Purpose-built intelligence for digital infrastructure

The site intelligence platform for data center development

Datashark helps teams evaluate land, power, infrastructure, and development risk before committing serious time or capital.

26 diligence categories
200-point scoring model
Built for repeatable site evaluation

Built to turn fragmented site diligence into a faster, clearer, and more repeatable decision-making workflow.

What Datashark evaluates
26+
Core intelligence layers
Power availability
Land and parcel suitability
Infrastructure proximity
Built for teams evaluating
  • Data center site selection
  • Energy and infrastructure readiness
  • Project risk and development constraints
  • Market, location, and feasibility signals

Why now

The buildout is accelerating.
Site selection is the choke point.

Power, water, land, fiber, permitting, and timing now determine whether a site is real — or dead on arrival.

$7T+
Projected data center infrastructure spend by 2030
McKinsey
~945 TWh
Projected global data center electricity demand
IEA
226 GW
Large-load interconnection requests in ERCOT
ERCOT

What changed

AI demand is compressing development timelines and increasing power constraints.
The penalty for weak screening has grown — bad sites burn capital, consultants, and executive time.
Institutional buyers still rely on fragmented, manual diligence for early go/no-go decisions.

Implication for Data Shark

As capital flows increase and infrastructure constraints tighten, a standardized underwriting workflow becomes critical.

More capital More constraints More risk
→ Structured underwriting becomes the edge

The problem

Today’s site-selection workflow is still stitched together by hand

The raw material exists. The decision system usually does not.

Fragmented inputs

Critical facts live across broker teasers, GIS maps, utility notes, environmental reports, and internal spreadsheets — with no unified structure.

Late fatal-flaw discovery

Power, water, land, or permitting issues are often surfaced after time and money have already been spent on diligence.

No scoring framework

Each opportunity is evaluated differently, making portfolio comparisons inconsistent and subjective.

Weak decision packaging

Investment committees and buyers receive summaries — not structured, underwriting-grade outputs.

What the workflow actually looks like today
Broker teaser
Maps / GIS
Utility notes
Env / hydro / geotech
Spreadsheets
↓ stitched manually ↓
Inconsistent evaluation
Late risk discovery
Weak comparability
Capital is spent before conviction is built.

The solution

Data Shark standardizes how sites are screened, scored, and packaged

Not a generic summarizer. A structured underwriting workflow for digital infrastructure.

1

Ingest

Teasers, maps, reports, utility notes, and worksheets enter one workflow.

2

Normalize

Core project fields are standardized and gaps are surfaced immediately.

3

Evaluate

The platform assesses the site against infrastructure-specific criteria.

4

Score

A 200-point framework drives disposition, prioritization, and buyer fit.

5

Package

Outputs become IC-ready and market-ready rather than ad hoc.

Inputs
  • Project teaser PDFs
  • Environmental / hydro / geotech reports
  • Utility and transmission notes
  • Land, access, fiber, and permitting details
Underwriting core

One fixed scoring contract

Data Shark applies a repeatable underwriting logic and flags missing evidence so the same framework can be reused across opportunities.

Outputs
  • Normalized intake file
  • Scored matrix with data gaps
  • Opportunity brief for internal or external use

Live demo preview

See how Data Shark turns raw site inputs into a decision-ready underwriting output

Built for investors, developers, and partners who need a faster way to screen opportunities, surface missing evidence, and package cleaner decisions.

Sample project

Houston County, TX

Demo Mode
ERCOT
Texas
3,916 acres
Adjacent substation + nearby transmission and distribution assets
Groundwater feasibility noted for construction and operations
Fiber lateral extension optionality from nearby regional corridors
No obvious fatal flaw indicated in primary development zones
Output preview

Underwriting result

Score 172 High Priority
Normalized score 86 / 100
Disposition Go-to-market
Buyer fit Hyperscaler / major operator
Category snapshot
Power & Energy36 / 40
Market Access35 / 40
Land34 / 40
Environmental29 / 35
Water20 / 25
Missing evidence flags
  • Utility deliverability still requires direct confirmation
  • Fiber route and timing should be validated with provider-level detail
  • Permitting timeline requires localized diligence
Packaging output
  • Normalized intake file
  • Scored matrix with data gaps
  • Opportunity brief for internal or external use
Underwriting summary

Large-scale ERCOT opportunity with strong land position, attractive power context, workable water narrative, and enough infrastructure support to advance into focused diligence and buyer-facing packaging.

Scoring engine

The core product is a 26-subject, 200-point underwriting model

The model reflects how real infrastructure buyers evaluate risk, scalability, and marketability.

26
subjects
scored across eight categories
200
points
drive disposition and buyer fit
Framework

The underwriting logic is already defined in the internal scoring workbook and maps directly to customer-type recommendations.

