Data Center Development Services

Data Center Development Services

Data center developers and associated power generators are under intense pressure to build quickly for a number of strategic, financial, and

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competitive reasons including: • Speed-to-market advantage in a rapidly growing market • Escalating demand for AI and Cloud services • Tenant demand and pre-leasing commitments • Investor expectations • Utility and grid constraints • Competitive land and fiber access • Regulatory and incentive windows • Client migration timelines We understand these drive your need to have engineering consultants who serve as your trusted partner to analyze project alternatives and move projects forward quickly and effectively.

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Air Quality

Who we are

Ecological Services

Survey / Geospatial

Civil Engineering

Environmental Engineering & Sciences

Waste Management

Cultural Resources

Manufacturing Infrastructure Services

Water Resources

CEC is an engineering and environmental consulting firm with more than 1,500 team members in offices nationwide.

We understand the challenges behind data center site selection and design – including power, water, cooling, and permitting regulations – and we provide a range of support services from conceptual and master planning through facility operation.

Where we are

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How we serve you

Prepurchase Agreement Services

Critical Issues Analysis

Field Investigation Services

Design & Permitting

ConstructionPhase Services

Prepurchase Agreement Services CEC helps business, legal, investment, and financial stakeholder clients identify, quantify, and resolve complex environmental compliance and liability issues, as well as review and quantify facility asset capital and operation & maintenance obligations to protect value. CEC provides services during the business investment cycle with due diligence tailored to meet individual stakeholder needs while assessing opportunities to acquire assets and provide engineering and compliance services. These services may include: • Assessment of Environmental Liabilities assess fair market value assumptions for management, legal, and financial advisors to fulfill reporting obligations • Purchase Price Allocation - assess fair market value of environmental liabilities and asset retirement obligations before a transaction to assess value assumptions

Critical Issues Analysis Before you negotiate a project site with the landowner, CEC taps its vast network of knowledge, data, and contacts to provide early-stage project development services to help you qualify and compare prospective sites. Key services include a feasibility and fatal flaw desktop analysis of the following areas, which could potentially limit development: • Wetlands and Floodplains

• Topography

• Threatened and Endangered Species

• Utility Load/Water Evaluation

• Preliminary Cultural Resources • Environmental Conditions (Phase I ESA) • State/Local Land Ordinances and Zoning

• Sight Distances

• Permitting Requirements • Brownfields, Mine Lands, Landfills, and other NonGreenfields • Geohazards

Field Investigation Services CEC also offers several field investigation services that provide you with boots-ontheground information you can use for planning purposes.

• Streams & Wetlands (including delineations) • Threatened & Endangered Species Surveys • Cultural Resources • Environmental Conditions (Phase I/II ESA) • Geospatial Conditions (Topographic, ALTA, Subsurface Utility, and Boundary Surveys) • Property Condition Assessments (including structural and foundations assessments to support data center loading) • Geotechnical Conditions

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Design & Permitting Challenges associated with local ordinances, state and federal regulations, community concerns, and design constraints have the potential to impact data center development projects. CEC works with stakeholders to help you develop and navigate productive strategies. CEC provides the following services to help streamline the design and permitting process.

• Civil Engineering • Environmental Permitting • Air Quality Permitting • Water Management Planning • Geotechnical Engineering • Land Use Permitting and Variances • Erosion and Sediment Control • Stormwater Management • Landscape Architecture and Visual Screening • Public/Community Outreach

Construction-Phase Services CEC understands that the success of a data center development project hinges on maintaining schedule, efficiency, and cost control during the late stages of a project.

From bidding to project closeout, CEC helps you maximize project return on investment with construction-phase services such as: • Management Support • Details and Bid Specifications • Inspection, Oversight, and Monitoring • Materials Testing and Oversight • As-built Surveys • Environmental Remediation

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Data Center Complex Preliminary Design Services

Coal-Fired Power Plant Conversion

Data Center & AI Hyper-Scaling Facility Site Selection & Design

200-MW Data Center Site Development

Carbon Node East Development

Confidential Client

Allegheny DC Property Co.

Confidential Client

Western PA

Springdale, PA

Northeast PA

CEC is involved in the planning stages of converting a former coalfired power plant to a natural gas-fueled power plant to support a 185-acre data center development.

CEC evaluated potential environmental liabilities associated with redeveloping a former coal-fired power plant. This included assessing fair market values for advisory services and estimating asset‑retirement obligations prior to the transaction. CEC is now preparing a preliminary site design for county land development approval.

CEC has been working on the adjacent power station and coordinating with a national architectural firm that specializes in data center design to mitigate site constraints and optimize the existing infrastructure. CEC will develop a full set of design documents for submission to regulatory agencies.

Carbon County, PA CEC has completed preliminary design and is now providing final design services associated with a 300-MW data center complex. The project includes land surveying, site work, grading, drainage, postconstruction stormwater management, threatened & endangered species, and Chapter 105 permitting.

Mike Archer, P.E.

Corporate Data Centers Lead marcher@cecinc.com 412.249.2337

Subject matter experts

Rob Dlugos

Chief Technical Officer rdlugos@cecinc.com 724.387.6318

Mary Guinee

Strategic Development Officer mguinee@cecinc.com 412.249.3157

Laura Wible, P.E.

Corporate Power for Data Centers Lead lwible@cecinc.com 412.249.3139

Amanda Black

Corporate Power Market Group Lead ablack@cecinc.com 724.387.6350

Kristen Weis

Project Manager I kweis@cecinc.com 412.249.2343

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