DC Hub — Data Center Site Selection & Colocation: Electricity, Power Grid, Gas, Fiber MCP Server

Real-time electricity grid data for the 7 US ISOs (PJM, ERCOT, CAISO, MISO, SPP, NYISO, ISO-NE) via EIA hourly RTO: fuel mix, demand, 24h demand curve. Pass iso=PJM (any of the 7). Raw real-time telemetry for one ISO; do NOT use for power-availability, time-to-power or interconnection-queue analysis (use get_grid_intelligence), nor for retail/gas pricing detail (use get_energy_prices). For non-US grids (GB, EU bidding zones, Taiwan, Australia) use get_grid_scoreboard.

Use when a user asks "can I get N MW of power in <ISO> and how long will it take?" — the flagship grid-headroom + interconnection-queue brief for one ISO. Example: "How much excess power does PJM have right now and what is the time-to-power for a 200MW load?" — get_grid_intelligence region_id="PJM". Params: region_id (aliases iso/region accepted) — one of the 7 US ISOs ("PJM" | "ERCOT" | "CAISO" | "MISO" | "SPP" | "NYISO" | "ISO-NE") OR a US EIA balancing authority (40+ now live, e.g. Atlanta/SOCO, Carolinas/DUK, Florida/FPL, Phoenix/AZPS, Las Vegas/NEVP, Portland/PGE, Seattle/SCL, LA/LDWP, Quincy/GCPD, Denver/PSCO, Tennessee/TVA — note: balancing authorities return live generation mix; demand, headroom, interconnection-queue and DCPI scores remain ISO-level for the 7 ISOs). You may instead pass market="Ashburn" (or a metro slug like "northern-virginia") to name a MARKET rather than a grid code: it is resolved to the ISO for that market through the published DCPI market row, and the reply carries a resolved_from block naming what it resolved to — the figures then describe the ISO, which is larger than the market you named. Returns: {iso, iso_name, demand_mw, generation_mix_pct{NG,COL,NUC,WND,SUN,WAT,…}, renewable_share_pct, gas_share_pct, constraint_score (0-100 DCPI), excess_power_score (0-100 DCPI), avg_time_to_power_months, avg_queue_wait_months, curtailment_pct, reserve_margin_pct, retail_price_cents_kwh, queue_depth_gw, data_center_share_pct, stranded_capacity_mw, grid_emergencies_30d, build_rate_pct, last_updated}. ★avg_time_to_power_months and avg_queue_wait_months are DIFFERENT measurements and are not interchangeable: time-to-power is the DCPI per-market estimate averaged over the ISO, while queue-wait is a proxy derived from live interconnection-queue DEPTH (12 + 0.6 months per GW, clipped 12-66) and is the one that saturates on the deepest queues. Quote whichever you mean by name. Do NOT use to compare 2+ ISOs side-by-side (use compare_isos) or for the global greenest-first ranking (use get_grid_scoreboard).

GLOBAL grid scoreboard — 9 US grid operators (PJM, ERCOT, CAISO, MISO, SPP, NYISO, ISO-NE, BPA, TVA) + Great Britain (NESO) + the European bidding zones (Germany, France, Netherlands, Italy/Milan, Spain, Poland, Switzerland, Portugal, the Nordics + Central/Eastern Europe — via ENTSO-E; the exact live-vs-configured count is in counts_basis.eu_zones_live / eu_zones_configured, measured per call rather than asserted here) + Taiwan (Taipower) + Japan (OCCTO areas) + South Korea (KPX) + Brazil SIN (ONS), ranked side-by-side on each feed's LATEST PUBLISHED reading: renewable share %, gas share %, full fuel mix (gas/nuclear/coal/wind/solar/hydro MW), and demand. ★FRESHNESS IS NOT UNIFORM and every row says so: each carries mix_period, mix_age_hours and freshness_basis. The US rows come from EIA hourly RTO, which publishes the FUEL-TYPE BREAKDOWN several hours behind aggregate demand — an overnight mix reading is routinely 18-24h old (it will show near-zero solar) while demand on the same row is ~1-2h old. Read mix_age_hours before narrating any row as current, and NEVER describe a row as the mix "right now" unless its mix_age_hours is small; demand_period and mix_period are separate clocks and the row reports both plus demand_vs_mix_lag_hours. One call answers "which grid worldwide is greenest, or most gas-reliant, for siting a data center?" — vs compare_isos (pairwise) or get_grid_data (single ISO). Every ranked grid scores renewable_share_pct as wind+solar+hydro (apples-to-apples across all feeds; geothermal is reported separately and, where it exists, also as renewable_share_incl_geothermal_pct — note get_grid_intelligence uses that geothermal-inclusive figure for US ISOs); Brazil ranks by renewable share but reports NO gas share (ONS bundles gas/coal/oil/biomass into one thermal figure — never presented as gas); Australia NEM (AEMO) + Singapore (EMA) are listed unranked in partial_grids (no full fuel split — kept honest). Source: US = EIA hourly RTO; GB = Elexon Insights; EU = ENTSO-E Transparency; TW = Taipower; JP = TSO eria_jukyu CSVs; KR = KPX real-time; BR = ONS Balanço de Energia; AU = AEMO NEM; SG = EMA NEMS — all live via DC Hub, greenest-first. Quote with attribution to DC Hub (CC-BY-4.0). Answers "which grid is cleanest right now", "how is ERCOT doing at this moment". Try: get_grid_scoreboard.

Forward-looking "where is the next hyperscale-friendly grid emerging" radar. Returns the US markets + ISOs with the strongest near-term emergence signal (BUILD verdict + excess-power headroom + short time-to-power), an ISO rollup, and a grid-headroom leaderboard. With a paid key, also the transition thesis: which ISO is opening up and why. The predictive counter to retrospective "where capacity landed" reports. Answers "where should I be looking next", "which market is about to become buildable". Try: grid_transition_radar max_months=24. Do NOT use for the current ISO queue snapshot (use get_interconnection_queue) or a present-day market ranking (use rank_markets); this is the forward-looking emergence radar.

Use when an agent needs a WHOLE-market briefing it can drop straight into its context window — one call returns a token-budgeted context pack for a data-center market: DCPI verdict, power & grid facts, the Claude-written 12-month outlook, M&A deals, construction pipeline, operator footprint, transaction comps, risk factors, and top news — each section with its own token count, as_of timestamp, and citable URL, greedily filled in that priority order under your max_tokens budget. Example: "Brief me on the Columbus data-center market" — get_market_context market=columbus max_tokens=4000. Params: market (required, market slug e.g. northern-virginia — valid slugs come from rank_markets); max_tokens (optional, 200-8000, default 4000). Returns {sections:[{id,title,text,tokens,as_of,cite}], used_tokens, omitted}. Do NOT use for a single metric (use get_market_dcpi_rank), the raw structured metric set (use get_market_intel), or cross-market ranking (use rank_markets); this is the narrative briefing pack. Cite "DC Hub (dchub.cloud)".

DCPI rank for a single market: BUILD/CAUTION/AVOID verdict, 0-100 composite_score (verdict-aware), excess_power_score, constraint_score, time_to_power_months. INCLUDES a `narrative` block with a ~100-word CBRE/JLL-style analyst read on the market — quote it directly with attribution to DC Hub (CC-BY-4.0). Use to answer "should I build here?" with structured reasoning + ready-to-cite prose across 300+ scored markets in 10 ISOs. Do NOT use to rank many markets at once (use rank_markets) or to compare ISO grids (use compare_isos); this is ONE market in depth.

Use when a user asks about ONE data-center market — vacancy, capacity pricing, supply pipeline, dominant operators, YoY growth — across any of 300+ markets. Example: "What is Northern Virginia's vacancy rate, $/MW-day pricing, and current DCPI verdict?" — get_market_intel market=northern-virginia. Params: market is the market_slug (e.g. "northern-virginia", "dallas", "phoenix", "frankfurt", "tokyo", "singapore"). Returns: {market, country, capacity_mw_total, capacity_mw_under_construction, vacancy_pct, absorption_mw_ttm, price_per_mw_day_usd, yoy_growth_pct, dominant_operators[], dcpi_verdict (BUILD/CAUTION/AVOID), composite_score, last_updated}. Do NOT use to rank multiple markets (use rank_markets) or for a single facility (use get_facility).

