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Perspectives from the ground.

Working notes on grid capacity, consents, connectivity and the parts of site development that decide whether a project happens.

Market

What AI workloads ask of a site

Training follows power north. Inference pays for proximity in the south. The difference is decided at the land stage, not in the data hall.

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Market

What grid queue reform actually changes for site developers

Reforms to connection queue management shift risk from the network operator to the applicant. Developers who cannot demonstrate readiness will lose position.

Perspective

What supercharging programs and data center sites have in common

A charging program depends on the same three things a data center project does: grid capacity, land control and dates that hold. Only the scale changes.

Perspective

Ready to build is a standard, not an adjective

Six tests an operator should apply before accepting that a site is genuinely ready, and what each one costs to fix if the answer is no.

Sustainability

The economics of heat recovery in northern networks

District heating offtake changes the siting calculus. The constraint is rarely technical, and almost always about who signs first.

Landowners

Option agreements, explained for landowners

What an option actually commits you to, how exclusivity periods are priced, and the questions worth asking before signing.

Infrastructure

Redundancy that shares a trench is not redundancy

Verifying physical route diversity is tedious, unglamorous and the single most common gap we find in third-party site packages.

Market

Four electricity markets, one country

Sweden’s price areas are not a technicality. They are the single largest lever on a data center’s operating cost, and they are set by geography.

Permitting

The appeal window is part of the program

A granted permit that can still be appealed is a probability, not an asset. Why we transfer decisions only after the window has closed.

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The full set of working notes, listed chronologically.

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