Watt Brief launches weekday public-record brief for data-center site selection

Watt Brief today launched a weekday email of public-record data-center deltas for people who place, interconnect, and build large loads.

Watt Brief is not a trade magazine and not a comps database. Each paid issue is a short set of rows keyed to real documents: interconnection and large-load queues, county permits and land-use votes, PUC and utility dockets, material 8-Ks, and related public filings. The product’s rule is simple — one fact per row, sent once, and only returned if the underlying record itself changed. Empty mornings are skipped rather than padded.

“The signal that changes a colo or hyperscale site visit usually shows up in a docket, a queue posting, or a hearing notice weeks before it is a headline. Watt Brief surfaces those moves with a source URL and the document ID the agency printed — not a recap of yesterday’s press.”

Who it is for

The reader is usually someone who books a site visit, a load study, or a diligence trip before the story is finished: colo and hyperscale site-selection business development; utility large-load teams; infrastructure private equity; and GC / MEP business development.

How it works

Issues run Monday through Friday at 06:00 America/New_York. Free readers get Friday headlines and two full archive rows a month. Paid Individual and Professional seats get the weekday issue with document IDs. A founding Individual year is available at launch, time-boxed on Pricing. Sources and identity rules are on Sources. Public explainers live on Articles.