What many developers call data center site selection, we call location strategy and site development, because it involves so much more than selecting a site.

Data center site development is a critical component of the project lifecycle. At Stream Data Centers, site development ensures de-risked and shovel-ready sites that speed time to market for us—so we can get our customers the capacity they need, when and where they need it. A key outcome of data center site development is risk mitigation to avoid surprises, delays, or cost overruns later in the data center development process.

Successful data center site development requires maintaining a creative development mindset. In today’s environment, there is no such thing as a perfect site. Every site will require risk mitigation; the key is to identify each project’s unique challenges and to be creative in assessing how risks can be most quickly and easily mitigated. Mitigation of any given risk has multiple potential paths, and oftentimes the various project attributes are interrelated. All factors must be managed when optimizing a site.

Explore more in our executive brief Hyperscale Site Selection is About Finding Hidden Value and Mitigating Development Risk.