# datacenter.properties - Land near gas for power and compute pads | Datacenter Properties > Own or control land near producing wells? Methane.Exchange screens it as a pad for gas-fired power and compute, and we do the land work. ## Overview & Scope - **Canonical Domain**: https://datacenter.properties/ - **Contact Email**: hello@datacenter.properties - **Phone**: (307) 263-8515 - **Privacy Policy**: https://datacenter.properties/privacy.html - **Terms of Use**: https://datacenter.properties/terms.html - **Access Policy**: Public browser calculators, checklists, and reference guides on this domain are free and ungated. 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Methane.Exchange screens it as a pad for gas-fired power and compute, and we do the land work. - [Industrial Cooling Water & Surface Rights for Compute](https://datacenter.properties/produced-water-and-industrial-cooling-water-rights-for-compute): Screen rural land with groundwater wells, industrial water supply, or closed-loop dry cooling footprints alongside natural gas for modular compute pads. - [Substation & Behind-the-Meter Compute Land](https://datacenter.properties/substation-and-behind-the-meter-compute-land): Have acreage next to a utility substation, high-pressure gas transmission line, or behind-the-meter power source? Submit it for compute pad screening. - [Surface Title & Mineral Accommodation for Compute Pads](https://datacenter.properties/surface-title-and-mineral-accommodation-for-compute-pads): How surface title, severed mineral estates, oil and gas lease surface-use rights, and fuel-line easements are checked before placing a gas-fired compute pad. - [Wellhead & Gathering Line Pad Sites | Datacenter Properties](https://datacenter.properties/wellhead-and-gathering-line-pad-sites): Submit surface acreage near producing oil and gas wells, central tank batteries, or gathering taps to be screened as a gas-fired power and modular compute pad. --- ## Full Page Summaries & Sections ### ERCOT & Permian Basin Compute Pad Siting | Datacenter Properties - **URL**: https://datacenter.properties/ercot-and-permian-basin-compute-pad-siting - **Headline**: Permian Basin and West Texas land for gas-fired power and compute. - **Summary**: Screen surface acreage in West Texas & the Permian Basin for behind-the-meter gas generation, ERCOT distribution or transmission proximity. - **Sections**: Send your West Texas or Permian site facts - Pad Type 04 · Permian Basin & ERCOT West Siting - In the Delaware and Midland Basins, associated gas production, gathering pipelines, and rural electric distribution lines frequently cross the same ranch or section. Operators building modular compute or microgrid pads look for 2 to 20 level acres outside active drilling setbacks where a generator bank can pull field gas today and, where feasible, parallel with or step into ERCOT West distribution or transmission infrastructure later. - Methane.Exchange screens West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico surface tracts against buyer requirements while our land team reads the underlying surface deeds, prior oil and gas leases, pipeline right-of-way easements, and grazing leases. Nothing is published on a public map and nothing is shared with a developer without your permission. ### Fiber Backhaul & Dark Fiber Easements for Compute Pads - **URL**: https://datacenter.properties/fiber-backhaul-and-dark-fiber-easements-for-compute-pads - **Headline**: Pads where natural gas supply meets a fiber corridor. - **Summary**: Qualify surface parcels with highway fiber corridors, dark fiber, or microwave line-of-sight alongside natural gas supply for modular AI compute pads. - **Sections**: Send the fiber and gas site facts - Pad Type 05 · Fiber Corridors & Low-Latency Backhaul - Batch training and curtailable compute can run over satellite or point-to-point microwave, but low-latency inference and enterprise clusters need terrestrial fiber backhaul. Land parcels that sit near both a producing gas source (or gathering tap) and a state highway, railroad, or pipeline corridor carrying long-haul or regional dark fiber solve the hardest two-part siting problem in edge compute. - When you submit a tract near fiber and gas, we verify the surface ownership, check whether existing telecommunications easements allow a lateral splice or handhole tap, and map the shortest route from the gas meter and fiber corridor to the proposed equipment pad. ### Land near gas for power and compute pads | Datacenter Properties - **URL**: https://datacenter.properties/ - **Headline**: Land next to gas production, as a pad for power and compute. - **Summary**: Own or control land near producing wells? Methane.Exchange screens it as a pad for gas-fired power and compute, and we do the land work. - **Sections**: Or send the site facts from here - For landowners and site controllers - Companies that run generators and compute containers on field gas need