Your data center program runs on approvals and power. Put both on one schedule.
For ministries, investment agencies and state-backed developers. PowerPMIS maps every permit, license, registration and utility step a data center must clear in your country into one register, with its legal source, the authority that owns it, its sequence and its typical duration. Then it tracks every site in your program against that path.
National AI and data center programs, investment promotion, state-backed campus developers.Capital is not the constraint. The approval chain is.
Many authorities, no single path
A data center answers to the planning authority, the building and fire authorities, the environmental regulator, the utility, the telecom or digital regulator and the investment agency. Each publishes its own rules. Nobody publishes the sequence, so every investor rediscovers it, and every site waits on the slowest step.
Power decides the date
Grid connection, substations and generation are the longest items on the path. A program that tracks construction but not the utility steps will report sites as on schedule until the day they are not.
Cost figures that do not hold up
Early estimates for very large campuses are often single numbers with no stated basis. A program needs a defensible range per site, tied to evidence and updated as budgets come in.
Incentives come with obligations
Tax and land incentives carry conditions: local capacity, research spend, timelines. Someone has to track who committed to what, by when, and whether it happened.
What we deliver
Every authority, permit, license, registration and utility step for a data center, with source clause, sequence, typical duration and required documents. Delivered as a register, a PDF and a public web page you can host for investors.
The register, approval critical path and power tracker for every site in your program. A weekly portfolio report shows what blocks each site and which authority is the bottleneck.
An independent early-stage estimate and duration benchmark for a proposed site, built from public evidence and your program's own budgets, with the basis shown for every figure.
What every engagement includes
- Every requirement cited to the regulation, circular or utility rule it comes from
- The approval chain as a schedule, merged with each site's construction programme (Primavera P6 or MS Project)
- Duplicate and conflicting requirements across authorities, listed for consolidation
- Utility and interconnection steps tracked as their own critical path
- Unlimited users across ministries, developers, consultants and contractors
Fees are fixed per engagement and quoted after a scoping call. Agency filing fees are pass-through.
Request a program briefingBuilt on a working product
PowerPMIS already covers data center approvals in nine US jurisdictions, with 54 authorities and 405 requirement classes drawn from public sources. For a new country, we research the published regulations, load its authorities and requirement classes into the same structure, and cite every item. Your guide and your register are the same data, so the guide never drifts from what the program tracks.
Cost estimates follow the ASTM E2516 estimate classes and the UniFormat element structure, from public cost data and, where you provide them, your program's own past budgets.
Your data stays where you need it
PowerPMIS runs on standard PostgreSQL and can be deployed on infrastructure you control, inside your country, so program data never leaves your jurisdiction. Access is limited to the people you name.
Delivery is in English. Guides for publication can be produced in other languages through professional translation.
Request a program briefing
Tell us the country, the program and how many sites it covers. We will come back with what a Permit Path Guide would contain for your country and how long it takes to build.
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