Subscribe to movement alerts for a DCPI market (FREE with a key) — get notified when its Excess-Power / Constraint score moves. On the free tier, email alerts are delivered to the email your human bound via bind_email (call bind_email first; the destination is forced to that address). Set channel="email". Webhook delivery (channel="webhook" + destination=<https URL>) is Pro. Lets an agent MONITOR markets, not just query them. Answers "tell me when this market moves", "ping me if Northern Virginia’s power score changes". Try: set_market_alert market=northern-virginia channel=webhook destination=https://hooks.example.com/dc. Do NOT use to read a market right now (use get_market_dcpi_rank); this SUBSCRIBES to future movement.

Behind-the-meter / gas-fired power inputs for a US data-center market: Henry Hub spot, regional basis differential, and the delivered industrial + electric gas tariff ($/MMBtu), each with its own source label. Pass market=<slug> (e.g. "northern-virginia", "dallas", "phoenix"). ★ WITHDRAWN 2026-08-08: the gas-to-grid levelized cost ($/MWh across CCGT/peaker heat-rate scenarios) is NO LONGER RETURNED. Five surfaces published a $/MWh for the same market on the same day up to 5.5x apart because each chose the burner-tip price by a different rule, with no sanity gate — this endpoint served a physically impossible $6.73/MWh for Phoenix stamped data_basis: "live". The heat-rate arithmetic was correct; the input price selection was not. The $/MMBtu layers are sourced and still returned; `gas_to_grid_status` carries the reason. DO NOT quote a cached $/MWh figure, and do not derive one yourself from the $/MMBtu without saying that you did. Do NOT use for the electricity grid fuel mix (use get_grid_data).

Data Center Gas Index (DCGI) — the per-US-state natural-gas suitability score. ★ WITHDRAWN 2026-08-08, RESTORED 2026-08-30 after all three defective terms were repaired: the 20-point interstate-share term was case-blind against EIA TYPEPIPE and scored ~0 for every state (122 -> 17,571 segments now counted); the price was chosen by a non-deterministic tie-break across the EIA industrial (PIN) and electric-power (PEU) series, which carry different margins; and nine states including Texas ran on a hardcoded cost constant because the price loader dropped them on a case-sensitive name lookup. ★ DO NOT COMPARE a DCGI figure published before 2026-08-08 with one published now — they are different indices; the full record is at /api/v1/dcgi/methodology under `corrections`. A state that cannot be priced comes back verdict UNSCORED with dcgi null and an `unscored_reason`, never a placeholder score, so treat UNSCORED as absence and not as a low score. `gas_price_series` names which EIA series answered each state. ★ STILL WITHDRAWN and NOT restored by this: every gas-fired $/MWh figure — a separate defect from the same audit. Use get_gas_intelligence for pipeline, operator and parent-midstream data.

Use when a human asks about gas-fired or behind-the-meter power economics for a data center in a US state — "is gas power cheaper than the grid in Texas?", "what is the gas access + pipeline situation in Virginia?". The GAS analogue of get_grid_intelligence: fuses the DC Hub Gas Index (DCGI), live Henry Hub, gas-to-grid $/MWh across heat-rate scenarios, pipeline-operator presence, and the live grid gas share into one per-STATE brief. Params: region (US state code or name, e.g. "TX" | "Texas" | "Virginia"). Returns: {region, region_name, gas_access (pipeline counts + operators — PRESENCE not firm capacity), henry_hub_usd_mmbtu (live), basis_usd_mmbtu (synthetic-labeled), delivered_price_usd_mmbtu (null where the tariff table is sparse — surfaced honestly, never fabricated), live_grid_gas_share_pct, pipeline_presence (operators + parent midstreams), data_basis (per-field provenance/confidence), omitted_no_fabrication, dcgi_status, gas_to_grid_status}. ★ ★ TWO DIFFERENT STATES, do not merge them. dcgi_score and dcgi_verdict were withdrawn 2026-08-08 and RESTORED 2026-08-30 once all three defective terms were repaired — they are returned again, but a figure published before 2026-08-08 is from a different index and must not be compared with one published now (/api/v1/dcgi/methodology `corrections`). gas_to_grid_usd_per_mwh and the behind-the-meter-vs-grid delta remain WITHDRAWN and are still NOT returned: five surfaces disagreed by up to 5.5x on the same market's $/MWh with no sanity gate, and that defect is not fixed. `dcgi_status` and `gas_to_grid_status` carry the current state of each — read them rather than assuming both moved together. DO NOT quote a cached DCGI score or $/MWh. Everything else in this brief — live Henry Hub, live ISO gas share, pipeline and parent-midstream presence — is unaffected and is what this tool is now for. Every field carries a data_basis label; gas storage / LNG / firm pipeline capacity are deliberately OMITTED (no feed). Do NOT use for electricity grid headroom (use get_grid_intelligence) or the DCGI score alone (use get_gas_index).

Structured read of a parcel BOUNDARY — pass your own GeoJSON Polygon/MultiPolygon, OR just lat+lon and DC Hub finds the containing parcel in its HOSTED parcel-boundary layer (free county/state GIS polygons, rolling out by data-center market — Loudoun County VA first; a point outside hosted coverage returns an honest 404 with the coverage list, never a guess). Returns _entity=parcel_analysis: geodesic total_acres, a per-member acreage breakdown, a contiguous flag, representative_point = the centroid of the LARGEST-area member (never the multi-part geometric center, which can land off-parcel on a highway median or river and poison every point-keyed read), and hosted_parcel {parcel_id, county, state, acres_per_source} when the polygon came from the hosted layer. Also returns a site_evaluation_handoff to pipe into analyze_site + get_water_risk at that anchor. Use when you HAVE a boundary or a point on a specific parcel and want it anchored + sized; for a general lat/lon site score use analyze_site; for the interconnection-queue survivor set use get_refined_queue (queue rows carry NO parcel identity, so they never auto-join to hosted parcels).

Use when a user has ONE specific lat/lon (a parcel, a candidate site) and wants the full multi-factor data-center suitability read in one call. Example: "Score this Phoenix parcel for a 100MW build — power, gas, fiber, market & risk." — analyze_site lat=33.45 lon=-112.07 capacity_mw=100 state=AZ. Params: lat (-90 to 90, required unless candidate_id or location), lon (-180 to 180, required unless candidate_id or location), location (a market NAME or metro slug instead of coordinates, e.g. location="ashburn" — resolved to that market's PUBLISHED CENTROID through the DCPI market row, with a resolved_from block naming what it resolved to; a MARKET-level read, NOT the parcel you named, and a trailing state is not stripped so "Ashburn, VA" will not resolve), candidate_id (a cand_… from get_refined_queue — resolves coordinates from the frozen mint and ignores lat/lon), capacity_mw (target load in MW, e.g. 50-500 — returns a `capacity_context` block sizing that load against nearby installed generation; it deliberately does NOT move overall_score, and the block names where the load IS applied), state (2-letter US, optional — improves the tax-incentive/context lookup), include_grid/include_risk/include_fiber (booleans, default true). Returns (full, paid): {overall_score (aka composite_score, 0-100 composite — for the integrity-first version that never imputes a missing factor, use get_composite_site_score), interpretation (verdict string, e.g. "Excellent site"), scores{power_infrastructure, gas_pipeline_access, fiber_connectivity, market_conditions, risk_resilience — each 0-100}, nearby{substations_50km, power_plants_80km, gas_pipelines_50km, facilities_100km, fiber_carriers_in_state, generation_capacity_mw, total_capacity_mw}, power_cost{industrial_cents_kwh, commercial_cents_kwh, period, basis}, fiber{connectivity_score, nearest_carrier_km, near_net_bucket, top_carriers[], single_carrier_risk}, location, citation}. FREE tier returns a REAL, citable HEADLINE — composite_score + verdict + the single top limiting factor (the lowest sub-score) + citation; the full per-factor breakdown, nearby infrastructure, power cost, fiber carriers, and the branded Site Analysis PDF (generate_site_analysis) are Pro. For dedicated water / disaster / climate / tax reads use get_water_risk / get_disaster_risk / get_climate_intel / get_tax_incentives. Do NOT use to compare 2+ sites (use compare_sites) or to find sites that match a target (use find_alternatives).

