here's how we approach it differently.
After reviewing hundreds of RFI responses from both sides of the table, patterns emerge. These five mistakes are the most common and the most avoidable.
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