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. Interconnection queues run five to ten times the capacity that ever comes online, and no authoritative source tells a regulator, an investor, or a utility whether a specific project is real or speculative before the capital moves. LOADSTAR exists to answer that one question, with evidence attached to every answer.
What we are
LOADSTAR is a reality index for AI compute infrastructure: a 0–100 score, built from public signals, that measures how much of an announced project has independent corroboration. Like the indices that track market volatility or credit risk, it doesn't forecast the future or offer a take — it measures a present condition, transparently, so the number means the same thing to whoever reads it.
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. A validated predictive track record closes around December 2026, and until then we don't sell accuracy we haven't proven. 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.