Data Center Site Selection Companies

The main types

Data and software platforms. Your team logs in and runs its own search across land, grid and market data.
Parcel data providers. They supply property boundaries and attributes that feed your own maps and models.
Diligence tools. They help assess a site you already have, often for environmental and permitting questions.
Capacity matching. They find space in data centers that already exist.
Brokerages and consultancies. They advise you and help close a transaction.
Done-for-you siting services. You state requirements. They return a shortlist of sites. Voltane is in this group.

Companies in each group, in their own words

According to its website (checked November 2026), these companies describe themselves as follows. This is not a ranking, and the list is not complete.

Company	How its site describes it	Compare
LandGate	Data solutions for data center, energy and infrastructure developers	Voltane vs LandGate
Paces	Helps energy infrastructure teams find viable sites, with software, reports and services	Voltane vs Paces
PVcase Prospect	Software for early-stage renewable development	Voltane vs PVcase Prospect
Orennia	Energy intelligence platform with data, analytics and research	Voltane vs Orennia
Regrid	Standardized parcel data	Voltane vs Regrid
Transect	Site assessment with environmental, permitting and community data	Voltane vs Transect
Ardus	Powered data center capacity from 1 MW to 10 MW	Voltane vs Ardus
Brokerages and consultancies	A category. Terms vary by firm	Voltane vs brokerages

How to choose

Decide who does the work. If you have analysts and a steady pipeline, tools you run yourself can pay off. If you have one requirement and little time, a service may be simpler.
Match the question. Power access, environmental review, parcel ownership and deal support are different jobs. Few companies do all of them.
Check coverage. Confirm the regions and grid operators a company covers before you start.
Ask what the evidence is. For any claim about power, ask for the source, the date and whether it is a fact or an estimate.

Where Voltane fits

Voltane is a siting service for projects that need a lot of power. You tell Voltane what you need: megawatts, target energization year, region and acreage. Voltane then finds candidate sites in Texas, with a focus on ERCOT, reports on each one and returns a priced shortlist. It starts with a request form and a booked call. See Find me a site.

Behind the service is Voltane's own Texas map engine, built from public data. It reads land for distance to transmission lines and substations, interconnection queue activity, flood zones, wetlands, protected land, gas pipelines and more. Every fact carries its source and date. Every estimate is labelled as an estimate, with its range and its method. The engine is an internal tool, not a public product. Voltane shows the evidence the engine produced for each site in the report.

Some limits, stated plainly. Voltane's capacity signal is a proxy built from distance to transmission and queue competition. It is never available MW at a substation. Voltane does not publish landowner names. Its results are screening only, not a site suitability determination. A second service, Analyze my site, for a site you already have in the contiguous United States, is available by request; online ordering is not open yet.

Product details change. Check each company's own site before deciding. All trademarks belong to their owners.

Questions people ask

What does a data center site selection company do?

It depends on the type. Some provide data or software, some assess sites you already have, some broker deals and some run the whole search and return a shortlist.

Which type should I pick?

Start with who will do the work. Teams with in-house analysts often choose software or data. Teams that want an answer for one requirement often choose a service or an advisor.

Where does Voltane fit?

Voltane is a done-for-you siting service for Texas, with a focus on ERCOT. You send requirements and get back a priced shortlist with the evidence behind each site.

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Need a site, or have one?

Tell us what you need and Voltane finds, reports on and prices candidate sites in ERCOT. Or bring a site you already have for a path-to-power report (by request for now).

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Data center site selection companies: the main types