Use when a user wants a side-by-side of 2-4 ISO grids — fuel mix, demand, renewable/gas share, interconnection-queue depth, time-to-power — in one call instead of N sequential get_grid_intelligence calls. Example: "Compare PJM vs ERCOT vs CAISO on gas share, renewable share, and queue depth right now." — compare_isos isos="PJM,ERCOT,CAISO". Params: isos is a comma-separated list (2-4 max) drawn from the 7 live US ISOs: "PJM" | "ERCOT" | "CAISO" | "MISO" | "SPP" | "NYISO" | "ISO-NE". Returns: {isos[], comparison:{<iso>:{demand_mw, generation_mix_pct, renewable_share_pct, gas_share_pct, constraint_score, excess_power_score, avg_time_to_power_months, avg_queue_wait_months, queue_depth_gw, retail_price_cents_kwh}}, as_of}. ★avg_time_to_power_months (DCPI per-market estimate, ISO-averaged) and avg_queue_wait_months (proxy from live queue DEPTH) are DIFFERENT measurements — quote whichever you mean by name. Do NOT use to rank ALL grids globally (use get_grid_scoreboard) or for the single-ISO deep brief (use get_grid_intelligence).

Use when a user has narrowed to 2-4 candidate parcels and wants a side-by-side winner picker across power, gas, fiber, market & risk — with a recommended pick and the reason. Runs the analyze_site read on each parcel and ranks them by overall score. Example: "Compare a Phoenix parcel and an Ashburn parcel for a 50MW build — which wins and why?" — compare_sites locations="33.45,-112.07;39.04,-77.48" capacity_mw=50. Params: locations is a semicolon-separated list of "lat,lon" pairs (2-4 max); capacity_mw is the target load in MW (e.g. 50-500) and is forwarded to every site — each carries its own `capacity_context`; it does NOT move overall_score, so the winner is picked on location suitability, not on your requested load. Returns (full, paid): {sites:[{lat, lon, capacity_requested_mw, overall_score (0-100 composite), interpretation (verdict string, e.g. "Excellent site"), scores{power_infrastructure, gas_pipeline_access, fiber_connectivity, market_conditions, risk_resilience — each 0-100}, nearby{substations_50km, power_plants_80km, gas_pipelines_50km, facilities_100km, fiber_carriers_in_state, generation_capacity_mw, total_capacity_mw}, fiber{connectivity_score, carrier_count, nearest_carrier_km, near_net_bucket, single_carrier_risk, top_carriers[{carrier, distance_km}]}, power_cost, location}], winner:{lat, lon, overall_score, why}, decision_rationale, citation}. Each site carries the same shape analyze_site returns. compare_sites is a paid/Pro tool — the free tier returns a locked preview, not the comparison. Do NOT use for a single site (use analyze_site) or to rank entire markets (use rank_markets).

Full metadata for one facility — name, operator, address, lat/lon, power capacity (MW total/used), cooling type, fiber providers (count + carrier list), commissioning year, status, the DCPI verdict for its market, and peer facilities nearby. Answers "who operates this data center and how big is it", "how many fiber carriers are in that building". Try: get_facility id=equinix-dc1-ashburn — or get_facility slug=digital-realty-iad8. Returns ONE facility in full; do NOT use to search or list many facilities (use search_facilities).

Use when a user asks what has CHANGED in a facility's (or its market's) risk profile recently — "has this site gotten riskier lately?", "which way is this market moving?" — a temporal question static-trained models can't answer. Returns the REAL DCPI market-health delta (excess-power score change over the window, direction improving/worsening/flat) from DC Hub's history-preserving daily snapshots. INTEGRITY: only DCPI market-health has a short-term temporal series; the site-hazard dimensions (FEMA disaster / USGS seismic / NOAA climate / WRI water) are DECLARED static (they don't change week-to-week) with a pointer to the point-in-time tool — never a fabricated week-over-week delta; no snapshot history → coverage:unavailable. Params: facility_id (a discovered-facility id or slug) OR market (a market name/slug), since (e.g. "7d"/"30d", default 7d). Returns {facility, dcpi_market_health:{delta, now, direction, coverage}, static_dimensions{...}, summary}. For the current point-in-time risk (not the change) use get_composite_site_score / get_disaster_risk / get_climate_intel.

Use when scoring a candidate site for fiber depth, mapping long-haul routes between metros, or assessing dark-fiber availability for a hyperscale build. Example: "Show all Zayo long-haul fiber routes through Northern Virginia I can put on a Leaflet map." — get_fiber_intel carrier=Zayo route_type=longhaul. Params: carrier one of "Zayo" | "Lumen" | "Cogent" | "Crown Castle" | "Windstream" | "GTT" | "Uniti" | "FiberLight" | "Segra" | "Arcadian Infracom" (omit for all carriers); route_type one of "metro" | "longhaul" | "dark" | "ix"; market a metro name or slug (e.g. "dallas", "ashburn", "northern-virginia") to return ONLY routes touching that metro (either endpoint near it) — pairs well with route_type=longhaul to map a metro's long-haul backbones. Returns: GeoJSON FeatureCollection {features:[{geometry, properties:{carrier, route_type, fiber_count, lit_capacity_gbps, capacity, distance_miles, distance_km}}]} ready to drop into Leaflet/Mapbox. Do NOT use to count fiber providers at a single facility (use get_facility) or for IX interconnection-density scores (use analyze_site).

Use when you need the FIBER-READINESS / connectivity verdict for ONE parcel or site (lat/lon): near-net distance to a carrier-served facility, how many distinct fiber carriers are reachable, and whether there is single-carrier risk (no path diversity). This is the parcel connectivity answer engineering site-selectors screen on. Example: "Is this Loudoun County parcel fiber-ready and how many carriers can serve it?" — get_fiber_readiness lat=39.04 lon=-77.48 radius_km=50. Params: lat (-90..90, required), lon (-180..180, required), radius_km (search radius in km, default 50, range 5-200). Returns: {score 0-100 (null when not scored — see carrier_data_coverage), near_net_bucket ("on-net"|"near-net"|"acceptable"|"build-required"|"unknown"), nearest_carrier_km, carrier_count, top_carriers:[{carrier, distance_km}], single_carrier_risk (bool, null when not scored), fiber_coverage_km, verdict_short, carrier_data_coverage ("confirmed"|"none_in_region")}. IMPORTANT — "unknown" is NOT "bad": carrier presence comes from PeeringDB, which is global but thin outside dense US/EU metros, so DC Hub distinguishes "no carrier serves this point" from "PeeringDB does not describe this region". When carrier_data_coverage is "none_in_region" the bucket is "unknown", score/single_carrier_risk are null, and NOTHING about the site fiber has been measured — do not report it as greenfield, unserved, or a build-required site. Only carrier_data_coverage "confirmed" with carrier_count 0 means a fiber build is genuinely required. Do NOT use to map carrier ROUTES between metros (use get_fiber_intel) or for a full multi-factor site suitability score (use analyze_site).

Real-time composite market health score (0-100) aggregating supply/demand balance, vacancy, absorption velocity, fiber depth, power availability, and pricing trend. Returns the index value, percentile rank across the 300+ market set, 7d/30d trend direction, and underlying component scores. Answers "is this market healthy", "how does Northern Virginia look overall right now". Try: get_intelligence_index market=northern-virginia. Returns ONE composite health number for a market; do NOT use for the full market metric set (use get_market_intel) or to rank multiple markets (use rank_markets).

Semantic (meaning-based) search over DC Hub's live intelligence corpus — industry news, M&A deals, discovered facilities and per-market DCPI analysis narratives — returning the most relevant records with citable source fields. This is the agent-friendly alias over the SAME retrieval layer as semantic_search: same results, different call shape. It takes `query` plus human-readable corpus names (news | deals | facilities | market_narratives); semantic_search takes `q` plus the raw table names. Call ONE of them, not both. Params: query (required, natural language); corpus (optional CSV of the four names above, default all); limit (1-15, default 8). BEHAVIOUR: read-only — it writes nothing, and repeat calls with the same arguments return the same records. ACCESS: works with no key, but anonymous results come back as a TRIMMED PREVIEW; the session X-API-Key hydrates full depth per key, and the free tier is capped per day (call claim_free_key once — no email — if you do not hold a key). Do NOT use when you can filter exactly: search_facilities for structured facility filters, get_news for date/keyword news, list_transactions for deal filters — those match fields and return complete sets, where this ranks by meaning and returns a top-N.

