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Site selection

A site is more than land near power.

A digital-infrastructure site needs a coherent relationship between its physical footprint and the systems that will serve it.

Power and fibre

Capacity, connection and route diversity

Land and planning

Control, constraints and approvals

Utilities and delivery

Serviceability, access and staging

Illustrative framework. Each opportunity requires its own assessment.

Six connected disciplines.

Power, fibre, land, planning, utilities and delivery are separate disciplines. They are also connected: a weakness in one can change the practical value of the rest. Operator demand shapes what the combined system needs to support.

  • Land determines space, interfaces, access and staging.
  • Planning governs the pathway through authority and community requirements.
  • Utilities and fibre influence resilience and operational design.
  • Demand and delivery partners define what must actually be built.

Assess the relationships early.

Strong projects are not created by a single favourable attribute. They are advanced by testing the interaction between the whole system before a commitment is represented as certain.

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