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Land, Permitting, and Environmental

Seismic risk

Seismic risk is earthquake-related hazard and vulnerability for a site. It affects structural design, equipment anchoring, uptime planning, insurance, and regional resilience assumptions.

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ALTA survey

ALTA survey is a detailed land survey prepared to American Land Title Association standards for commercial real estate transactions. It helps identify boundaries, easements, encroachments, access, utilities, improvements, and title issues that can affect data center development.

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Bulk electric system

Bulk electric system generally refers to transmission elements and connected real/reactive power resources at defined voltage and configuration thresholds, excluding local distribution. Whether an asset is BES-relevant can affect reliability standards, studies, and operating requirements.

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Colocation

Colocation is a model where customers deploy IT equipment in a third-party data center rather than owning the entire facility. The provider supplies space, power, cooling, security, connectivity, and operating services under commercial agreements.

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