About
Everyone is building. Nobody is checking.
Hundreds of billions of dollars are being committed right now to announced AI data centers. Most won't get built.
That is not a guess — it is the record. Of the capacity that entered U.S. interconnection queues in 2000–2020, 13% had reached commercial operation by the end of 2025; 75% had been withdrawn (LBNL, Queued Up 2026).
And nobody referees it: no authoritative source tells a regulator, an investor, or a utility whether a specific project is real or speculative — before the capital moves, or before the cost lands on the public's power bill. LOADSTAR exists to answer that one question, with evidence attached to every answer.
What we are
LOADSTAR is the reality index for AI power: a 0–100 score, built from public signals, that measures how much of an announced project has independent corroboration — starting with the power supply behind it, the buildout's #1 bottleneck.
Like the indices that track market volatility or credit risk, it doesn't forecast and it doesn't opine. It measures a present condition, transparently, so the number means the same thing to whoever reads it.
And unlike any of them, you can watch this one build itself, live — every figure traceable to the official filing behind it.
how a filing becomes a sealed number
Why now
In June 2026, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ordered six grid operators to filter speculative large-load requests out of their interconnection queues — the first time a federal regulator formally named the problem this index was built to measure.
We didn't create that problem, and we don't take credit for the order. We started measuring it before it had a name.
What we won't do
Today, LOADSTAR covers the US at county and state level — not yet node or feeder. The score is descriptive: it measures corroboration now, not what will happen.
The first sealed calls begin resolving around December 2026 — published either way, hit or miss — and until then we don't sell accuracy we haven't earned yet. About 93% of the sources behind today's scores are news reporting, not official filings; we mark which is which on every item, always.
None of this is an apology. It's the boundary of what we can verify right now, stated plainly instead of blurred.
Mission, vision, values
Our mission: to answer, with dated and verifiable evidence, the question that moves billions — is this AI infrastructure real, or phantom?
Our vision: to be the cited index — the reference standard for AI-infrastructure reality, as inevitable as the VIX is for fear.
Five values, each enforced by the system itself rather than framed on a wall:
value 1
Radical verifiability
Every figure links to its filing and recomputes on demand — check us, don’t trust us.
value 2
Honesty before citation
A number that fails its own checks is withheld, not defended. Silence beats a wrong figure.
value 3
Non-negotiable neutrality
Nobody pays to influence a number — no sponsor, no data vendor, no exception.
value 4
Automation with human gates
The system runs itself; anything irreversible or outward-facing waits for a human.
value 5
Permanence
Sealed, dated, append-only. Corrections add to the record — they never overwrite it.
Who publishes this
LOADSTAR is published by CIIE — the Computational Infrastructure Intelligence Engine, the largely autonomous research system that collects the filings, seals the ledger and recomputes every figure on a schedule.
The index is institution-first by design: no personal brand fronts it, because the authority it is building has to live in the evidence and the method, not in a person. It is answerable all the same — write to contact@loadstar.energy and you get a written reply within 24 hours.
The index is founder-funded and pre-revenue; no data vendor, developer or utility sponsors it, and nobody pays to influence a number.
Corrections
When we get something wrong, the correction is dated, published on the affected page, and the original error is described — never silently edited away. The ledger behind the index is append-only, so a corrected number cannot overwrite the history of the wrong one.
Recent corrections are visible where they happened — the queue-transparency survey carries its own dated correction log — and the largest one we have made is documented on the governance page.
Found an error? Write to contact@loadstar.energy: corrections outrank everything else on our desk.