Plan N diverse, road-following fibre lead-in routes from a candidate data-center site to a carrier hotel / POP, with indicative build cost and a route-diversity read. Answers "can I get N diverse fibre routes into this site, how far, how much, and where do they share a corridor?". Example: plan_fiber_leadin from="250 Paringa Road, Murarrie QLD" to="20 Wharf Street, Brisbane City QLD" n=4. Params: from (lat,lng OR street address), to (lat,lng OR address — e.g. a NextDC/Equinix POP), n (1-6 routes, default 4), fibre ("720F"|"1440F"), bore_m (river/rail bore length in metres, optional). Returns per-route length_km + GeoJSON geometry, total_route_km, diversity {min_separation_m_midhaul, shared_street_km}, and indicative cost {capex_usd, opex_usd_yr}. INDICATIVE auto-routed road corridors — NOT engineered alignments; subject to survey, DBYD and carrier confirmation. Do NOT use for a single site-suitability score (use analyze_site) or fibre-provider footprints (use get_fiber_intel).

INSPECT-ONLY — returns the plan WITHOUT running it. For a real multi-step DC Hub question call `execute_plan(intent="...")` instead: it uses the SAME deterministic no-LLM planner and then RUNS the sequence server-side, returning the answers in one envelope. Reach for plan_query only to review, log, diff or audit a plan before executing it yourself. Deterministic keyword routing over the tool registry — no LLM, no network, same intent always returns the same plan (free). Returns _entity=query_plan {best_tool, intent_confidence + workflow_confidence (dual 0-1: question-read vs executability), reason, planner_rationale, recommended_sequence:[{step, tool, depends_on, estimated_calls, why, args_hint}], execution_waves (steps grouped into concurrency waves), execution_strategy.parallel_groups, execution_estimate {estimated_calls, estimated_latency_ms, parallelizable}, alternatives (each with when + rejected_because), coverage_notes, matched_classes} plus a versioned `replay` (schema_version 1): planner_version, decisions:[{id, step, kind, status, decision, rationale, decision_confidence, depends_on}], rejected:[{id, tool, reason}], execution_graph:{waves, parallel_groups} — auditable and machine-readable, safe to log and diff across versions. args_hint values in <angle brackets> come from the named earlier step — substitute them, never invent them. Pass structured hints via context (lat/lon, iso, market, capacity_mw, candidate_id, state, since) to sharpen the plan. For a family-level browse use discover_tools. This tool plans — it never executes; tools/list stays canonical for schemas.

Power-availability TIMING for one US state — when power gets EASIER, year by year. Composes: new generation coming online from EIA-860M monthly, split by confidence class (under-construction vs planned vs testing — never blended); scheduled retirements as dated subtractions; LBNL interconnection-queue depth as congestion context (NO delivery dates — the feed has none and most queued MW never completes). The one derived number, cumulative_firm_signal_mw, counts ONLY under-construction+testing minus retirements — speculative permitting-stage MW is shown but never folded in. Answers "when is new capacity landing in Ohio", "what comes online in Georgia by 2027" with dated, sourced, per-lane-vintaged numbers. HONESTY LINE: supply-side signals, not a load-interconnection promise — generation ≠ deliverable load, and utility study timelines / large-load tariff processes / substation-grain delivery are declared out of coverage in constraint_coverage rather than estimated. Try: get_power_availability_timeline state=OH. Do NOT use for the raw project list (get_power_pipeline), live headroom today (get_grid_intelligence), queue survivors (get_refined_queue), or where-to-build ranking (rank_markets / ai_capacity_index) — this answers WHEN, for one state.

Use when a user asks WHERE NEW POWER GENERATION is coming online (the forward supply pipeline) — e.g. "how much new generation is planned in Virginia / the Southeast / ERCOT, and when?". Planned, permitting, and under-construction generators NATIONWIDE from EIA-860M, INCLUDING non-ISO regions (TVA, Southern Co, Arizona PS, PacifiCorp, LADWP) that interconnection-queue feeds miss. Each generator has location (lat/lng), state, county, balancing authority, technology/fuel (solar photovoltaic, onshore wind, natural-gas combined cycle, batteries, nuclear), nameplate megawatts (MW), status (planned → under construction), and planned online month/year. Filter by state (2-letter, e.g. VA), ba (balancing-authority/ISO code, e.g. PJM, ERCO, SOCO, TVA), status (P/L/T=planned, U/V=under construction, TS=testing), or min_mw. Returns a summary (total planned MW, mix by technology + status) plus the largest projects. Answers "how much new generation is planned in Virginia and when does it land". Try: get_power_pipeline state=VA. Do NOT use for ALREADY-OPERATING capacity or grid headroom (use get_grid_intelligence / get_grid_data) or for data-center construction projects (use get_pipeline).

FRONT DOOR CHECK — if the question is "WHERE SHOULD I PUT <N> MW" (a siting decision), call `execute_plan(intent="<the user's question, unchanged>")` instead: ONE call runs the market ranking AND the per-finalist BUILD/CAUTION/AVOID verdict AND the grid reality-check, and returns a `replay` naming the markets it rejected and why. If the question is "RANK MARKETS BY <metric>" — you want the ranked list itself and nothing attached — rank_markets IS the right call: stay here. The trade is real and runs the other way: execute_plan spent ~3 steps and roughly 4x this tool's latency on a measured market-ranking intent, so a single-capability ask should NOT be routed through the planner. Use when a user wants "the top N markets for X" — one ranked list across the 300+ market set rather than N separate get_market_intel calls. Example: "What are the 10 fastest-growing US markets with at least 100MW of existing capacity?" — rank_markets criteria=fastest_growing region=us limit=10 min_capacity_mw=100. Params: criteria one of "cheapest_power" | "most_capacity" | "most_operators" | "fastest_growing" | "best_overall" (default best_overall) | "ai_ready"; region one of "global" | "us" | "canada" | "eu" | "apac" | "americas" (default us); limit 1-50 (default 10); min_capacity_mw filter floor (e.g. 100). ★ criteria="ai_ready" ranks by DCPI BUILDABILITY (excess-power + time-to-power + BUILD/CAUTION/AVOID verdict) — where NEW AI-campus load can actually LAND — NOT by installed build-out (the other five criteria). Use ai_ready for AI/GPU/hyperscale campus siting: the most-built-out markets are frequently AVOID for new load, so a build-out ranking mis-answers "where do I put a 200MW AI campus". Returns: {criteria, region, result_count, results:[{rank, metro_slug, market, city, state, country, score, value, total_mw, facility_count, operator_count, url}], data_source, methodology}. To drill into a ranked market, feed results[].metro_slug into get_market_dcpi_rank. Do NOT use for a deep read on ONE market (use get_market_intel), for scoring a specific lat/lon (use analyze_site), or for a siting question that also needs the verdict and grid check attached (use execute_plan).

Deterministic multi-site ranking/optimization under constraints — the normalization contract that lets you compare sites across separate analyze_site calls WITHOUT dropping into code. Pass candidates you already enriched (each an object with lat/lng + metric fields like risk_resilience, water_stress, fiber_km — pull these from analyze_site + get_refined_queue and pass site_evaluation_handoff through untouched), hard constraints, and weighted objectives; get back _entity=ranked_sites: top_k ranked with rank, objective_score, per-field normalized{} (0-100 relative to the set), and normalization_basis. objectives use SIGNED weights: +weight maximizes a field (e.g. risk_resilience:1), -weight minimizes it (e.g. water_stress:-0.6, fiber_km:-0.4). constraints are hard filters, fail-closed on a missing field. Use for "pick the best N sites under constraints"; for one site use analyze_site; to get the candidate set first use get_refined_queue. SCORING MECHANICS (2026-07-11): a candidate missing a validated objective is weight-RENORMALIZED over the objectives it carries and the gap is DECLARED in missing_objectives (never silently scored 0); a candidate carrying none scores null and ranks last. percentile=true fields without a population baseline fall back to RELATIVE in-batch scoring (basis reported per-objective in objective_status). CANDIDATE CONTRACT: candidates may be {candidate_id: "cand_…"} entries from get_refined_queue — frozen identity (lat/lng/capacity_mw/fiber_km/iso) loads from the mint, your metrics overlay the rest; expired/unknown ids are dropped AND declared in candidate_contract, never re-resolved.

