VANCOUVER, British Columbia, October 24, 2026. New grid power takes years, existing power takes months. DataCentering.com turns existing buildings and land that already have power into data center capacity. Closed smelters, mills, printing plants and telephone exchanges were built on large grid connections that are often still in place.

In Hawesville, Kentucky, an idle aluminum smelter was leased to Anthropic in July 2026 for 401 MW over 20 years. At Lake Mariner, New York, a retired coal plant site, Fluidstack signed 200 MW for 10 years with Google standing behind the lease.

**For CEOs and business owners.** For a company with an industrial site and a big power connection, the connection may be worth more than the building. DataCentering.com gives a free Site Score on power, fibre, zoning, cooling and water, and community fit, rated separately for edge and hyperscale. If the site scores well, a Site Book or Site Launch brings it to matched data center buyers.

**For engineers, architects, contractors and suppliers.** Data center work is moving to old mills, plants and warehouses that already have power. DataCentering.com's Prospecting Desk finds the owners and developers converting those buildings in a firm's territory and makes 50 or 100 calls a month in the firm's name.

**For brokerages and agents.** Territory Signals and Brokerage Desk track the owners and developers in a territory who are turning powered buildings into data centers.

**For developers and towns.** 71% of American adults told Gallup in May 2026 that they oppose a data center in their area. A Community Risk Assessment, delivered in ten business days, maps the stakeholders and opposition risk early, so the community gets a fair deal and the project has fewer surprises at the hearing.

**For data center operators.** DataCentering.com helps data center operators sell their capacity to end users. Through its Prospecting Desk, DataCentering.com makes the calls and does the prospecting for them: https://datacentering.com/offers/prospecting-desk.php

**For First Nations.** In western Canada, the owner of the powered land and the community that decides are often the same party: a First Nation. Woodland Cree First Nation owns 51% of Mihta Askiy, a planned 650 MW data centre at an idle power plant site near Peace River, Alberta. BC Hydro's 2026 Call for Demand for data centre projects scores First Nations benefits, and Canada's Indigenous Loan Guarantee Program guarantees equity loans for Indigenous groups from 20 million to 1 billion Canadian dollars per project. DataCentering.com helps a Nation check what its land and power can support, document it in a readiness record a lender or BC Hydro can review, and plan community engagement, so the Nation leads as an owner, not a landlord.

"Much of the power that new data centers need is already wired into old mills, plants and telephone exchanges. DataCentering.com finds that power, proves it in writing and helps the town next door ask for what it wants," said a spokesperson for DataCentering.com.

The free Site Score is available at https://datacentering.com.

### About DataCentering.com

DataCentering.com, based in Vancouver, B.C., turns existing buildings and land that already have power into data center capacity. Its patent-pending method checks each site against five gates: power, permitted use, cooling and fibre, community readiness, and site control, with AI research agents gathering the evidence and people signing it.

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