Urban real estate is hotly contested, and the opaque, fragmented processes for projecting future land use changes or anticipating multi-stakeholder objections force data center developers into a risky guessing game.

Investors must choose between moving quickly and risking backlash or moving slowly and losing to competitors.

Planners, meanwhile, are caught in cross-currents of economic development and societal needs.

These underlying tensions ripple throughout the value chain, undermining timely delivery and market impact of digital infrastructure projects.

There is a lack of integrated, predictive tools capable of identifying and quantifying future land use conflicts at the pre-investment stage, due partly to disconnected municipal data silos, opaque community sentiment, and unpredictable regulatory changes.

Traditional due diligence focuses on the present, not on forecasting complex, dynamic urban evolutions.