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.

Six linked layers.

Power, land, planning, utilities, demand and delivery are separate disciplines. They are also connected: a weakness in one can change the practical value of the rest.

• 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.