For whom
One question, asked six different ways.
A regulator calls it a filing. An investor calls it diligence. A journalist calls it a citation. Underneath, everyone is asking the same thing: is this data center real, or is it phantom? LOADSTAR answers that question for each of them — same evidence, same methodology, read through the angle that matters to their decision.
You need a defensible cut for a filing.
Every score in LOADSTAR links to an official source, is sealed by hash, and can be recomputed by anyone — including the parties in your docket. That's the standard a citation in an order needs to survive scrutiny. In June 2026, FERC 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 measures. We didn't cause that order; we started measuring the same problem before it had a name.
You need to know which queue requests are real before you spend capex.
Interconnection queues run inflated by duplicate filings and speculative requests — in ERCOT alone, the queue asks for 410 GW against a system peak of around 85 GW. LOADSTAR cross-references independent signals — permits, energy contracts, hiring, federal registration — to flag which requests have real corroboration and which look like duplicates of the same project under different filings, before you commit capital to infrastructure a project may never need.
You need to know if the demand behind an asset is real before allocating capital.
Nationally, interconnection requests run five to ten times what actually gets built, so announced demand and built demand are rarely the same number. The regional Compute Formation Index reads that gap today — how much of what's been announced in a market has independent corroboration versus how much is still just a filing — as a descriptive measure of present conditions, with a validated predictive track record closing around December 2026. What you get before committing capital: a corroboration signal on the demand behind a specific market, sourced and dated.
You need to know which regions have real buildout underway.
A site-selection commitment puts real capital behind a bet on a specific market — usually based on the same public announcements anyone else can read. The regional score cross-references that announced pipeline against independent signals — permits, energy contracts, hiring — to separate corroborated construction from filings that are still speculative; it's descriptive of today's market, with a validated predictive track record arriving around December 2026. What you get before you commit: evidence, sourced and dated, to check against your own thesis.
You need to see where competitors are really building — and where they're only announcing.
Buildout planning means reading what competitors are actually building, not just what they've announced — interconnection requests nationally run five to ten times what gets built, and the gap is no different for any single company's queue entries. LOADSTAR reads the queue at a granular level and cross-references it against independent signals — permits, energy contracts, federal registration — to separate corroborated buildout from filings that never move; it's a signal, not a verdict on any one competitor's plans. What you get: granular corroboration data, by region and by queue entry, sourced and dated, as input to your own buildout planning.
You need a sourced, dated figure you can cite.
The public reality index and the methodology behind it are free to cite: every score links to an official source, is sealed by hash and dated, and can be recomputed by anyone — including you, before you publish it. We're not asking you to buy anything. We're giving you a number you don't have to take our word for.