Insights & Resources
Useful frameworks for decisions that do not come with simple answers.
Guides, analysis, tools, and briefings developed to help public leaders understand complex issues, ask better questions, and make decisions that hold up over time.
Data Center Claims: What People Hear vs. What the Evidence Shows
A clear starting point for Texas city leaders and residents before the public narrative hardens. This resource brings the central evidence, competing claims, and practical evaluation questions together in one place.
Substantive material for the public discussion.
The briefing page includes:
- Eight common claims, each with an evidence-based verdict
- The full briefing with supporting sources
- A concise two-page summary for councils and public meetings
- Practical questions covering water, power, noise, taxes, incentives, transparency, generators, and cooling
Municipal Guide for Data Center Evaluation
A practical starting point for communities evaluating technical, fiscal, agreement, transparency, compliance, and decommissioning questions.
Begin before the negotiation begins.
The most important early decision is often the process itself: what will be reviewed, who will review it, which assumptions must be tested, and how the community will document the basis for action.
- Technical and infrastructure review
- Fiscal and incentive analysis
- Community-benefit provisions
- Transparency and decision records
- Compliance and long-term accountability
Insights for your use and consideration.
Our resources will include open materials as well as selected tools and models available through a brief email request. The goal is to provide enough structure to improve the next decision—not to replace the local analysis each issue requires.
Complex development projects
Frameworks for data centers, economic-development proposals, public benefits, agreements, and long-range accountability.
Begin with data centers →Budgeting and property taxation
Plain-spoken analysis of tax rates, revenue, valuation, budget choices, historical context, and the public narrative around those decisions.
Request a briefing →Strategy and organizational performance
Practical prompts for strategic planning, implementation, governance, process design, organizational assessment, and performance review.
Ask about available tools →Economic development and incentives
Ways to organize fiscal tradeoffs, timing, community benefits, performance commitments, and risk for an informed public decision.
Discuss a model →Facilities and capital delivery
Briefings that connect service needs, programming, feasibility, design, procurement, capital cost, schedule, and implementation.
Review design services →Decision support in context
Recorded discussions and presentation materials that explain not only the conclusion, but also the reasoning and process behind it.
Invite a discussion →Share broadly where we can. Add context where it matters.
Some resources will be available for immediate download. Others—particularly models, detailed checklists, and issue briefings—will be provided through a short request so we can understand the context and direct you to the most relevant material.