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Leasing, Transactions, and Commercial Terms

Ground lease

Ground lease is a long-term lease of land where the tenant may develop improvements. It can be useful for data center campuses but requires careful handling of utility rights, financing, casualty, reversion, and tax obligations.

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Wetlands

Wetlands are aquatic or saturated areas that may be regulated under federal, state, or local programs. A wetland constraint can affect developable acreage, mitigation cost, permit timeline, and transmission or access routing.

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Latency

Latency is time delay for data to travel between points. AI training, financial trading, cloud connectivity, and replication workloads can have different latency sensitivities, so site value depends on workload-specific requirements.

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MVA

Megavolt-ampere is apparent power at utility or substation scale. A transformer rated 100 MVA does not necessarily provide 100 MW of usable real power unless power factor, loading limits, cooling, redundancy, and utility operating constraints support it.

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