Our experience and lessons learned with data center development led us to create this practical guide for communities to use when evaluating data center opportunities, infrastructure, fiscal impacts, workforce needs and long-term community value.
Data center proposals can move quickly. Community decisions should not. The guide provides local leaders with a consistent framework for evaluating a project from initial consideration through development, construction and ongoing operations. Communities can use it before a project arrives to establish priorities and prepare their evaluation process or during an active project to guide technical review, decision-making, communication and long-term tracking. View the helpful guide as a digital flipbook or download and print as a PDF.