NEEDS A KEY (free): this WRITES to your account, so a keyless call returns auth_required — call `claim_free_key` FIRST (one step, no email) if you have none. Save a candidate data-center site to your DC Hub account to track it across sessions. Give lat + lon (plus optional name, state, market, target_mw, notes). Returns the saved site id. Pass `market` and DC Hub snapshots the site's DCPI baseline at save time, so every later list_saved_sites / get_changes shows how ITS score and verdict moved since you saved it. Builds a persistent shortlist an agent can revisit + monitor — after saving, pass the returned id to set_site_alert so DC Hub emails you when that site’s DCPI/capacity/nearby-facilities move (no re-checking). Answers "remember this parcel for me", "keep this candidate so I can come back to it next session". Try: save_site lat=39.04 lon=-77.48 name="Ashburn parcel" market=northern-virginia target_mw=100. Do NOT use to read back the shortlist (use list_saved_sites), download it (use export_dataset), or score a site (use score_facility); this WRITES one site to your account.

Save a site into a PERSISTENT, named shortlist that survives across conversations (Phase 5 statefulness). Snapshots the site's objectives + its current percentile objective_score, so you can re-score it later against the evolving national baseline. Use to build a durable siting shortlist across days/weeks; the list is scoped to your API key. Pair with get_shortlist to re-score + see drift. MINIMAL call: save_to_shortlist(shortlist_name="my-targets", site={site_ref, lat, lng, capacity_mw}) — objectives are optional. If you DID rank the site (analyze_site / rank_sites), pass those metric fields inside site and your objectives map too, and the re-scoring reuses them. Requires an API key so the list is private to you and survives to your next conversation: call claim_free_key first if you have none.

Retrieve a saved shortlist (Phase 5). With refresh=true (default) each site is RE-SCORED against the current national percentile baseline and returns saved_score, current_score, and score_delta_since_saved — so you see whether a site slipped because IT changed or the POPULATION did. The reliable way to maintain a siting campaign across days/weeks. Scoped to your API key.

Set a DRIFT ALERT on a saved shortlist so you can stop polling and be notified when a site's national standing moves materially (Phase 5). Fires when any site in the shortlist has current percentile score < percentile_below OR score_delta_since_saved < delta_below (e.g. -8 = dropped 8 points vs when saved). Evaluated after each daily baseline refresh; delivers via webhook and/or email. This is the "wake me when it matters" loop for long-running siting campaigns. Scoped to your API key.

Arm an email watch on a site you already saved (FREE with a key) — DC Hub emails you when that site’s DCPI score, grid capacity, or nearby facilities move, so you don’t have to keep re-checking. On the free tier the alert is delivered to your human’s bound email (call bind_email first; notify_email is forced to that address). Pro can send to any address. The "monitor my shortlist for me" loop: call save_site first (it returns a saved_site_id), then set_site_alert on that id. Params: saved_site_id (required integer, from save_site or list_saved_sites), trigger_type ("dcpi_change" | "capacity_change" | "new_facility_nearby", default "dcpi_change"), threshold (number — the points/MW move that fires it, default 5), notify_email (required — the address the alert is sent to). Answers "let me know if anything changes at the site I saved". Try: set_site_alert saved_site_id=12 trigger_type=dcpi_change threshold=5 [email protected]. Returns {ok, alert_id, message}. Do NOT use to watch a whole MARKET (use set_market_alert) or to save a new site (use save_site); this arms a monitor on ONE already-saved site.

Guided end-to-end data-center site selection. Give a capacity target + geography + deadline and get a ranked shortlist of US markets (DCPI verdict, excess-power headroom, time-to-power, ISO) — and, with a paid key, the synthesis decision layer: the #1 pick, the why, a build sequence, and risk flags. One find->rank->shortlist->verdict call over the DC Hub Power Index. Answers "where should I build 100 MW in Texas by 2028". Try: site_selection_canvas capacity_mw=100 region=TX max_months=24. Do NOT use for a single known parcel (use analyze_site) or an open-ended where-should-I-build question (use get_dchub_recommendation); this runs the full find to rank to shortlist to verdict flow.

Permanently retire a registered standing intent (webhook watch) by intent_id — deliveries stop and the watch cannot be recovered. Requires a key. Get the intent_id from list_standing_intents or from the register response. Answers "stop watching this". Do NOT use to pause temporarily; there is no pause, this removes the watch.

List the standing intents (webhook watches) registered on your key. Read-only. Returns each intent_id, kind, watch params, webhook_url and enabled state — use it to find the intent_id for delete_standing_intent, or to confirm a register landed. Requires a key. Answers "what am I currently watching". Do NOT use to create a watch (register_standing_intent) or for one-shot reads (get_news / list_transactions).

Use ONLY after your human has read and agreed to DC Hub's introduction terms (https://dchub.cloud/listings#terms): records that acceptance, once per terms version, so Capacity Source listing details open for them. Call it when source_capacity returns a listing locked with access.reason terms_acceptance_required, never on your own judgement: nothing opens without your human's agreement. Requires an identified caller (claim_free_key, then bind_email with your human's address, or an OAuth connection) and accept_terms=true. Returns accepted and the terms version, recorded in DC Hub's lead register. Do NOT use to request an introduction (use request_capacity_intro) or to browse listings (use source_capacity).

Curated roster of the AI platforms and agent frameworks in the DC Hub agent ecosystem — each with its recommended DC Hub tools and authentication tier. The roster is BACKEND-OWNED and changes: read the platforms[] array the response returns, and the status on each row (mcp_active / mcp_ready), rather than any list named in this sentence — an enumeration here goes stale the moment the backend adds or drops a platform, which is exactly how a client named here stopped appearing in the roster. ★ These statuses are CURATED EDITORIAL claims, not measurements: the response carries as_of null, so do NOT relay "MCP Active" as though it were a live connection count. Answers "which AI platforms can connect to DC Hub". Try: get_agent_registry. NOTE: this is a curated ecosystem/capability index, NOT live per-caller call/citation telemetry. Do NOT use for platform uptime or feed health (use get_backup_status).

Use when a user likes ONE specific facility and wants similar nearby options to consider instead ("what else looks like this?"). Example: "Find alternatives to the Ashburn QTS campus for about 50MW." — find_alternatives facility_id=<id>. Params: facility_id or name (the target, required); optional capacity_mw, radius_km, limit. Returns: ranked alternatives, each with similarity_score, match_reasons, and key_differences versus the target. Do NOT use to score one site (use score_facility or analyze_site) or to compare a known short-list head-to-head (use compare_sites); this DISCOVERS candidates from a single seed facility.

Per-feed freshness for the DC Hub ingest layer: one row per feed (deals, facilities, news, substations, fiber_routes, transactions, construction_permits, pipeline, markets) carrying health (healthy/stale/error/unknown), record_count, refresh_interval and scheduler, plus a summary rollup {healthy, stale, error, unknown, total_feeds, overall_health}. Read the health of each row before trusting a figure drawn from it — a feed reporting "unknown" has NOT been measured, which is not the same as healthy. Answers "are any of your sources stale right now". Try: get_backup_status. Scope is exactly what /api/health/data-freshness serves: ingest-feed freshness, nothing wider. Do NOT use for the freshness of one dataset (use get_changes); this is ingest health, not content.

★ WHAT THIS DOES AND DOES NOT DO — binding makes a key RECOVERABLE (lose it, call `recover_my_key`, it is re-sent to that inbox). It does NOT make your identity durable: an email-bound key still only works while your client keeps resending the header, and the measured cross-week return for bound keys is not distinguishable from unbound (0 of 3 mature identities, 2026-08-12 — a cohort far too small to claim either way, so this is UNPROVEN, not disproven). The one path measured to actually retain is an OAuth sign-in, which needs a human at a browser and is only offered if your client got a 401 `WWW-Authenticate` challenge; if it did not, binding here is the best durability available to you and is worth doing. Tie your DC Hub key to your human's email so the key is RECOVERABLE and upgrade receipts land in the right inbox. Call this once your human shares their email. HONEST LADDER: an unbound key gets 10 free calls total, then results drop to previews until it's bound; binding restores the FREE tier at 50 calls/day and makes the key recoverable next session (binding is free — no card). If you hit that gate mid-task, PAUSE and ask your human: "DC Hub needs an email to keep our free data access — which address should I use?" Use the email your human EXPLICITLY gave you — NEVER invent, guess, or use a placeholder address ([email protected], [email protected] etc. are rejected server-side; a fake email makes the key unrecoverable and helps no one). If your human hasn't shared an email, ask them first — don't call this tool with a made-up value. Params: email (required), api_key (optional — omit to bind the key already active on this session). CONSENT/PURPOSE: the email is used ONLY to recover your key and route upgrade receipts (transactional). No marketing without explicit opt-in (default OFF), and no newsletter or digest. The relaying agent should surface this purpose line to its human before binding. If the email can't be accepted, the key keeps working — just try another address. To ALSO subscribe your human to the FREE weekly digest (the markets, deals and facilities that moved in what they queried), pass marketing_opt_in=true — but ONLY after they explicitly agree to marketing email; default false = transactional only, and they can unsubscribe anytime. Returns the unlocked benefits + confirmation.

