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Data Centers

core data center development platform

1. Land Control, Due Diligence and Closing Support

We help move properties from initial opportunity through a closable transaction, including:

  • Property acquisition and contract-assignment strategy

  • Title, escrow and closing coordination

  • Easements and rights-of-way

  • Boundary, ALTA and topographic survey coordination

  • Data-room and due-diligence management

  • Closing schedules, responsibility trackers and document collection

  • Identification of access, infrastructure and easement issues that could affect closing

3. Zoning, Ordinances and Government Approvals

This is one of our strongest differentiators and should be presented as a separate service category:

  • Zoning and entitlement strategy

  • Data center overlay districts

  • Data center and water-use ordinances

  • Moratorium exemptions and releases

  • Development agreements and memoranda of understanding

  • City council, county commission and public-hearing support

  • State and local agency coordination

  • Political, community and stakeholder support

5. Water, Wastewater and Cooling Infrastructure

Water should be presented as its own service line because it is becoming an increasingly important development and political issue for data centers. Our services include:

  • Water-source and capacity analysis

  • Water and wastewater utility coordination

  • Cooling-water requirement analysis

  • Low-water and closed-loop cooling strategies

  • Treatment and discharge requirements

  • Waterline and pumping infrastructure

  • Water-use ordinance support

  • Stormwater, drainage and flood-risk coordination

7. Incentives, Economic Impact and Funding Strategy

Our services include:

  • State and local incentive identification

  • Tax-revenue and economic-impact analysis

  • Economic-development agency engagement

  • Grant and public-funding strategy

  • Community investment planning

  • Public-private partnership development

  • Support for financing and investor presentations

This work helps elected officials and community leaders understand the economic benefits of supporting a project.

9. Project Governance and Owner’s-Representative Support

Our team frequently functions as the development coordinator or owner’s representative, providing:

  • RACI and responsibility matrices

  • Vendor and consultant coordination

  • Closing and milestone trackers

  • Schedule management

  • Risk and issue escalation

  • Decision memoranda

  • Executive reporting

  • Coordination among utilities, engineers, attorneys, environmental firms, government officials, contractors and developers

2. Grid Interconnection and Complete Power Strategy

Our work extends well beyond introducing clients to utilities. Our services include:

  • Utility load requests and load studies

  • Letter of Authorization and Energy Service Agreement negotiation support

  • Interconnection strategy

  • Transmission and substation coordination

  • Tariff, rate and collateral analysis

  • Phased energization planning

  • Engagement with investor-owned utilities, electric cooperatives, regional transmission organizations and independent system operators

  • Grid, behind-the-meter and hybrid power planning

  • Backup power, battery energy storage and resiliency planning

  • Turbine, generator, transformer and other long-lead equipment sourcing

4. Brownfield Redevelopment and Environmental Risk Management

Our environmental services include:

  • Phase I and Phase II environmental coordination

  • Property Management Plans

  • Brownfield and innocent-buyer programs

  • Environmental covenant review

  • Remediation planning

  • Environmental-agency coordination

  • No-further-action strategy

  • Evaluation of environmental conditions affecting campus design, development and closing

6. Transportation, Logistics and Site Infrastructure

We also evaluate and coordinate infrastructure beyond power, water and fiber, including:

  • Road and construction access

  • Rail and transload access

  • Barge and river access

  • Easements and infrastructure corridors

  • Construction laydown areas

  • Existing industrial infrastructure

  • Floodplain, drainage and waterway issues

  • Campus access and employee transportation

8. Workforce and Community Development

This should be a major website category because it separates Gateway from traditional site-selection and development consultants. Our services include:

  • Data center workforce-demand mapping

  • Skilled-trades workforce pipelines

  • CareerStart AI deployment

  • Community-college and high-school partnerships

  • Career and technical education and dual-credit pathways

  • Pre-apprenticeships and registered apprenticeships

  • Veteran and underemployed-worker recruitment

  • Local contractor and supplier development

  • Workforce outcome tracking

  • Community-benefit planning

CareerStart AI can serve as the workforce platform connecting data center employers, skilled trades, students, workers, schools and training organizations.

10. Tenant, Investor and Commercialization Support

We also assist clients with the commercial development of their projects, including:

  • Hyperscaler and tenant introductions

  • Site and power marketing

  • Letters of intent and tenant-demand validation

  • Investor presentations

  • Capital-partner coordination

  • Development budgets and commercial milestones

  • Expansion rights and phased campus strategy