Power first
Interconnection queue position, substation timing, and upgrade cost decide viability before any building question is asked.
In mission critical, power availability and delivery date are the deal. Everything else is negotiable.
Data center development is a power procurement business first and a construction business second. Available capacity, the utility's interconnection queue, substation timing, and the cost of an upgrade determine whether a site is viable at all — and those answers routinely take longer to obtain than entitlement does.
The rest follows from redundancy and thermal design: concurrent maintainability, generator and UPS topology, cooling approach, and water availability. Long-lead equipment procurement sits squarely on the critical path, so schedule commitments are made against equipment lead times rather than construction duration.
Interconnection queue position, substation timing, and upgrade cost decide viability before any building question is asked.
Concurrent maintainability, generator and UPS topology, cooling approach, and water availability set both cost and tenant fit.
Switchgear, generators, and chillers drive the schedule. Delivery dates are committed against lead times, not build duration.
Every one of these is carried in-house by a principal, not referred out.
Corporate occupiers & expanding operators
A build-to-suit is an operating decision before it is a real estate decision. Tell us what the operation needs and we will take it from site selection through delivery as one accountable party.