Proximity Compute Scout answers it with evidence a buyer can check — ranked markets where demand is real, the network can carry it, the power story holds, and the county still says yes. Every figure cited. Every claim dated and linked. Every release signed by a person.
Every dataset feeds exactly one leg — if two legs shared a source, "convergence" would be the same fact counted twice. Leg independence is checked on every scoring run, and a violation blocks release. Not advisory. Blocking.
Latency-sensitive activity density: federal jobs data at block grain, industry mix by NAICS, population and growth, named anchor institutions.
Dated, quoted, linked evidence of acceleration — expansions, announcements, RFPs. A claim that can't be dated and re-fetched on its own page is discarded before scoring, and we count the discards.
Interconnection nodes, fiber depth, transmission headroom, named serving utilities from their own federal filings — and the Compute Gap Ratio: demand per unit of existing capacity. White space is the product.
Moratoria, blocked projects, incentive posture — a multiplier on the whole score, shown as its own dial. A county under moratorium can't rank high no matter how loud the demand, because that's how a developer experiences reality. Friction facts never hide inside an evidence leg, and they don't expire until repealed.
This is a live line from the report format. Every figure carries a nine-field provenance record — dataset, vintage, pull timestamp, grain, confidence tier, and two ways to verify it yourself: a human path you can click, and the exact programmatic endpoint.
Most market intelligence asks for your trust. Ours ships with the tools to check it — because the instrument that finds your next market should be held to the same standard as the interconnection study that follows it.
Dataset, exact vintage, pull date, how-to-verify — per figure. Find one you can't reconstruct and the scan is free.
Momentum evidence comes from dated sources with links verified to render — our own checker re-fetches every page and finds the quoted sentence on it. Failures are discarded and counted.
Thin public momentum is labeled exactly that — badged, capped, never dressed up. An absent source is a named gap, not a guess.
A geometric mean of three independently-sourced legs times a visible friction dial. The Gap Ratio formula is versioned and printed in your appendix.
Every report states how far the weights must move to change the #1. Near-ties are called near-ties, not verdicts.
Nothing auto-sends. An analyst reviews each report, approves it personally, and the release is recorded in a ledger.
If a source goes down, your report says which one and when — and the credit comes back. It never renders as a fact about your market.
Backtests against known outcomes, leg-independence checks on every run, a data-freshness board — inspectable by founding clients on request.
Interconnection queue position is unpublished nationwide. We report queue activity where public — never a project's own position.
Friction signals are news- and legislation-based by nature. They're tiered, dated, and linked — and the report says so plainly.
Demand is a proxy stack, not a signed customer. The scan finds where the signals converge; your BD team still sells the capacity. Screen, don't decide.
We name the serving utility from its own federal filing and hand you the call list. The utility's load letter remains the definitive step — exactly as our reports state.
PCS launches invite-gated. Founding members get priority scan slots, founding terms, dossier credits on their shortlisted parcels — and standing access to the instrument's health record. In exchange, we want your hardest market question.