Land, Permitting, and Environmental
Title commitment is a title insurer's offer to issue a policy subject to listed requirements and exceptions. For powered land, title review should focus on easements, access, mineral rights, utility rights, restrictions, and matters that could interfere with power or fiber routing.
Transmission owner owns transmission facilities and may be distinct from the utility serving the customer or the RTO/ISO operating the grid. This distinction matters for interconnection, upgrade ownership, cost allocation, and outage coordination.
Read definition →Purchase and Sale Agreement is the contract governing acquisition of real property. For powered land, the PSA should align diligence, title, easements, utility milestones, zoning, environmental risk, and closing conditions.
Read definition →Megawatt equals 1,000 kW and is the dominant shorthand for data center power scale. A site marketed as "100 MW" still needs clarification: utility deliverability, ramp timing, redundancy assumptions, IT load versus facility load, and whether the number is contracted, studied, or aspirational.
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