Kortex · the data-centre siting frontier · live from the graph

BETAevidence: transformed (facility-ecosystem proxy, disclosed)

Power and digital infrastructure rarely agree

The cheapest, cleanest power zone is not necessarily a viable digital-infrastructure zone. A data centre needs power, interconnection, cooling water and a peering ecosystem at the same coordinates; and those maps disagree. Every market zone below is plotted by its power economics against its digital reality.

The frontier

x = zone wholesale price (log) · y = peering/data-centre facilities in zone (log; zero-facility zones sit on the floor) · bubble = clean-firm MW · colour = water stress (teal low → red high) · click a bubble

water stress < 2 2–4 ≥ 4 or unresolved quadrant labels are editorial, the data is not

Cheap clean power, no ecosystem: the frontier zones

zones with ≥2 GW clean-firm and wholesale under $60/MWh, ranked by price · distance is from the zone's interior point to the nearest facility anywhere (large zones: the interior is where the cheap land and power are)

Zone	Wholesale $/MWh	Clean-firm MW	EHV subs	Facilities in zone	Nearest facility km	Water stress

Run the full siting screen A clean year can have borrowed hours

Method & receipt. Power side uses the siting screen's definitions: clean-firm = dispatchable low-carbon (hydro/nuclear/geothermal/biomass; wind and solar never counted firm), canonical operational units; EHV = ≥275 kV substations from real topology; wholesale from the zone price rebuild with its evidence basis on-row (imputed prices are marked in the tooltip). Digital side uses cleared sources only. PeeringDB facilities (CC BY-SA) plus curated hyperscaler sites, and OSM telecom sites; no under-review cable datasets contribute. This page measures the digital-facility ecosystem, peering, colocation, hyperscaler and telecom sites, not fibre itself: fibre-route diversity, carrier counts, latency and IX capacity are not modelled and this page never claims them. Nearest-facility distance from a zone's interior point is an exploratory statistic, not a siting conclusion. Water stress is the zone-mean WRI Aqueduct score; basin-level, not site-measured. GET /v2/spatial/power-fibre · sources.