Powerland Map

Methodology

A record is only as good as what stands behind it

Nothing in the terminal is asserted without a source, a date and a stated confidence level. Where we do not know, the record says so

From signal to reviewed record

Detect

Filings, planning registers, utility publications, company releases, press and contributor inputs are monitored across every core market

All stages
  1. Detect · Filings, planning registers, utility publications, company releases, press and contributor inputs are monitored across every core market
  2. Corroborate · A record is only opened once at least one named, dated source exists. Single-source records are marked low confidence and never presented as fact
  3. Classify · Capacity is split across announced, requested, reserved, contracted and deliverable. Stage, land control, permitting and commercial status are set independently
  4. Challenge · Land, grid, engineering and transaction contributors test whether the stated position is physically and procedurally plausible
  5. Publish · A record cannot be published without a source, an observation date, a confidence level, a visibility level and a last-verified date
  6. Re-verify · Records are re-checked on cadence. Anything not re-verified within 90 days is flagged stale in the terminal and in the back office

Illustrative record

Fictional site update · Not a published record

Source
Not yet recorded
Observation date
Not yet recorded
Classification
Not yet recorded
Confidence
Not yet recorded
Human review
Not yet recorded
Verification
Not yet recorded
IT capacity
Not quantified
Grid headroom
Unknown throughout
Visibility
Internal review

Definitions

The exact meaning of every field a record carries

Verified IT MW
IT capacity explicitly published by an operator, a public authority or a source document held on the record. The only figure ever presented as evidenced capacity
Modelled IT MW
A directional analyst estimate, used only where no verified IT figure exists. Always labelled as modelled, never blended into verified totals, and never equivalent to contracted or deliverable capacity
Indicative IT MW
Verified IT MW plus modelled IT MW only where a verified figure is absent. The non-double-counted market total, always read as indicative rather than evidenced
Supply status
Where a site physically stands: live, under construction or in development. Set independently from capacity claims
Anonymised demand
A qualified search recorded as a signal — power range, target markets, timing, buyer category — with no counterparty name, ever
Match status
The state of an evidence-based match between commercialisable supply and active demand, under explicit eligibility rules that exclude live sites
Source date
The date the underlying evidence was produced — a filing date, a publication date — not the date we ingested it
Last verified date
The date an analyst last confirmed the record against its sources. Records not re-verified within 90 days are flagged stale
Confidence
High, medium or low, stated on every record, reflecting how independently the position is corroborated
Electricity price benchmark
A sourced public business or non-household electricity benchmark, shown with its source period, consumption band or scope, tax basis, source, confidence and last verification date. It is not a live spot price, a utility quote, a PPA or a guaranteed data center tariff, and cohorts differ between countries
Modelled annual electricity spend
The selected EUR/MWh benchmark multiplied by a selected constant electrical draw and 8,760 hours. Energy-only, based on electrical draw rather than IT MW, and excluding site and contract-specific adjustments
Network object
One published line segment or substation record in the power-network layer
Line segment
A mapped portion of an electricity line; not necessarily one complete transmission route
Substation
A mapped electricity-network facility from the underlying published source
Published network country
A country whose validated dataset is available in the production Power Intelligence layer
Network snapshot date
The effective date of the underlying dataset, or the date on which it was last verified
Capacity not publicly disclosed
What a record says when capacity is unknown. Zero is never displayed as a stand-in for missing data

Modelled capacity is directional context, not a commitment: it is never equivalent to contracted or deliverable capacity, and public figures are rounded up to whole megawatts without approximation symbols

Confidence levels

High

Multiple independent sources, or one authoritative filing, corroborated by a contributor

Medium

One solid source with consistent supporting context, not independently corroborated

Low

Single, weak or directional signal. Published as a signal, never as a position

Visibility levels

public

Publishable on the open web and to every subscriber

premium

Available to subscribers according to their plan entitlement

confidential

Restricted; not exposed through client-facing reads

mandate

Tied to a live mandate. Never surfaced to ordinary clients

platform

Internal platform operation only

Power network

How published network coverage should be read

  • — Proximity to a mapped network object does not establish available grid connection capacity.
  • — Published network coverage reflects the scope and completeness of the underlying source and may not represent every electricity asset in the market.

