CL-001 / PLACE ASSESSMENT / EVIDENCE ASSEMBLY

Northern Virginia — working assessment.

CL-001 is the first place-based pilot intended to connect compute growth with power, grid, water, lifecycle carbon, land, permitting and community evidence. No Critical Load rating is published on this working page.

Research programmes Methodology Active projects Research agenda

Status / evidence assembly

CL-001

The release gate is evidence completeness, not a launch date. Proposed scenarios for method testing are +100 MW, +500 MW and +1 GW. Results remain unpublished until place boundaries, evidence quality, uncertainty and independent review requirements are met.

Power / gridBaseline demand, supply, interconnection and reliability evidenceassembling

WaterPeak-water capacity screen + utility / watershed evidencemethod linked · evidence assembling

CarbonOperational electricity + lifecycle compute boundarymethod linked

Land / permitSite, land-use, planning and regulatory conditionsscoping

CommunityInfrastructure burden, local exposure and public-interest evidencescoping

DecisionCapacity envelope, binding limit, conditions and rejected alternativesnot issued

Method basis / water

CL-WP-004 provides the R04 screening layer for CL-001.

Its Peak Water Capacity Screen is used to structure early water-capacity questions and evidence requests. It does not issue a Northern Virginia water carrying-capacity rating; project-specific utility, hydrologic and independent-review gates remain open.

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02 / Release gates

A rating is the end of the evidence process, not the beginning.

G1Boundary lock

Grid, watershed, administrative, project and time boundaries stated.

G2Evidence lock

Sources, missing data, modelled values and uncertainty made visible.

G3Scenario test

Comparable project increments run against the same place baseline.

G4Review

Independent domain review completed before a public rating claim.