Hex grid layer · Site Intelligence
Site suitability score, hex by hex across the West
Every layer above, resolved to one scored hex you can rank and defend.
Every hex carries a site suitability score composited from land access, transmission proximity, fiber, water infrastructure and environmental constraint — and every score opens into its own breakdown. A number you cannot take apart is a number you cannot defend to a committee.
- Source
- SubSurface Intel
- Refresh
- Continuously, on demand per point or bounding box
- Geometry
- Hex grid
- Included from
- Complete ($499/mo)
Why Site Score Grid matters
Site selection is a multi-constraint search that humans are bad at running at scale. Scoring every hex turns a months-long shortlist exercise into a filter, and the dimension breakdown means the result survives a hostile question from an investment committee — which a black-box score never does.
Questions Site Score Grid answers
- Where are the ten best-scoring cells in this county for a large load?
- Why did this parcel score lower than the one next to it?
- Which sites clear power and fiber but fail on water?
- Can I rank a thousand candidate locations without visiting any of them?
What is in the Site Score Grid data
Coverage: Anywhere in the 17-state footprint, at multiple H3 resolutions. Source dataset: Composite scoring over all licensed layers.
| Field | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Composite score | Suitability score for the cell across all scored dimensions. |
| Dimension breakdown | Separate power, fiber, water and environmental components, so a score can be interrogated rather than trusted. |
| AI site read | A written explanation of what drove the score at this specific cell. |
| Nearest-asset distances | Measured distance to substation, transmission, fiber, water right and constraint boundaries. |
How we serve Site Score Grid
Scores are computed over the H3 grid with a land mask so water bodies are excluded rather than scored zero, persisted for reuse, and served through read-through functions with the write path locked down. The score requires the Complete plan by design: selling a composite of four datasets to someone who can only see one would be selling a number they cannot check.
Site suitability score — source, refresh and coverage
- Steward
- SubSurface Intel
- Dataset
- Composite scoring over all licensed layers
- Refresh cadence
- Continuously, on demand per point or bounding box
- Coverage
- Anywhere in the 17-state footprint, at multiple H3 resolutions
- Records
- 19,478 rows
- Geometry
- Hex grid
- Included from
- Complete ($499/mo/mo)
Who uses Site Score Grid
Data Centers & AI Infrastructure
Power, water, fiber and permitting risk for every candidate site — before you send anyone to look at it.
Industrial & Manufacturing Siting
The same constraint stack as a data center, weighted for process load instead of compute.
Energy Development
Route corridors, site generation, and clear the environmental picture before the first landowner call.
Water Rights Investing
Price seniority, spot the mismatch between paper water and wet water, and find positions before they are listed.
Read Site Score Grid alongside
Transmission Lines
High-voltage routes — the constraint that decides most data-center sites.
Substations
Where you can actually connect — with max voltage on every point.
Fiber Availability
Provider count and top speed by area — is this site connected or stranded?
Water Rights
2.1M+ adjudicated water rights across 17 western states, on one map.
Critical Habitat
USFWS designated habitat — the fastest way to lose two years of schedule.
Terms used on this page
See Site Score Grid on the map
This layer is included from Complete ($499/mo) upward, alongside every other layer in the Complete coverage.