Where power is hard to get

Getting power is the constraint. Here is where.

Most power projects that apply to connect never get built. Each county below is shaded by how many did: green where the grid is open, red where it is gridlocked. Two identical-looking sites can sit years apart on power.

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Built for your scale

Scored to the size you are building.

A one-megawatt edge build and a gigawatt campus are different searches. DC Plug scores every site against the load you plan to place on it.

Edge

1 to 50 MW

For Neoclouds, GPU startups, regional colocation, and operators repurposing existing sites for AI.

At this scale, power is rarely the constraint, and we say so plainly when it isn't. Land, community, permitting, and connectivity decide the site.

You get a ranked shortlist of sites with a short path to power.

Distributed

51 to 100 MW

For mid-size developers, behind-the-meter and reuse strategies, and enterprise operators.

The mid-market, assessed on its own terms, not as a scaled-down hyperscale search.

You get a ranked shortlist plus a closer read on the sites worth pursuing.

Hyperscale

100 MW+

For developers, land bankers, and infrastructure investors siting campuses.

At campus scale, power is the binding constraint, and no site advances until its power is real.

You get deep per-site diligence on whether a site can carry the campus.

One standard across every scale, tested against real outcomes.

The blind test

Scored blind. Verified against history.

Ten publicly documented data-center outcomes, ten states. Inputs frozen to what was knowable at the time. The engine called all ten.

The verdict, scored blindScore / 100
Susquehanna, PAWon
99.9
Stargate Abilene, TXWon
94.2
Prince William Digital Gateway, VALost
0.0

+ 7 more in the full test

Both real winners ranked above all eight real losers. Unknowns were flagged, never guessed. Ten sites is a demonstration, not a statistical guarantee.

Get the full blind test

All ten verdicts, how the blind test was run, and the exhibit: the site that looked perfect, scored zero, and never got built. Eight slides, dated July 2026.

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