Location Strategy and Development

Exploding data center demand and constrained utility availability have made identifying viable sites more challenging than ever. Fortunately for our customers, we’ve never been a fan of the traditional broker-driven site selection process.

Instead, Stream has cultivated a comprehensive discipline we call location strategy, because we don’t just screen and tour available sites in a market. Leveraging proprietary GIS-based tools and thorough feasibility assessments, deep development expertise, and a team that includes former hyperscale professionals, we identify often-overlooked sites that can be developed as de-risked, shovel-ready opportunities and brought to market quickly.

Our Location Strategy team:

  • Assesses market conditions and utility capacity constraints
  • Incorporates customer-specific technical requirements
  • Defines Critical Location Factors tailored to each deployment
  • Works directly with utilities, municipalities, landowners and other stakeholders in a region or utility territory to identify a list of on- and off-market properties that meet our criteria
  • For markets facing severe grid constraints, Stream evaluates on-site energy alternatives, including gas generation and emerging hydrogen solutions, for bridging or long-term power strategies

Learn more about our location strategy & site development processes.

Build-to-Suit Data Centers

Through a collaborative and transparent customer-centric process, Stream delivers configurable data center solutions designed for complex requirements and aggressive schedules. Our approach is defined by:

  • Participative (not prescriptive) partnerships with customers
  • Proven data center site selection and location development strategies
  • Deal structures that balance certainty with flexibility by matching delivery timelines to business needs
  • Industry-leading design and construction teams leveraging our signature ‘standardized but configurable’ kit of parts approach to meet evolving requirements
  • A resilient, reliable supply chain discipline aided by deep, long-standing partnerships with key OEMs, industry-leading vendors and a focus on OFCI practices
  • A ‘no surprises’ delivery commitment

Backed by more than two decades of delivering fully commissioned data centers and powered shells, Stream’s build-to-suit solutions are delivered up to 33% faster than the market average — without sacrificing quality, reliability or future flexibility.

Learn more about how we deliver build-to-suit data centers.

AI Readiness

At Stream, AI readiness means delivering scalable data center development practices and flexible infrastructure solutions that evolve as fast as AI workloads and adapt to shifting hyperscale forecasts. This comprehensive, configurable approach helps our customers maintain control and optionality, all while minimizing risk and maximizing speed for predictable and efficient capacity growth.

We achieve this readiness by combining:

  • Strategic site development and power planning
  • A 4+ GW active power pipeline across the United States
  • Long-term and world-class capital support
  • Scalable, configurable facility designs

In addition, Stream’s proprietary hybrid-cooling technology and data center design supports air cooling today and direct liquid cooling in the future (plus any combination of both in between), allowing customers to transition to higher-density AI workloads with minimal equipment additions, minimal cost and minimal operational disruption.

Together, these strategies help hyperscalers manage changing demand forecasts and shifting technical AI requirements to scale with confidence.

Learn more about our AI readiness.

Wholesale Colocation

Stream’s turnkey data center capacity is move-in ready at select data centers for customers who can’t wait for new development cycles. We invest in advance so our customers have immediately available capacity when it’s needed to keep pace with growth drivers. At the same time, our deployments are flexible enough to be adapted to suit each customer’s particular needs.

Our wholesale colocation solutions are:

  • Fast, enabling rapid deployment in valuable markets
  • Resilient, providing 99.999% uptime without costly and complex over-engineering
  • Flexible, thanks to adaptable footprint, density, electric topology, power delivery and network configuration
  • Connected via carrier-neutral access, direct cloud connections and free cross connects

In short, wholesale colocation with Stream eliminates the two biggest friction points for data center customers: waiting for capacity and adapting to someone else’s infrastructure standards.

Learn more about our colocation solutions.

Data Center Operations

Our people and processes ensure optimal performance, cost containment and risk mitigation. So, despite the uncertainties of the world outside — environmental or human factors — Stream facilities remain safe, secure and compliant while your services remain available.

In over two decades, we have never dropped a workload.

Our culture of operational excellence is built and maintained by:

  • A robust ongoing training and certification curriculum
  • Trusted 1:1 relationships with our customers’ teams
  • Whole-person recruiting focused on knowledge and attitude, skills and culture

This commitment to operational excellence means that customers never have to worry about availability.

Learn more about our data center operations.

How Stream delivers exceptional customer outcomes.

Speed to market

We understand that when you need capacity, you need it quickly. So Stream invests in your success through smart, capital-equipped speculative development in markets where we see future demand. Our team members are empowered to make quick, informed decisions and partner closely with customers to expedite delivery.

Flexibility

With Stream’s scalable and configurable design, your data center will keep pace. Deploy what you need and expand later by growing your footprint or increasing density. Modular system components allow for cost-effective, low-impact upgrades, and at every scale, we meet and exceed industry standards to ensure your quality expectations are met.

Resiliency

Stream is trusted by the largest and most sophisticated companies in the world for good reason. In over two decades, we have never dropped a workload. We ensure resilience without costly and complex over-engineering; and our current generation of facilities has the lowest per megawatt cost in our history while meeting IEEE standards for delivering 99.999% uptime.

Connectivity

Stream chooses locations with excellent network connectivity to a mix of carrier types offering both lit and dark fiber services. We optimize network design for low-latency applications, adaptable bandwidth requirements and public cloud optimization. Our facilities are carrier-neutral, and cross connects are turned up quickly.