The Evidence

One real sample. Every line below is from it.

This is the actual constraint table of the sample report: a 24.7 ha industrial-zoned parcel in Laverton North, in Melbourne's west. Each row carries its own rating and a separate data status, and in the full report each becomes a section with statutory references and sources. The screen found what really shapes data centre siting in this corridor: an infrastructure easement crossing the parcel, a native grassland reserve 39 m away with the ecology and EPBC questions that follow, and the nearest dwelling close enough to make cooling-plant noise a real assessment item.

Zoning insignificant assessed · clean

Cadastral / Title & Easements moderate assessed · hit

Planning Overlays insignificant assessed · clean

Aboriginal Heritage minor assessed · hit

Historic / Federal Heritage insignificant assessed · clean

Bushfire insignificant assessed · clean

Flora & Fauna / Ecology moderate assessed · hit

EPBC / Matters of National Significance moderate assessed · hit

Hydrology / Flooding insignificant assessed · clean

Noise (residential amenity) moderate assessed · hit

Visual Amenity minor assessed · hit

Contours / Topography insignificant assessed · clean

Geotechnical minor data limited

Soils insignificant assessed · clean

Utilities (power / gas / water / NBN) insignificant assessed · hit

Traffic & Access minor data limited

Contaminated Land insignificant assessed · clean

Air Quality minor assessed · hit

Hazard & Risk (fire / explosion) minor assessed · hit

major — potential fatal flaw moderate — needs mitigation minor — readily mitigated insignificant pending — data unavailable, disclosed as such

Site and surrounds satellite exhibit with indicative footprint — Site & surrounds exhibit

Constraint context map exhibit — Constraint context exhibit

Noise receptor separation exhibit: dwellings around the site — Receptor separation exhibit

Full sample report Sample PDF

How It Works

Send a site. Get a memo back.

No software to adopt, no seats, no onboarding. It slots in front of your existing consultant workflow as an early filter.

Send one candidate site

An address, coordinates or a boundary file. That is all we need to start.

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We run the desktop screen

19 constraints against state and federal spatial data: zoning, overlays, easements, bushfire, flooding, EPBC, heritage, soils, transmission proximity and more. Ratings are weighted for a data centre; standby diesel storage and continuous cooling-plant noise are assessed as what they are, not borrowed from a power-station template.

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Memo + PDF within one business day

An overall verdict, per-constraint ratings and data status, satellite exhibits, comparable approved data centre projects, and the recommended next checks for anything a desktop screen cannot close out.

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Honest by Design

What this screen is, and what it is not.

constraints, two fields each

every constraint carries a rating AND a separate data status, so a gap in public data is disclosed as pending, never dressed up as clean

Two things we do not have, said plainly

Grid hosting capacity. The screen measures spatial proximity to transmission and distribution infrastructure from the national dataset, including lines that cross the parcel and the easement setbacks they carry. It does not know how many megawatts the network can actually deliver to the site or when: that is a connection enquiry with the network operator, and no public spatial layer answers it.

Fibre routes and latency. We hold no carrier duct or dark-fibre route data. If connectivity is on your critical path, that diligence sits outside this screen and we will not pretend otherwise.

What the screen does close out early, from public data:

Zoning and overlays: is the use even open to you here, and what schedules apply
Easements crossing the parcel: corridors that sterilise part of the buildable envelope
Ecology and EPBC: native grassland and threatened-community triggers that add seasons to a program (the sample site sits 39 m from a grassland reserve)
Heritage, flood, bushfire, soils, contamination: per-constraint, each with its own data status
Receptor separation: nearest dwellings, because cooling plant runs 24/7 and noise assessments look at every receptor in range

Coverage varies by state and the report says so per constraint: Victorian screens run with full layer coverage; in NSW the Aboriginal heritage register is access restricted and council flood mapping is partial, so those constraints are reported pending there, not assumed clear. This is a preliminary desktop screen to support early site selection; it is not planning advice, and it does not replace the specialist assessments a development application requires.

Pricing

Priced like a filter, not a study.

A consultant desktop constraints study typically runs to five figures and takes weeks. This screen exists so you only commission those for sites that survive the first cut.

Pilot

A$1,000 / site + GST

One real candidate site, any state
Full memo + PDF, satellite exhibits
Delivered within one business day
No subscription, no further commitment

10-site credit pack

A$7,500 + GST

Screen a shortlist or an acquisition pipeline
Ranked side-by-side comparison across sites
Credits valid 12 months
Priority turnaround

Constraints that cannot be assessed from public data are disclosed as pending, never padded. If the screen returns materially less than the sample report shows for your state, we will say so before you pay.

Planning red flags for data centre sites.