Parcel screening for data-center sites

Know what the land can carry.

Screen any Texas parcel for power, substations, gas, and the current owner in your browser. Free to look. One membership for the reports and the daily brief.

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Screening map, sample parcel Bosque County, TX

Five systems. One verdict.

Every screening runs the same five assessments. Each one has killed real deals, usually after the buyer had already spent six figures finding out.

Power interconnection

Whether the grid can actually deliver your load, and when. Utility territory, transmission proximity, queue reality, and a defensible estimate of time to energization.

Checks: utility territory / line distance and voltage / queue position signals / energization window

Substations

Distance is the easy part. We look at ownership, age, and whether the headroom on file survives contact with the utility’s actual plans.

Checks: distance / ownership / stated headroom / planned upgrades

Natural gas

Pipeline proximity, capacity class, and a realistic read on tap feasibility and lateral cost for on-site generation.

Checks: main distance / diameter / operator / tap feasibility

Flood risk

FEMA zones and floodway conflicts mapped against the buildable envelope, not just the parcel boundary.

Checks: FEMA zones / floodway overlap / drainage easements

Air quality

Attainment status and the permitting path for backup generation. Nonattainment counties can add a year before you pour concrete.

Checks: attainment status / generator permit path / timeline risk

Not included: title work, environmental Phase I, geotech, or water rights. That’s diligence. This is the filter that decides whether diligence is worth buying.

The report reads like a decision.

Twenty-two pages, but the answer is on page one. Here is the shape of it.

A verdict, not a maybe

Proceed, conditional, or walk. Written in plain language you can forward to an investment committee.

Sources you can check

Utility filings, FEMA layers, pipeline maps, permitting registries. Cited by page, not “our proprietary model.”

Maps for every system

Each assessment ships with the GIS overlay behind it, so your engineers can pick up where we stopped.

Parcel to verdict in a sitting.

  1. Find the parcel

    Search an owner, prop ID, city, or county on the free map, or let the statewide index rank every parcel that fits your filters.

  2. It screens itself

    Every parcel on screen is measured from its boundary to the nearest 345 kV line, substation, and gas pipeline, then scored by one fixed rule set. Owner names are checked against the county appraisal district as you look.

  3. Generate the report

    One click builds the written report for a parcel or an assemblage, with the map, the distances, the current owner, and the open items — and a link you can forward.

Cheap enough to screen every parcel you are considering. So the disqualifying problem shows up before you spend anything.

The expensive mistake is not the site you walk away from. It is the one you carried for three months before the grid told you no.

One membership. Both products.

Unlimited screening reports and the daily Capital Signal Brief for one flat price, or a single report with no subscription.

Membership
$25per month

Unlimited reports on any parcel or assemblage in Texas, plus the Capital Signal Brief every morning: who just got funded to build capacity, and who says they need it.

  • Unlimited screening reports, single parcels or assemblages
  • Statewide matching: every parcel ranked against your filters, exportable to CSV
  • Current owner from the county appraisal district, with a direct link to the record
  • The Capital Signal Brief, daily, with what was filed versus what was reported
Single report
$10one parcel or assemblage

No subscription. The trial: pick the parcel, get the report.

The map is free

Search, screen, save, and export without an account. Reports are the product.

Beta

Billing is not live yet. Reports are free during the beta, and nothing on this page can charge you.

Questions buyers actually ask.

Is this a substitute for full diligence?

No, and we’d be suspicious of anyone who said otherwise. This is the step before diligence: a fast, cheap read on whether the site deserves the expensive work. Title, Phase I, geotech, and water still belong to your diligence team.

What happens if the parcel fails the screen?

You get the same report with an Out verdict and the specific reasons: how far the 345 kV line is, whether a pipeline is in reach, what the acreage caps. A kill is the product working, and it costs the same as a pass.

Do you take equity, success fees, or referral fees?

No. A flat membership, no position in your deal, no fees from utilities, brokers, or anyone else in the transaction. The report has no reason to lean either direction.

What do you need from me to start?

Nothing. Open the map, find the parcel by owner, prop ID, city, or county, and press Generate report. No account, no upload, no call.

Where does it work?

All of Texas today: every parcel in all 254 counties, screened against the same transmission, substation, and pipeline layers. Other states follow the same pipeline once their parcel data is in.

How current is the data behind the report?

Parcels come from the state’s 2025 appraisal-roll compilation; owner names are re-checked live against the county appraisal district whenever a parcel is opened, and the report says which source it used. Transmission and pipeline layers are refreshed with each data build and dated in the report.