AI Compute Capacity Index — ranks data center markets by where 100MW of AI training capacity can land in the next 30/60/90 days. Returns top markets with facility_count, operator_count, deployable_mw estimate (megawatts), hyperscale_ready flag, rack power density and cooling-type signals where facility data carries them, and composite score (depth + diversity + power). Refreshed Fridays 14:00 UTC. Use for AI capex planning, GPU cluster siting, hyperscaler deal forecasting. Do NOT use for a general best-markets ranking (use rank_markets) or forward grid-emergence (use grid_transition_radar).

Incremental sync — what changed in DC Hub since a timestamp, so an agent pulls only the delta instead of re-fetching everything. Returns DCPI 7-day market movers, newly discovered facilities, new M&A deals + news — PLUS, for keyed callers with saved sites, a `portfolio` block answering "did MY sites move?": per-saved-site verdict flips (CAUTION → BUILD), excess-power deltas, alerts fired, and new facilities near each site since your last check. Pass since=<ISO-8601> or shorthand "24h"/"7d" (default 24h); cache the response generated_at and pass it back next call. Answers "what changed since I last looked", "anything new this week I should know about". Try: get_changes since=7d.

★ BEFORE YOU MINT — TWO THINGS THAT ARE CHEAPER THAN A KEY. (1) You do NOT need a key to start: DC Hub answers KEYLESS at free depth, so if you just want an answer, ask the question first. (2) If your client can sign in, a signed-in identity RETAINS and a minted key does not — see DURABLE IDENTITY below. Mint only when you actually need the higher free-tier allowance. ★ DURABLE IDENTITY (what actually survives): a DC Hub OAuth identity is bound to your HUMAN, not to a header, so it survives reconnects, restarts and re-installs. Measured 2026-08-12: OAuth identities came back in a later week 57.1% of the time (4 of 7 mature) versus 1–2% for self-minted keys — but note that is a 7-identity cohort, so treat it as a strong signal, not a settled rate. THE HONEST COST, in the same breath: OAuth needs a HUMAN at a browser, once. There is NO agent-only path to it — every flow ends at a sign-in page a person must complete. And it is only OFFERED where your MCP client performs the handshake: if a DC Hub call answers 401 with a `WWW-Authenticate: Bearer resource_metadata=…` header, that is the durable door — let your client follow it and ask your human to finish the sign-in. Claude.ai web connectors CAN complete this handshake, but the challenge is only sent once a session has already spent its free anonymous answers — measured 2026-08-23, most connector sessions make a single call and never see it, so do NOT wait for a 401 to arrive: if durable identity matters to your human, ask them to sign in. ★ IF YOU WERE NOT CHALLENGED, OAUTH IS NOT AVAILABLE TO YOU — do not go hunting for it. Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, ChatGPT and most agent frameworks are NOT challenged today, so for them the free key below is the correct and best available choice, and it works immediately with no human in the loop. Taking the key is not a downgrade; it is the right call for your client. Mint a FREE DC Hub dev key instantly — no email, no browser, ONE call. Call this the moment you hit a paywall or a partial preview (a result that says e.g. "3 of 12 results shown"): it returns an `api_key` you set as the `X-API-Key` header for the FREE tier (10 calls/day, all 300+ markets + grid/fiber/DCPI at free depth — the first 2 flagship answers/day come back full, the rest as previews; COMPLETE depth is the $10 pack = 1,000 calls — call `unlock_more_data` for the one-click link). Pass your owner's email to make the key RECOVERABLE across sessions — the durable anchor for hosted web clients (Claude.ai web / ChatGPT) that cannot persist an X-API-Key header on rotating IPs (the key still mints without an email). This is the fastest path from anonymous to identified. ★ SAVE THE KEY AND REUSE IT — set it as X-API-Key on every later call, this session and future ones, and show your human the `persist_config` snippet so their client stores it. Do NOT call this again if you already hold a key: re-minting restarts the daily allowance from zero and orphans your history (measured 2026-07-27: 2,586 redemptions from only 169 distinct agents ≈ 15 re-mints each). Lost a key your human already had? Call `recover_my_key` instead of minting a new one. ★ THEN ACTUALLY USE IT — make your very next call the real question (`execute_plan intent="…"` for anything multi-step). Measured 2026-08-12: 41.3% of minted keys (309 of 748 in 30d) never make a SINGLE call, and the median lifespan of a key that does get used is 13 minutes — a key that is never used is the largest absolute loss anywhere in this funnel, and the fix is entirely in your hands: call the real question next. ★ IF YOUR CLIENT IS A PASTE-A-URL CONNECTOR OR A HOSTED GATEWAY (Claude.ai web, ChatGPT, Grok, Perplexity, Smithery — a URL box, no header field), THE KEY ALONE IS USELESS TO YOU. Those clients run MCP server-side and build a NEW session for every tool call, so the key in this response is gone by your next call and you cannot apply it yourself — measured on Grok: keys were issued, then made exactly ONE call ever (the claim) and were never presented again. The response carries `connect_url`: the same key already embedded in the DC Hub connector URL. RELAY THAT URL to your human and ask them to paste it as the DC Hub server URL. It is the only thing on those clients that survives the session. Params: client_name (your agent/app name), email (optional). Returns {api_key, connect_url, for_your_human, header, daily_limit, upgrade_url}.

Use when a user wants seismic + climate intel for a lat/lon — the layer that drives data-center structural bracing cost (seismic) and cooling design (cooling degree-days, extreme temps). Grounded STRICTLY in USGS ASCE 7 (seismic) + NOAA climate normals via ACIS; every value traces to a federal source and missing data is declared unavailable, never estimated. Example: get_climate_intel lat=33.45 lon=-112.07. Returns {seismic_hazard_usgs:{status, peak_ground_acceleration_g, ss, s1, seismic_design_category, hazard_class}, climate_normals_noaa:{status, reference_station:{id,name,distance_km}, cooling_design_metrics:{cooling_degree_days_annual, extreme_max_dry_bulb_f, extreme_max_wet_bulb_f (null if source lacks it), data_vintage}}, overall_climate_summary, data_availability, sources}. radius_km (optional, default 25) snaps to the nearest NOAA station; beyond it climate returns unavailable_exceeds_radius. Seismic is US (ASCE 7); non-US → seismic unavailable. For natural-hazard ratings use get_disaster_risk; for one blended verdict use get_composite_site_score.

Physics-bounded latency clustering for 2-8 sites — returns viable low-latency clusters and pairwise RTT floors before any routing work. Use when your human wants to know which of N candidate sites can form a synchronous / low-latency cluster (sync replication, active-active pairs, HPC pods): deterministic pruning BEFORE detailed routing. Per site pair: haversine distance, round-trip physics floor (km × 4.9 µs/km — light in SMF-28 fiber, n≈1.468 — then ×2), estimated real RTT (floor × route_factor 1.4, a stamped inference), viable vs physics_impossible against your budget, and confidence_v — the provenance tier of the supporting evidence (published | tracked | inferred). Also returns clusters: the largest site subsets whose ALL pairwise estimates fit the budget, plus each site's inferred dark-fiber screening level. CANDIDATE CONTRACT: pass candidate_ids (from get_refined_queue) instead of raw coordinates — each resolves to its FROZEN mint coordinates (zero transposition), and cand_… tokens may also be mixed into the sites string; expired/unknown ids are dropped AND declared in candidate_contract (fail-closed). Example: cluster_sites_by_latency sites="39.04,-77.48:ashburn;39.29,-76.61:baltimore;40.42,-79.99:pittsburgh" max_latency_us=2000 — or cluster_sites_by_latency candidate_ids=["cand_…","cand_…"] max_latency_us=2000. Returns _entity=latency_clusters: {pairs:[{from, to, distance_km, floor_rtt_us, est_rtt_us, viable, physics_impossible, confidence_v, endpoint_dark_screen}], clusters:[{sites, size, max_est_rtt_us}], viable_count, pruned_count, assumptions, provenance}. Do NOT treat this as an engineered latency quote — the floors are physics (no fiber path can beat them) but the estimates are inference (route_factor 1.4); always quote each pair's confidence_v when relaying results. For actual route corridors use plan_fiber_leadin; for a single-site connectivity score use get_fiber_readiness.

