Who we serve
Data Center Developers
Navigate data center permitting with confidence. Clara analyzes zoning requirements and local sentiment to help you identify the best sites and avoid costly delays.
Common Challenges
Data center projects often encounter delays or obstacles due to:
- Outdated, ambiguous zoning codes that do not explicitly permit data centers
- Power capacity constraints and complex utility coordination
- Water usage restrictions
- Moratoria and growth restrictions specific to data centers
- Community concerns about energy use, water, noise, or visual impact
What Clara Analyzes
- State, county, and city land use plans and zoning codes
- Definitions and use tables covering data centers, technology campuses and industrial facilities
- Conditional use, special permit and rezoning pathways
- Prior data center and large industrial project applications, including staff reports, conditions, and written findings
- AHJ responses to previous high water-use projects
- Moratoria, interim control ordinances and approval or denial precedents
- Voting histories of planning commissioners and council members on large commercial and infrastructure projects
- Public comments, resident petitions and local press coverage related to data centers and similar developments
Case study
100 MW Data Center Campus, Texas
Evaluated five sites for a data center campus with co-located energy and storage.
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