From Raw Land to Power-Ready Infrastructure
Power-first development for the AI infrastructure era.
Prairie Signal CampusDCES identified and advanced a strategic powered land opportunity designed to support next-generation AI and data center development. Located in a high-potential energy corridor, the site was evaluated for power availability, natural gas access, transmission proximity, land control, entitlement feasibility, and long-term infrastructure scalability.
Working alongside energy providers, landowners, utilities, capital partners, and a data center development partner, DCES helped shape a path from raw acreage to an executable digital infrastructure opportunity. The project reflects DCES’ core role: aligning land, power, partners, and development strategy to accelerate speed-to-power for large-scale data center infrastructure.
This FPO project is representative of the type of complex, multi-party opportunity DCES is built to pursue — powered land with a practical route to behind-the-meter energy, scalable development, and long-term value creation. DCES’ positioning centers on strategic powered land, faster speed-to-power, and behind-the-meter natural-gas-first power solutions for AI and data center infrastructure.
Key Project Metrics
Critical infrastructure parameters secured by DCES prior to tenant commitment — the conditions that make this campus category-defining.
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1,280 acres
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600 MW initial phase / 1 GW+ long-term potential
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Sweetwater County, Wyoming
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AI, cloud, and hyperscale data center development
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Frontier Digital Infrastructure
$18M to County
Annual Tax Revenue4.2M gal/day
Water Rights Acquired340 Direct
Jobs Created (Phase I)The Opportunity →
The demand for AI infrastructure is moving faster than traditional utility timelines. DCES saw an opportunity to evaluate a large-scale Wyoming property with the right characteristics for powered land development: available acreage, energy proximity, favorable industrial siting potential, access to natural gas infrastructure, and room for phased data center growth.
Rather than treating the site as a real estate transaction alone, DCES approached the opportunity through the lens of power-first development. The key question was not simply whether the land could support a data center campus, but whether it could support a realistic path to power at the scale and speed required by next-generation digital infrastructure.
The Approach →
DCES coordinated early-stage feasibility across land, energy, infrastructure, development, and capital considerations. The team evaluated site constraints, topography, gas supply pathways, potential generation strategy, transmission context, access, permitting requirements, and development sequencing.
The project was structured around a behind-the-meter energy model designed to reduce dependence on extended grid timelines while preserving optionality for future grid integration. By aligning with a data center development partner early in the process, DCES helped ensure the land and power strategy could be shaped around real infrastructure requirements rather than abstract site potential.
The Result →
The Prairie Signal Campus concept established a framework for a phased, power-ready development opportunity with the potential to support AI and cloud infrastructure at meaningful scale. The site strategy created a clearer path for partner discussions, capital planning, engineering review, and future development milestones.
For DCES, the project represents the company’s broader value proposition: identifying strategic powered land, bringing the right parties to the table, and accelerating the path from site selection to executable infrastructure.
“DCES helps transform large-scale land opportunities into power-ready infrastructure platforms.”
— Brad Fielder, CEO of Dev Partner
Ready to move from site potential to power-ready infrastructure?
DCES works with landowners, developers, energy partners, capital providers, and data center operators to evaluate powered land opportunities and accelerate the path to speed-to-power.