Retro-Score Report

Sites That Died Late. Here's What Day One Looked Like.

We retro-scored 8 publicly documented failed and contested data-center projects — blocked, withdrawn, rejected, or sued into a standstill — at the coordinates their developers committed to. The signals were already there.

5 of 8 flagged on day one

Five of the eight projects scored at or below the viability screen threshold (50) on day one — flagging elevated risk before a single hearing was held.

$100M+ in litigation

Just one of these sitings triggered a federal suit over a county moratorium — a dispute a day-one scan would have priced in.

Water stress was visible early

Two sites sat in high or extreme water-stress basins — the exact signal that later dominated public hearings.

Scores use today's model (site-viability formula v6.0.0, higher score = better site) at each project's day-one location, with land-acquisition and announcement-date context. Project names, per-dimension breakdowns, and full citations are in the downloadable report.