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Site-scoring playbook

Score candidate sites the way hyperscaler siting teams do: power availability and speed-to-MW, interconnect and permitting, power price, land, water and climate, incentives.

Site-scoring playbook

64 / 100 · Workable with mitigation

Weights reflect the reordered 2026 hierarchy — power availability now leads, ahead of latency and land. Tune to your workload (training tolerates latency; inference doesn't) → Ch 3.13.

All models are open — change any default to your case, then save, share a permalink, or export to CSV. See the full calculator suite.