Geoforge · 2025 → present

Geoforge: geospatial screening for data center sites

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A map workspace for teams, and a free launch site that turns any location into a sourced power report.

Same day

power screening on the launch site I designed and built, instead of weeks with a consultant

Geoforge launch site

for a full, sourced power report on that site

Free with a work email

Overview

Access to power is the main constraint for data centers, and checking it usually takes an expert several weeks. Geoforge does it the same day and for free. You pick a location and get a sourced report with a verdict for each part of the power question.

The problem

To screen a site for power, you need interconnection capacity, the queue, historical pricing, nearby generation and transmission, and the time to power. Developers, landowners and brokers pay consultants thousands of dollars and wait weeks for that analysis, and bad sites are often dropped late, after money has already been spent.

Weeks of work and thousands of dollars for one site analysis
Dense grid data that non-experts cannot verify
The temptation to blend everything into one score, which hides the details people need
Two different audiences: internal teams and first-time public visitors

The solution

In the app I designed the map workspace: a My Maps gallery where teams keep location datasets such as grid capacity or candidate sites, and the screens around it. The interface stays light and quiet, so the maps and the data stand out. For the launch site the team decided against a blended score, and I still think that was the right call. Each report covers nine power criteria, and each one has its own verdict, key number and sourced explanation.

A My Maps gallery with search, roles and sharing
Nine criteria with nine separate verdicts, no combined score
Every figure linked to grid and market records
A self-contained launch site with live maps, designed and built by me

Map workspace flow, animated in Figma Motion

The core map: data layers plotted over the grid, with a layers-and-legend panel alongside.

The same data as a graduated-colour map: each county shaded by its value, with labels and a custom scheme.

A team's datasets in one place — grid capacity, sites, land use — with background jobs running as data loads.

Editing a layer's rows, with an assistant that builds new data layers from a plain-language request.

Every edit to a layer is logged and reversible: who changed what, by hand or via the assistant, with one-click undo.

Nine power criteria, each with its own tier verdict and headline figure — no single blended score.

A pipeline of candidate sites with an advance-or-kill verdict, capacity and pricing for each.

Fill, size, colour scheme and opacity controls for how each dataset reads on the map.

Matching uploaded addresses to map geometry before a layer renders.

Measuring driving distance and time from a site to the nearest infrastructure.

Members, roles and invitations for a workspace, with guarded actions like removing a user.

Process

Discovery

Site screening workflow

Grid data model

Audience split

Design

Map workspace and layers

Scorecard and data-viz

Team, roles and settings

Build

Launch site in code

Live MapLibre embeds

Shareable private reports

Result

Site screening that used to need a consultant now takes one day and costs nothing, with just a work email. Because each criterion has its own verdict, a developer can take the report into a meeting and explain it line by line, without debating a combined score.

The map workspace and the launch site share one visual language, so a visitor who signs up does not feel they have moved to a different company's product.

Free, same-day power screening instead of a paid study that takes weeks
Nine sourced verdicts that a non-expert can follow
Launch site designed and shipped to production by me

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