Data Center Project Watch
Data center proposals are triggering rezoning fights in hundreds of U.S. counties simultaneously, but local news coverage has shrunk exactly as this wave hit, leaving residents, landowners, brokers, and the consultants working both sides to track county agendas, utility filings, and hearing dates manually and often too late to act.
Real, fast-growing, poorly-served demand (800+ active opposition groups, $130B in projects delayed/canceled in a single quarter) with almost no dedicated competitor tracking this specific niche end-to-end, though it requires real research labor to stay accurate county by county rather than being a pure software play.
The highest-value customers aren't residents paying $10-20/month — they're brokers, land-use attorneys, and consultants on both sides of the fight who'll pay hundreds per month for reliable county-level filing data, so the real path to real profitability is landing a handful of B2B subscribers per county rather than scaling residential subscriber count alone.
Fairly steady year-round since county hearing calendars run continuously, with a slight dip in summer and a pickup in fall/spring hearing seasons.
Suits you if
- ✓You're comfortable doing sustained manual research — reading county agendas, utility filings, and public notices
- ✓You can build relationships with brokers, attorneys, and community groups as paying B2B customers, not just consumer subscribers
- ✓You're willing to start narrow (a handful of counties) and prove the model before scaling coverage
Skip it if
- ✕You expect this to be a purely automated scraping business with no manual verification
- ✕You're not willing to track unglamorous public records week after week
- ✕You have no way to reach local residents, brokers, or attorneys to sell into a specific county
Skills: Research and public-records literacy (reading zoning agendas, utility filings, rezoning applications) is the core skill, paired with basic newsletter/CRM tooling and enough sales ability to convert real estate brokers and attorneys into paid B2B subscribers.
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