Sightline by Hamlet
The Data Center Index
Which communities are fighting data centers — scored from what their governments actually did, not what they said.
Two years of council-meeting transcripts plus a curated ledger of enacted denials, moratoria, and bans. Before a moratorium makes headlines, the opposition is already in the council record — documented, timestamped, and building. This page is the public preview: the map, the four bands, the ten strongest records. The rest is a 20-minute call.
- remarks opposing a named project
- 1,810
- communities scored
- 462
- markets elevated
- 45
- states with a proposed moratorium
- 11
July 2024 – July 2026 · built from the Hamlet corpus and its curated event ledgers · preview data as of 2026-07-16
One verdict per community
Each score weighs enacted restrictions most heavily, then officials on the record, public comment, and news — every layer capped, with a ceiling of 90. The caps are the thesis: volume saturates — talk alone can never score past 50, and every point above 50 requires an enacted restriction.
Murmur
60communities
index 1–4 — scattered remarks on the record
Pushback forming
96communities
index 5–14 — multiple voices, building volume
Organized
160communities
index 15–39 — officials on the record, sustained pressure
Entrenched
146communities
index 40+ — at or past the enacted-restriction line
The ten strongest records
Ranked by index. All ten are Entrenched — every one has passed a restriction: a denial, a moratorium, a ban, or a downzoning.
What the full index holds
None of this is a roadmap — it is all built. On the call we pull it up against your markets and your competitors.
The full 462-community ranking
Every scored community by name, with its index, band, and per-point ledger — plus 220 more on the record below the scoring line.
The verbatim record
7,236 transcript remarks, each read and labeled in context — most play at the cited second, the exact moment, on video.
Officials on the record
Names, roles, and what each said — elected officials and staff, separated from public commenters and weighted differently.
Company exposure
Which operators and developers draw the fire, by market — and where opposition names a project versus the asset class.
The enacted-restriction ledger
Every denial, moratorium, ban, and downzoning behind the scores — news-corroborated and linked to its source.
Every other asset class
The same index exists for housing, industrial, retail, solar, EV infrastructure, and more — the whole entitlement record, one methodology.
45 markets are elevated. Choose one — we'll walk you through it.
Tell us the market you're watching. On the call we pull up its record — where opposition is building, what was enacted, who said what — before it reaches the trade press. Then we'll talk through refining these views for your specific use case, whether you're siting, underwriting, or tracking a portfolio.
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