Matching

How demand and supply fit is assessed

The matching method is versioned, evidence-led and designed to identify candidates for analyst review rather than automate a transaction

Fictional matching example

Known inputs → Hard gates → Fit only when eligible

  • Fictional Cedar

    France · in development · 80 MW IT

    2028-06-01 · Synthetic evidence

    EligibleFit 90.0

    Known inputs pass · Delivery overlaps the target

    Evidence confidence: high · Separate from Fit

  • Fictional Harbour

    France · in development · IT not quantified

    Delivery unknown · Synthetic evidence

    Needs data

    Commercialisable IT capacity is unknown

    No score

  • Fictional Ridge

    France · under construction · 30 MW IT

    2029-06-01 · Synthetic evidence

    Rejected

    Commercialisable IT is below the requested minimum

    No score

  • Fictional Live

    France · operational · 100 MW IT

    2028-06-01 · Synthetic evidence

    Rejected

    Live and operational supply is excluded

    No score

  • Fictional Unconfirmed

    Poland · under construction · 100 MW IT

    2028-06-01 · Synthetic evidence

    Rejected

    Construction needs explicit commercialisable IT capacity

    No score

Fixed fictional assumptions and scoring weights

Active published buyer requirement in the current pool; AI/HPC capabilities, synthetic source grade A, high confidence and verification dated 8 October 2026. Locations and all quantities are invented. Construction is commercialisable only where explicitly stated; live sites remain excluded. Later delivery lowers timing Fit rather than automatically rejecting a candidate.

Power 35% · Delivery timing 30% · Geography 25% · Segment / technical fit 10%

How matching is calculatedOpen

Eligible demand classes

  • Buyer requirements: a qualified, anonymised commercial search
  • Modeled market demand: a published or validated analytical corridor, not an active buyer mandate
  • Public programs: a published public-sector requirement or development program
  • Contracted offtake: a published offtake requirement with a relevant delivery need

Current cycle and freshness

Demand must be active, published at the status required for its class, within its inclusive validity date and in the current research pool. Supply evidence needs a recent verification date. The calculation date is stored as generated_at on each match

Hard gates

  • The demand signal is active, within its validity date and in the current research pool
  • The demand class has the publication status required for its audience
  • Live and operational sites are excluded
  • Under-construction sites need explicitly commercialisable IT capacity
  • The site must meet the demand minimum IT power
  • The geographic rule must pass: country, region or stated radius
  • The demand and site must have structured delivery timing
  • Demand segments and site capabilities must be present and compatible
  • Evidence grade, confidence and a recent verification date must be present

Eligibility states

Eligible

All hard gates pass and every weighted component has known inputs, so a Fit score is calculated

Needs data

No hard gate failed, but one or more required inputs are unknown, so no Fit score is calculated

Rejected

At least one hard gate failed, so the candidate is excluded and no Fit score is calculated

Fit formula

Power
35%
Delivery timing
30%
Geography
25%
Segment / technical fit
10%

Fit = Power × 35% + Delivery timing × 30% + Geography × 25% + Segment / technical fit × 10%

  • Power compares explicitly commercialisable IT capacity with the demand minimum and is capped at 100
  • Delivery timing scores overlap at 100 and declines with the calendar-day gap between structured windows
  • Geography applies the demand rule: country, region or stated radius, with distance used for radius scoring
  • Segment / technical fit is the share of demand segments supported by the site, or 100 when no segment is requested

Unknown values never receive a score. A missing power, timing, geography, segment, evidence or freshness input produces Needs data rather than an invented zero or an optimistic estimate

Evidence confidence

Evidence confidence is separate from Fit. It describes how well the underlying record is corroborated; Fit describes how well the known demand and supply attributes align

Analyst review

  • Unreviewed — Stored candidate awaiting analyst review
  • Reviewed — Analyst has assessed the evidence and fit
  • Shortlisted — Candidate retained for the next qualification step
  • Rejected — Analyst has decided not to progress the candidate

Fictional worked example

A fictional demand needs 80 MW in a 100 km radius and a fictional site has 100 MW available. Its component scores are Power 100, Delivery timing 80, Geography 70 and Segment / technical fit 90

85.5 = 100 × 35% + 80 × 30% + 70 × 25% + 90 × 10%

Algorithm version matching-v2. Matching is analytical. It is not a commitment, guarantee of availability, introduction or offer

Source and confidentiality rules
  • — No confidential mandate information is published, whatever its origin
  • — Contributor inputs are aggregated into classifications, never republished verbatim
  • — Counterparties, clients and private processes are never disclosed
  • — Values and €/MW appear only where publicly disclosed
  • — Demo and illustrative records are permanently marked as demo

Contributor identities and individual inputs remain confidential unless publication is expressly authorised. Information is aggregated, verified and classified before release.

Cadence

Core European markets are updated when a change is verified against a named, dated source, and re-verified on a rolling 90-day cycle. Extended markets follow a scoped cadence agreed per account

See it in the terminal

Live coverage

Full coverage breakdown

Sourced IT capacity is published by an operator, authority or source document. Indicative IT capacity adds a modelled fallback only where sourced IT is unavailable. The two layers never overlap; site, campus and electrical capacity are excluded from IT MW

Built through more than two years of structured research, validation and expert analysis, and enriched daily. The value lies in the normalisation, evidence trails, verification and cross-market comparability behind each figure — not practically reproducible through a short-term scrape or simple public-source aggregation