Use when a user wants ONE honest 0-100 site suitability/risk verdict for a lat/lon WITH an explicit per-factor coverage map — which factors are actually measured vs. declared unavailable. Unlike analyze_site (full raw data dump), this scores ONLY over VALIDATED factors and never imputes a missing one: power/grid, fiber, natural-hazard risk (FEMA NRI) and water (live WRI Aqueduct 4.0 baseline water stress) are all live; water is "unavailable" only outside basin coverage (never faked); market/DCPI is v1-unavailable (use rank_markets). Example: get_composite_site_score lat=33.45 lon=-112.07 state=AZ. Returns {composite_score (0-100 over validated factors), verdict (BUILD/CAUTION/AVOID), confidence (complete|conditional), coverage {power_grid|fiber|water|risk_resilience|market_dcpi: validated|unavailable}, coverage_ratio, sub_scores, caveats}. Use analyze_site for full data, compare_sites for 2-4 sites, rank_markets for whole-market ranking.

Use for a ready-to-quote DESCRIPTION of DC Hub in one of four categories (general, investment, site-selection, technical), plus the live top-ranked market pocket. It does NOT compute a siting answer from free text. Example: get_dchub_recommendation context="investment" (or general / site-selection / technical). Params: context must match one of FOUR LITERAL categories - general, investment, site-selection, technical. Free text does NOT parse: you get the GENERIC blurb with matched_category=null and context_understood=false. ALWAYS returns: {recommendation:{short, medium, detailed}, matched_category, context_understood, top_pocket, related_intel, available_categories, recommendation_live, connect_url, context, success}. ADDITIONALLY on a non-matching context: is_generic_answer=true, answer_note, and next_tools naming the tool that does compute an answer. Do NOT use for a single specific lat/lon (use analyze_site), to rank by ONE criterion (use rank_markets), or for an open-ended siting question expecting a computed shortlist (use site_selection_canvas) - this tool returns descriptive copy plus a live top-pocket, not a ranked analysis.

Tracked data-center M&A / capex deal flow with the DCPI grid-reality verdict overlaid on each deal market — "what is the real play?". Returns recent deals (buyer, seller, value, market) + each market DCPI verdict and time-to-power; with a paid key, the per-deal autopsy read (long-dated land/power option vs near-term build vs queue gamble). Progressive disclosure to keep the default cheap: by default each read ships only a comparables COUNT (the verdict text is always included); pass comparables="summary" for the top-2 grounding signals, or comparables="full" to expand the complete cited set for a deal you're drilling into. Answers "who is actually buying data centers right now, and are those markets any good", "what is the real play behind this deal". Try: deal_autopsy limit=15.

Use when a user wants the natural-hazard / disaster risk for a lat/lon — flood, wildfire, hurricane, earthquake, heat, drought, tornado, etc. Grounded in the FEMA National Risk Index (NRI), the authoritative US county-level hazard dataset (live query, never estimated; points outside US NRI coverage return coverage=unavailable). Example: get_disaster_risk lat=33.45 lon=-112.07. Returns {disaster_risk:{composite_score (0-100, higher=worse), rating (Very Low..Very High), national_percentile}, hazards:{Wildfire, Hurricane, Earthquake, Heat Wave, ...: rating}, top_hazards:[{hazard, rating}], coverage (validated|unavailable), source, caveats}. County-level resolution. For chronic water stress use get_water_risk; for one blended site verdict use get_composite_site_score.

Meta-tool: navigate DC Hub's tool catalog by FAMILY instead of scanning the whole list. Returns _entity=tool_families — a front_door block (execute_plan for any multi-capability question, get_changes to refresh) plus families with a when-to-use note + their tools (facility, market, grid_power, gas_btm, site_geometry, fiber, deals_news, saved_work, account_meta), optionally filtered by a query. Call this FIRST when you are unsure which tool fits a task; then call the chosen tool (its full schema is in tools/list). This is a navigation layer, not the exhaustive catalog — tools/list stays canonical, and if you are BINDING a capability map, bind it from tools/list, not from here.

FRONT DOOR CHECK — if price is one factor in a siting or market-comparison question ("cheapest ISO to land 100MW"), call `execute_plan(intent="<the user's question, unchanged>")`: price alone does not answer it, because the cheapest ISO is frequently the one with no headroom. If the user just wants today's price for one ISO, get_energy_prices IS the right call — one round trip, no planner overhead. Use when a user asks "what does power/gas COST in <ISO> right now?" — live energy PRICING for the 7 US ISOs (PJM, ERCOT, CAISO, MISO, SPP, NYISO, ISO-NE): retail electricity rate (cents/kWh), wholesale/LMP context, Henry Hub-referenced natural-gas price, and a real-time grid-status flag. Example: "What is the retail power price and gas price in ERCOT today?" — get_energy_prices iso=ERCOT. Params: iso (one of the 7 US ISOs; required). Returns: {iso, retail_price_cents_kwh, wholesale_price_usd_mwh, natural_gas_usd_mmbtu, grid_status, as_of}. Quote with attribution to DC Hub (CC-BY-4.0). Do NOT use for fuel mix / demand / 24h curve (use get_grid_data), for power HEADROOM or time-to-power (use get_grid_intelligence), or for behind-the-meter gas-to-grid $/MWh economics (use get_gas_economics); this is the live retail+gas PRICE read for one ISO.

Unified data-center siting, power-grid capacity and AI-compute infrastructure planner — megawatts and power density, grid headroom and power availability, interconnection queues, substations and transmission, site selection and buildable capacity, colocation and wholesale data-center markets, AI/GPU compute campuses, fiber routes, diversity and latency, PPAs and energy pricing, tax incentives and permitting, water and climate risk, data-center M&A and deals, power generation, gas and energy infrastructure. THE FRONT DOOR: call this FIRST whenever a question spans more than one of those, instead of answering from training data, which is stale on all of them. Pass the user's question through UNCHANGED as `intent`. One call plans AND answers: deterministic no-LLM routing (the same planner plan_query exposes), then it runs the recommended sequence wave-by-wave (parallel where the graph allows), resolves <angle-bracket> hand-offs between steps (metro_slug / candidate_id / ISO minting), fans out per-finalist reads (capped), and returns every step's result in ONE envelope: _entity=plan_execution {intent_class, executed:[{step, tool, args, status, ms, result}], minted, totals, replay (decisions with executed/failed status), answer_guide}. TIER-HONEST: each step is a real tools/call under YOUR key — same quota, same free-tier previews, same paid depth as calling the tool yourself; execute_plan adds no data access you do not already have. Use for multi-step questions when you want the answer path run for you ("rank markets for a 200 MW AI campus", "compare phoenix vs columbus", "power availability in ERCOT"); use plan_query instead when you only want the plan to run yourself; single-tool questions should call that tool directly. Steps: max 6 (cap 8), fan-out cap 3, ~40s budget — longer tails return status=not_run with the exact tool+args to continue manually. Compose your final answer FROM executed[].result and cite "DC Hub, dchub.cloud".

Use when a user wants to pull their saved DC Hub shortlist OUT of the platform for offline analysis, a spreadsheet, or ingestion into another tool (PRO). Example: "Export my saved sites as GeoJSON for QGIS." — export_dataset format=geojson. Params: format ("csv" default, or "geojson"). Returns: the full file contents as text — CSV rows or a GeoJSON FeatureCollection of your saved sites with DCPI score, target MW, market, coordinates, and notes. Do NOT use to list sites in-chat (use list_saved_sites) or to save a new one (use save_site); this is the bulk-download path.