Category weighting

Power & Energy 40
Market Access 40
Land 40
Environmental 35
Water 25
Development Readiness 10
Customer Fit 5
Floodplain / Natural Disaster 5
Why this matters

Not all criteria deserve equal weight

Data Shark gives more scoring power to the infrastructure constraints that actually decide whether a site survives underwriting.

  • Power availability and deliverability drive feasibility.
  • Market access shapes long-term buyer relevance.
  • Land quality and control affect scalability and execution.
  • Lower-weight categories still matter, but do not distort the decision.
Product edge

The result is a scoring model that is reusable across opportunities, easier to audit, and more useful for portfolio comparison than ad hoc deal-by-deal judgment.

Customer value

Investors and developers use the same system for different jobs

The value is speed with discipline, not speed without judgment.

For investors

Screen more opportunities without scaling diligence headcount linearly

  • Apply a common scoring standard across sites, markets, and counterparties.
  • Focus third-party diligence spend on the opportunities most likely to survive underwriting.
  • Improve IC readiness with more structured, evidence-aware decision outputs.
  • Reject weak sites earlier before time, fees, and internal attention compound.
For developers

Tighten site packages before taking them to funds, buyers, and strategic partners

  • Surface weaknesses early enough to fix positioning or kill the effort before it drags on.
  • Match sites to the buyer profile that actually fits the asset.
  • Create more consistent briefs for partner outreach, data rooms, and diligence conversations.
  • Package opportunities in a cleaner, more underwriting-ready format.
Commercial model
Annual licenses

Single-user or analyst workflows for site screening and package generation.

Team subscriptions

Shared templates, common scoring standards, and repeatable internal review flows.

Enterprise deployments

Portfolio-wide underwriting standards, collaboration, and operating discipline.

Services remain limited to onboarding and setup support, keeping the business aligned around recurring software rather than project-by-project report work.

Proof of output

The system is already producing real project work

Illustrative internal package based on the Houston County, Texas opportunity summary.

Illustrative opportunity

Houston County, TX

Score 172
High Priority Data center site Packaging-ready
Acreage 3,916 acres
Power context Adjacent substation
Transmission Multiple nearby assets
Water Groundwater feasibility noted
Fiber Lateral extension optionality
Fatal flaw No obvious primary-zone issue
Illustrative underwriting snapshot

Large-scale site with expansion upside under discussion, adjacent substation access, nearby transmission and distribution infrastructure, workable water narrative, and fiber optionality that supports further diligence.

What Data Shark does in this workflow

Consolidate

Collect fragmented diligence into one structured operating file.

Frame risk

Turn raw facts into consistent site-underwriting criteria.

Score

Push the opportunity through a fixed decision model rather than subjective ad hoc review.

Package

Produce a cleaner opportunity brief for internal and external conversations.

Result

Instead of a loose collection of reports and notes, the opportunity becomes a repeatable underwriting file, a scored matrix, and a cleaner decision-ready brief.

Business model

Recurring software,
not project-by-project work

The long-term value is in standardizing a workflow across teams and portfolios.

Pricing structure

Professional license

Single-user or analyst workflows for opportunity screening and package generation.

Team subscription

Shared templates, common scoring standards, and repeatable internal review flows.

Enterprise deployment

Portfolio-wide underwriting standards, role-based collaboration, and internal operating discipline.

Adoption motion
1
Internal workflow

Refine the product against live opportunity work.

2
Design partners

Prove repeatability with outside investors and developers.

3
Recurring accounts

Convert point use into team subscriptions.

4
Enterprise expansion

Embed across pipelines, committees, and portfolios.

Land & expand
One opportunity workflow Shared team standard Portfolio comparability Institutional adoption

Why Data Shark wins

This layer is specialized,
repeated, and currently fragmented

Today’s workflow is split across consultants, spreadsheets, and generic tools. Data Shark consolidates it into a single underwriting system.

Consultants
Spreadsheets
Generic AI
Data Shark
Domain-specific scoring logic
Auditable work products
Reusable workflow
Portfolio comparability
Market-ready packaging
Data Shark combines domain expertise, structured scoring, and packaging into a single repeatable workflow.

The opportunity

Building the operating layer for site underwriting

Data Shark standardizes how opportunities are evaluated, compared, and packaged across teams and portfolios.

$2M Raise

Seed capital to build product, data integrations, and early customer base.

Focused build

Scoring engine, workflow system, and packaging layer already defined.

Clear adoption path

Internal workflows → design partners → recurring accounts → enterprise expansion.

What this becomes

A standard system used
across every opportunity

  • Replace fragmented diligence workflows
  • Create consistent underwriting standards
  • Enable portfolio-level decision making
  • Improve speed and clarity of transactions

Contact

Let’s talk about your pipeline,
underwriting, or deal flow

Whether you're screening opportunities or packaging sites, we’ll show you how Data Shark fits into your workflow and where it creates leverage.

Availability Demos available weekly