/tags/siting/ Recent content in Siting on Werk Space Hugo en Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:53:48 +0000 /policy/datacenters/where-datacenters-build/ Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /policy/datacenters/where-datacenters-build/ <h2 id="the-premise">The premise</h2> <p>A company may say many things about the requirements of when, where, why, and how they build a data center. The full and true reasons of the company&rsquo;s decisions lie in the site location they eventually chose.</p> <p><strong>The siting record is the requirements document.</strong></p> <p>Two definitions first. A data center is a facility housing computing equipment. The large data centers in this analysis are campus-scale facilities of 100 megawatts or more, owned or leased by companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Apple, Oracle, and a few AI-specific entrants. This dataset covers twenty-five years of construction.</p>