For modular compute and powered-site developers

Data-center power capacity assessment for a proposed load.

Headroom checks a proposed additional flexible data-center load against supplied power, battery, fuel and cooling records over a defined period. Get a written finding on what the evidence supports, which evaluated constraint binds and which records remain unresolved before the next diligence decision.

Where Headroom fits in power due diligence.

Headroom evaluates a supplied proposal and stated period using authorized records. It reports the applicable power, resource and cooling findings, limits, margins and evidence gaps.

Utility feasibility and interconnection studies address supply availability, network upgrades and connection arrangements. Headroom does not replace those studies, certify available capacity or provide external engineering approval. Your site engineer confirms the applicable records, boundaries and assumptions.

Start with a no-charge fit discussion using high-level information. The assessment itself is paid, scoped and quoted in writing before work begins; fees are for the assessment, never a favorable finding.

Diligence is expensive. Most of it goes to sites that were never going to work.

A connection rating or spare-power figure is a starting point. Existing demand, protected reserves, battery duration, generator fuel and cooling decide what an added load can actually use. Those details usually surface after engineering time, partner calls and term sheets.

Headroom puts them up front. Your team sees the binding constraint and the evidence gap for each site, before the next diligence step.

Screen the pipeline.

Run the same supported question across your candidate sites. For each one, Headroom reports:

  • The result on the records supplied: Supported, Not supported, Unknown or Not evaluated
  • The constraint that binds first: power, battery energy, fuel or cooling
  • The records that are missing, stale or in conflict
  • The next record or engineering confirmation that would change the answer

Within each group of comparable sites, candidates are ordered by proposed next action: advance, obtain more data, or reject for now. Sites evaluated under different methods are not ranked against each other, and every recommendation stays pending until your reviewer signs off.

Start with one site and one decision.

Pick a site and the load you want to add, over a defined period. With written permission to use the records, an analyst maps your exports and your engineer confirms meter boundaries, timing, limits and assumptions. You receive:

  • A written finding: Supported, Not supported, Unknown or Not evaluated, and why
  • The basis: limits, margins, source references and assumptions
  • Next actions: what to verify, reconcile or revise before you commit

The First Site Evaluation requires suitable records and an agreed scope. You receive the written finding within five business days after scope is agreed and the required records are confirmed.

When records are stale or conflict, Headroom doesn't fill the gap.

Missing intervals, mismatched meters and unsupported ratings are not averaged away or discounted. Without the evidence, the result is Unknown, with the records to reconcile named. An unknown result means the evidence is not there yet; it is not a finding of zero capacity.

See a missing-evidence example

Two power methods, plus cooling.

  • Grid, battery and diesel: one grid connection, one battery and one already-running diesel generator, checked for power, stored energy and fuel over the period. Excludes refueling, startup, islanding, multiple batteries or generators, and dispatch optimization.
  • Grid and natural gas: one grid connection and one already-running gas engine or turbine, checked against documented operating points and gas supply. Excludes gas plus battery, multiple units, startup and islanding.
  • Cooling: air, single-phase liquid or mixed cooling, reported as a separate finding alongside a compatible power evaluation. A cooling result alone does not support a proposal.
Method boundaries

The review covers additional flexible load. It is not a firm GPU commitment, capacity certification or revenue guarantee.

Read-only from the first conversation.

  • No equipment access or control credentials
  • Start with the question, not the records; nothing sensitive is needed to begin
  • Records are shared only after scope, permitted use, recipients and handling are agreed in writing
  • Exported files only; no portal, no live connection to your systems
Records checklist

How pricing works

Pipeline Screens are priced per portfolio. A First Site Evaluation is priced per site, based on scope, complexity and the proposed load. Ongoing quarterly reporting is available by annual agreement. Every engagement is quoted in writing before work begins. Fees are for the assessment, never for a favorable result.

Bring one site question.

Tell us the site, the load you want to add and the period that matters. We will confirm fit and scope before any records change hands.

Request a First Site Evaluation

Read-only and export-based. A finding tests a supplied proposal over a stated period. No maximum-MW, safe shorter duration, repeat-cycle, firm-capacity or revenue guarantee is implied. Our capacity examples use synthetic inputs. Separate benchmarks check the processing of published Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF) measurements from the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR), formerly the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), including mapping, accounting and reported thermal arithmetic. These checks do not establish available site capacity. Customer validation and external engineering review remain outstanding. Methods and verification