Site plan approval
Site plan approval is local review of the development layout, access, grading, stormwater, utilities, landscaping, lighting, and other site improvements. It often becomes a schedule driver after land control and zoning are resolved.
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Water rights are legal rights to withdraw, consume, or use water. They matter for data center site selection because availability, priority, transferability, drought risk, and local politics can constrain water-intensive cooling strategies.
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A substation is a facility that switches, protects, transforms, meters, and controls power flows between grid elements or to a customer. For data center development, substation feasibility includes land, equipment, utility ownership, interconnection, transformer capacity, relay design, and schedule.
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