The predevelopment platform
Cliffcenter turns the thousand-step predevelopment workflow — interconnection queues, incentive applications, behind-the-meter deal structuring, site intelligence, and regulatory filings — into a single operating system. Built for the operators moving 241 gigawatts through a process that was designed for a different century.
McKinsey, 2025
Wood Mackenzie, Q4 2025
LBNL, 2025
S&P Global, since 2023
The platform
Interconnection queues, incentive filings, FERC dockets, site diligence, and deal rooms — all sitting on the same regulatory graph. Every filing your project needs, every deadline the graph knows about, every artifact your team can audit.
Active interconnection
5 projects · 3 ISOs · 3,325 MW
The automation desert
Every operational system in a data center gets its own software stack — DCIM, SCADA, cooling optimization, network telemetry. A $3 trillion industry has invested almost nothing in the one phase that determines whether a project happens at all.
Pure-play operators have Radix and Ignition. Hyperscalers have proprietary operations tooling. Predevelopment — site selection, permitting, interconnection, incentives, deal structuring — is still coordinated by email, law firms billing $1,500 an hour, and government portals that have not been updated in a decade.
Compass Datacenters’ CEO put it directly: “Even after a site is acquired, companies face a new set of challenges when they have to navigate the often byzantine permitting process with local authorities.” Compass responded by land-banking — not by automating anything. Nobody has.
Built for
Every persona page is an honest map of the pain points, the solutions this segment tends to buy first, and the first concrete next step. Pick the segment closest to you and we'll show you where to start.
Crypto-to-AI converters, regional colos, coal rebuilders, enterprise builders, and tribal developers — the 'next 200' moving 241 gigawatts without a twenty-person government affairs team.
Read the AI-era developers brief →ForConstellation, Vistra, Talen, NextEra, and the regulatory teams structuring behind-the-meter deals under the FERC December 2025 framework.
Read the Power companies brief →ForBlackstone, KKR, Apollo, Brookfield, and the capital markets advisors running diligence on 40 projects a month who need a standardized regulatory package.
Read the Infrastructure funds brief →Solutions
Each solution ships independently, integrates with the next, and is built on the same shared regulatory graph. Start with one; expand when the value compounds.
Survive the 2,600 GW backlog.
Model substation headroom, pre-file study requests, and see your queue position change as upgrades land — before consultants can deliver a spreadsheet.
Capture every dollar you're owed.
$3–4 billion in annual data center incentives sit behind fragmented forms, rolling deadlines, and multi-year compliance schedules. We turn that into a calendar and a dashboard.
Structure deals in months, not 18.
The FERC December 2025 order rewrote the rules of co-location. Every existing BTM arrangement — 46 data centers, 56 GW combined — has to re-file. Every new one lands in rules PJM is still writing. We track the rules.
Find the next Homer City before anyone else.
A geospatial index of BTM-viable properties: retiring coal plants, industrial parks with stranded capacity, brownfield sites with existing heavy-industrial zoning, and decommissioning nuclear assets.
Consulting on the clock of software.
An AI-augmented predevelopment team that delivers site evaluation, permitting strategy, interconnection analysis, and regulatory compliance at 50–70% of traditional consulting fees.
Currently tracking
The regulatory graph isn't a marketing slogan — it's a live data structure we maintain. Here are the filings active this week. Our customers see updates within 24 hours of every new ruling.
Live dockets · updated hourly
Why now
FERC’s December 2025 co-location order forces PJM to file three new transmission service options by February 2026, with eleven open questions and a transition period running through 2028. ERCOT contracted McKinsey to redesign large-load interconnection. Texas SB 6 rulemaking is due by December 2026. Dominion proposed a formal queue process under SCC direction. Every month, the rules change — and every month, operators pay consultants to re-read them.
Software that treats the regulatory graph as a living object has a structural advantage over in-house teams managing the graph in PDFs.
Data Center Watch
ERCOT filing, Feb 2026
PUCO, Feb 2026
EL25-49 dockets
“GPUs sit idle because the company lacks the electricity to install them.”
“We have outgrown the process that was established for reviewing these large loads.”
Predevelopment, reset
Book a 30-minute walkthrough. Bring a live project, a delayed project, or a thesis — we will pressure-test the predevelopment workflow with you.