a few acres near the wells: level ground, a road in, a short fuel line to the meter, and an owner who can sign a surface lease. If you own or control land like that, Methane.Exchange screens it against the requirements buyers bring, and we read the surface, mineral, lease and easement records behind it. Nothing is listed publicly and nothing is shared without your permission. - Describe your site at Methane.Exchange ### Industrial Cooling Water & Surface Rights for Compute - **URL**: https://datacenter.properties/produced-water-and-industrial-cooling-water-rights-for-compute - **Headline**: Surface land with water access and space for high-density cooling. - **Summary**: Screen rural land with groundwater wells, industrial water supply, or closed-loop dry cooling footprints alongside natural gas for modular compute pads. - **Sections**: Send the site and water facts - Pad Type 06 · Cooling Water & Pad Infrastructure - Closed-loop liquid-to-air dry coolers and dielectric immersion skids need extra pad acreage for radiator banks and airflow clearance, while adiabatic or evaporative peak-shaving systems in hot summer basins require a reliable non-potable or industrial water source. Ranches and industrial tracts that control both the surface pad and on-site water wells (or brackish supply lines) give high-density compute operators options during triple-digit ambient afternoons. - We help landowners document what a compute buyer needs to know upfront: usable pad dimensions, groundwater conservation district rules or existing water well permits, caliche road access, and proximity to the nearest gas meter or substation. ### Substation & Behind-the-Meter Compute Land - **URL**: https://datacenter.properties/substation-and-behind-the-meter-compute-land - **Headline**: Acreage where gas transmission and electric distribution meet. - **Summary**: Have acreage next to a utility substation, high-pressure gas transmission line, or behind-the-meter power source? Submit it for compute pad screening. - **Sections**: Send the substation or corridor parcel facts - Pad Type 02 · Substation & Pipeline Interconnects - Larger modular compute and prime-power deployments look for 5 to 50+ acres near a gas processing plant tailgate, residue gas pipeline tap, or electric cooperative/utility substation where behind-the-meter gas generation can run alongside a grid tie or fiber backhaul. - When you submit a parcel here, we review the parcel boundaries, county road frontage, distance to the nearest pipeline and substation fence, and existing right-of-way encumbrances before introducing any qualified buyer. ### Surface Title & Mineral Accommodation for Compute Pads - **URL**: https://datacenter.properties/surface-title-and-mineral-accommodation-for-compute-pads - **Headline**: Surface leases, mineral rights, and easements on oilfield pads. - **Summary**: How surface title, severed mineral estates, oil and gas lease surface-use rights, and fuel-line easements are checked before placing a gas-fired compute pad. - **Sections**: Send the site facts for a preliminary screen - Pad Type 03 · Split-Estate Land Work - In oil and gas basins, the mineral estate is dominant and the oil and gas lessee holds implied surface-use rights only for operations reasonably necessary to produce the leased minerals. Running third-party compute containers or selling off-lease power typically requires a separate commercial surface lease from the fee surface owner, plus coordination with the oil and gas operator and any agricultural or grazing tenant. - Because our landmen run both the courthouse land work and the Methane.Exchange qualification desk, we check who holds the surface fee, what mortgages or grazing leases exist, and what fuel-line and road easements are needed to connect the pad cleanly. ### Wellhead & Gathering Line Pad Sites | Datacenter Properties - **URL**: https://datacenter.properties/wellhead-and-gathering-line-pad-sites - **Headline**: Level ground next to producing wells or a gathering tap. - **Summary**: Submit surface acreage near producing oil and gas wells, central tank batteries, or gathering taps to be screened as a gas-fired power and modular compute pad. - **Sections**: Send the wellhead or gathering pad facts - Pad Type 01 · Wellhead & Gathering Proximity - Modular generators and compute containers placed on field gas need a short, unobstructed fuel-line run from the wellhead separator, central tank battery (CTB), or gathering meter, plus all-weather caliche or gravel road access for 40-foot trailers and service trucks. Typical footprints range from 0.5 to 5 usable acres outside the active well-workover radius. - We check what matters before a buyer or operator wastes a field trip: who owns the surface fee, what existing oil and gas leases or pipeline easements cross the tract, whether the pad sits out of the 100-year floodplain, and how far the fuel interconnect sits from the proposed pad boundary.