TierraLens for data centers
Data center siting teams
Power is the headline. Water, flood, and permit timing decide the schedule.
Hyperscaler and colo siting teams are racing power in-service dates that slip if the environmental schedule does. TierraLens plugs into your internal siting stack as an API — evaluating water availability in Central Texas, flood and cooling constraints, NYC DEP watershed vetoes, and SEQRA timelines on the same parcel in one call. Regulations come back machine-diffable, so your QBR deck can show exactly what moved quarter-over-quarter.
Why it hurts today
Water availability in Austin and Central TX
Evaporative cooling collides with the Edwards Aquifer, SOS net-zero loading, and city-level water moratoria. A 200-MW campus pencil can flip negative in a single TCEQ rule update.
Flood, cooling, and resiliency overlap
FEMA SFHA + local floodplain ordinances + chilled-water intake permits rarely sit in the same tool. Siting teams stitch them together in spreadsheets and miss the edge cases.
Permit timelines drive power in-service
A 12–24 month SEQRA Type I or a 60–120 day WPAP shifts the concrete pour, which shifts the utility interconnection, which shifts the in-service by a quarter. Environmental timing is critical-path.
Community opposition around water use
Watershed groups and local councils increasingly organize around data-center water draws. NYC DEP East-of-Hudson watershed rules can add a 60-day veto on top of state review.
Why TierraLens
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Integrates with your siting tool
The API is the product. No portal to log into, no PDF to parse. POST a polygon to /v1/screen and you get back the full regulatory surface area — Edwards overlap, NYC watershed status, TPDES applicability — as structured JSON.
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Machine-diffable regulations for QBRs
Every regulation record is versioned. /v1/regulations/TX-EAPP-WPAP returns last-modified and a diff since your last read. Build a QBR slide that shows exactly what shifted in your siting portfolio.
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Water + flood + cooling on one parcel
Request layers=['flood', 'tx-edwards', 'ny-nyc-watershed'] and get a single response with every triggered rule. No more three-consultant stitching job.
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Monitor long-horizon sites
Options on land held for multi-year buildouts need continuous regulatory watch. /v1/monitor hooks into your siting CRM and webhooks on Article 24 remapping, Edwards boundary updates, or SOS ordinance amendments.
Sample queries
3 examplescurl -X POST https://api.tierralens.co/v1/screen \
-H "Authorization: Bearer tl_live_..." \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"geometry": { "type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[...]] },
"layers": ["flood", "tx-edwards", "ny-nyc-watershed"],
"use_case": "data_center",
"include_regulations": true
}'curl -X POST https://api.tierralens.co/v1/monitor \
-H "Authorization: Bearer tl_live_..." \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"parcel_id": "ny-westchester-dc-07",
"webhook": "https://siting.example.com/tl-hook",
"events": ["regulation_change"]
}'curl "https://api.tierralens.co/v1/regulations/TX-EAPP-WPAP?since=2026-01-01" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer tl_live_..."Relevant in our launch states
Texas
- TX-EAPP-WPAPhighTexas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)Water Pollution Abatement Plan (Recharge Zone)30 TAC §213.5
- TX-SOShighCity of Austin Watershed ProtectionAustin Save Our Springs OrdinanceAustin City Code §25-8-511
- TX-TXR150000mediumTCEQ (EPA-delegated NPDES)TPDES Construction General Permit30 TAC §305 (TXR150000)
New York
Make environmental timing a first-class siting input
Get API access and plug regulatory timelines into the same tool your power and land teams use. TX and NY in-market; CA and VA on the roadmap.