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Data Center Location Strategy & Site Development

Well-positioned sites

Reducing lead-time and minimizing risk

Data center site selection and development are critical components of the project lifecycle. Our data center development process creates safe and shovel-ready sites. This helps us speed up time to market so we can provide capacity when and where it’s needed.

Our local collaborations, due diligence processes, zoning and land use permitting, utility upgrades and interconnections, energy procurement and economic development incentive negotiations produce outcomes that include:

Well-positioned properties with strong fundamentals to support sustainable, scalable and cost-optimized data center locations
Risk mitigation to avoid surprises, delays or cost overruns later in the data center development process
Accelerated deployments focused on incremental capacity delivery to meet near-term needs while building ramps for long-term scalability
Flexibility to develop the property as customers see fit. Stream offers a range of products, including wholesale colocation, build-to-suit options and a dedicated campus environment

Proven Success

We have developed and refined a proven data center location and development process to identify ideal data center sites (those that meet our customers’ Critical Location Factors) and bring them to a shovel-ready state (reducing lead time and mitigating environmental, community, legal and economic risks). This process ensures that there are no delays or surprises during the construction and operational phases.

Creativity

Proven data center development processes combined with creativity maximize site value. In site development, each action creates multiple paths, and oftentimes the various project attributes are interrelated.

At Stream, we always manage diverse factors to optimize site capacity and reduce costs. We also focus on simplicity and speed.

Commitment to a Win-Win-Win

Before the first shovel hits the ground, our data center development team works to ensure long-term value is achieved for the original landowner, data center owner/operator, tenants, the power utility and surrounding community. We balance our industry’s growth with environmental and community needs and focus on developing sites that are beneficial for both.

Land development to reduce the ‘Cone of Uncertainty’

Stream’s data center location strategy team leaders Mike Lebow and Oisín Ó Murchú (both seasoned hyperscale data center, real estate and utility development professionals) write that buying and developing shovel-ready land sites can lower risks for data-center operators. This approach lets operators wait to spend large amounts of money until they see confirmed demand.

They cite a 200-plus-item due-diligence checklist and proprietary modelling to vet sites, emphasize postponing CapEx until clarity emerges and note that assets developed with confirmed customers and utility alignment distinguish “real” developers from speculative ones.

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It's time to take a chapter from the hyperscale playbook

Mike Lebow, Senior Vice President of Location Strategy & Development at Stream, observes that traditional colocation site selection models are no longer sufficient as hyperscale demand accelerates and truly shovel-ready sites become scarce. Successful data center developers increasingly rely on creative tactics like parcel assembly and proactive permitting to reduce risk, enabling scalable, cost-optimized capacity that can be delivered on time in a constrained power and land environment.

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Mike Lebow

Senior Vice President, Location Strategy

Oisín Ó Murchú

Chief Development Officer

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What we do

Beyond Location Strategy and Development

For over two decades, we have worked with top companies to improve mission-critical infrastructure and data center development. We have created a range of solutions to meet the complex needs of enterprises and hyperscalers. All projects are delivered with our signature holistic approach to customer success.

Build-to-Suit Data Centers

This is a fully commissioned data center or powered shell built to suit your needs. It could be adjacent to one of our existing data centers — or wherever else you need to be. We can operate it, or you can.

AI Readiness

The AI sea change has come, and it requires configurable liquid cooling. So, we designed a proprietary cooling system that supports air cooling today and liquid cooling when you’re ready — in any ratio, with flexibility built in for change.

Wholesale Colocation

This is wholesale capacity ready today at one of our available data centers. It’s turnkey, and adaptable; we can customize to meet your unique requirements.

Data Center Operations

Honed over more than two decades of continuous innovation, our people and processes ensure optimal performance, cost containment and risk mitigation.

Trust Stream as an enduring partner for meeting your evolving data center needs.

In our 27^th year with a successful track record of data center projects in our past, present and future development portfolio, Stream is proud to offer location strategy, site development, build-to-suit data center solutions and immediate availability in key markets. Learn more about Stream’s controlled land sites across the US, and spacious hyperscale campuses in Phoenix, San Antonio, Dallas, Chicago and Atlanta, and beyond.

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