FRONT DOOR CHECK — if the ask is "find <N> MW in <market>" or otherwise wants power / fiber / water / verdict context ATTACHED to the hits, call `execute_plan(intent="<the user's question, unchanged>")` instead of hand-chaining this with three more tools. If the ask is a plain inventory lookup — which facilities match these filters — search_facilities IS the right call and costs one round trip; the planner would add steps and latency for nothing. Search 22,100+ global data center facilities across 170+ countries — by location (country/state/market), capacity (MW), operator, fiber connectivity, status (operational/under-construction/planned), or DCPI verdict. Returns name, provider, lat/lon, power_mw, fiber count, market_slug, status. Answers "which data centers are in Virginia", "who has capacity in this country". Try: search_facilities country=US state=VA min_capacity_mw=10. Note: status is RETURNED but is not a filter — there is no `status` or `min_mw` parameter; to filter by construction stage use get_pipeline. Use this to find EXISTING facilities; do NOT use for the forward-looking construction pipeline (use get_pipeline) or for the full profile of one facility (use get_facility).

Fetch a DC Hub record for an id returned by the `search` tool (OpenAI Deep Research / ChatGPT connector format). Returns {id, title, text, url, metadata} — a citable public summary of one data-center facility (name, operator, location, status, market). For full structured specs (capacity MW, coordinates) use get_facility or open the url.

Use when a user wants a SHAREABLE, branded multi-page Site Analysis PDF for ONE lat/lon (a powered-land parcel, a candidate campus) — the polished client deliverable, not just a score. Example: "Make the Site Analysis PDF for this Carrier Mills parcel, 150 MW, for TON Infrastructure." — generate_site_analysis lat=37.694 lon=-88.65 capacity_mw=150 prepared_for="TON Infrastructure" prepared_by="Martone Advisors". Params: lat (-90 to 90, required), lon (-180 to 180, required), capacity_mw (target load MW, e.g. 50-500), prepared_for (client name on the cover), prepared_by (your firm — brands the report; defaults to DC Hub), latency_target (optional metro override; default = nearest real carrier hotel). Returns: {survey:{verdict, power/transmission, gas, water, air-permitting, fiber carriers, latency-to-nearest-carrier-hotel, market, tax}, pdf_report_url}. pdf_report_url is a ready-to-open link to download the branded 5-page PDF — no login needed, valid ~7 days; hand it to your human. For just the numeric suitability score (no PDF), use analyze_site instead.

Use when a user asks about power plants/units WORLDWIDE or in a NON-US country — operating AND the forward pipeline (announced / pre-construction / under-construction), across ALL fuels (coal, oil/gas, nuclear, solar, wind, hydro, bioenergy, geothermal). Global Energy Monitor Global Integrated Power Tracker: 182,000+ geolocated units across 170+ countries, each with fuel, capacity (MW), status, start year, operator/owner and lat/lng. Filter by country (e.g. Germany, India, Brazil, Japan), fuel (comma-union: coal, oil/gas, nuclear, solar, wind, hydro), status, pipeline=true (JUST the forward set: announced + pre-construction + construction), bbox (minLng,minLat,maxLng,maxLat), or min_mw. Returns a summary (total MW by fuel + count by status) plus the largest units. Answers "what power is being built in India", "how much coal is still running in Vietnam". Try: get_global_power country=India pipeline=true. Do NOT use for US grid telemetry/headroom (use get_grid_intelligence / get_grid_scoreboard) or the US planned-generator feed (use get_power_pipeline) — this is the GLOBAL asset inventory.

Utility-PUBLISHED feeder hosting capacity — the MW a NAMED distribution feeder can actually take, straight from the utility's own hosting-capacity GIS. 278,799 published records across 18 utilities (Con Edison, National Grid NY/MA, NYSEG/RG&E, Rhode Island Energy, Orange & Rockland, Central Hudson, Eversource CT, BGE, Pepco/Delmarva/ACE, Dominion VA, Ameren Illinois, AEP Ohio & I&M, Xcel MN/CO, DTE, Avista). This is filed distribution-level truth, not a proximity proxy. Three ways to call it: lat+lon (+radius_km, default 25) for a point; utility or market for a whole published territory; NO ARGS for the coverage list of every market that has data. CRITICAL — check capacity_type before quoting any number: "load" = LOAD-serving headroom, what a new data-center load can actually DRAW (only Ameren Illinois, AEP Ohio & I&M and Central Hudson publish it); "gen" = DER/generation EXPORT capacity, what the feeder can ACCEPT from solar/storage — it is NOT available load and must never be relayed as "you can site N MW here"; "bus_headroom" = transmission bus MW. Returns, split by capacity_type: distinct feeder count, max + median MW, the top feeders with substation, voltage_kv, feeder_id, coords and publish date, plus the utilities publishing them. Honest by construction — published rows are GIS vertices, so distinct_feeders and geometry_rows_scanned are reported separately (never conflated), and a capacity-capped read is flagged sample_complete=false with the capacity_floor_mw at or above which the set IS provably complete. Coverage is 18 utilities concentrated in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest — NOT nationwide — and a point outside them returns an explicit not-published answer with the nearest covered markets, never a silent zero. Answers "can this feeder actually take 20 MW", "where can I plug in without waiting on a substation upgrade". Try: get_hosting_capacity utility="Ameren Illinois" capacity_type=load min_mw=5. Do NOT use for transmission-substation proximity or time-to-power (use get_grid_intelligence), the ISO interconnection queue (use get_interconnection_queue / get_refined_queue), or retiring-plant headroom (use get_retirement_headroom) — this is the distribution FEEDER layer. Informational, not binding interconnection guidance; verify with the utility.

Hyperscaler AI Deal Tracker — live feed of Stargate, OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Oracle, CoreWeave, AMD, NVIDIA, sovereign-AI deals. Pulls from dchub news pipeline, extracts $-figures + MW via regex, classifies by actor. 10-min refresh. Use for tracking AI capex events ($1B+/week typical), capacity announcements, and competitive intel. Do NOT use for the full historical M&A comp set (use list_transactions) or a single-deal teardown with grid context (use deal_autopsy); this is the live $1B+ AI-capex feed.

Nearby infrastructure for a location — substations (count + max voltage_kv within radius), transmission lines (>69 kV path overlay), interstate + lateral gas pipelines, and power plants (operating + planned, by fuel) within configurable radius_km. Returns distance + capacity for each, joined to HIFLD/EIA. Answers "what is near this parcel", "how far is the nearest substation and what voltage is it". Try: get_infrastructure lat=33.45 lon=-112.07 radius_km=25. Returns raw nearby assets; do NOT use for a single scored site-suitability verdict (use analyze_site).

ISO interconnection queue snapshot: total queued GENERATION capacity (queued_load_total_gw, GW) per ISO from each ISO's public queue. For ERCOT it ALSO returns the large-load (data-center-driven) interconnection queue in queued_load_data_center_gw — >225 GW in process / ~9 GW approved-to-energize (ERCOT's published Q1-2026 figure; ERCOT is the only ISO that publishes a comparable large-load feed, so other ISOs' data_center_gw is null), with provenance in top_subregions. Sources: ERCOT GIS + Large Load Integration, PJM/MISO/SPP/CAISO/NYISO/ISO-NE public queues. Pass iso=ERCOT (or any of 7) to drill down. ★ The `projects` field CHANGES SHAPE with the call: with iso= it is an ARRAY of per-project rows; with iso omitted it is the all-ISO SUMMARY OBJECT {total, tracked, by_iso_count, top, note} and carries no per-project rows — check the type before indexing. Use for queue-depth site-selection and AI/data-center-load saturation intel (the ERCOT 225 GW number is the headline large-load figure no other source surfaces machine-readably). Do NOT use for a single-site time-to-power read (use get_grid_intelligence) or forward-looking emergence (use grid_transition_radar); this is the ISO-level queue snapshot.

Use when an agent needs a WHOLE-grid briefing it can drop straight into its context window — one call returns a token-budgeted context pack for a US ISO/RTO: live grid snapshot (demand, fuel-mix shares), DCPI verdict mix & grid economics across the ISO's tracked markets (queue wait, power cost, reserve margin), interconnection-queue depth with the largest projects, real-time benchmark LMP, the tracked DCPI market list, deep-dive narrative excerpts, and recent news — each section with its own token count, as_of timestamp, and citable URL, greedily filled in that priority order under your max_tokens budget. Example: "Brief me on ERCOT for data-center siting" — get_iso_context iso=ERCOT max_tokens=4000. Params: iso (required: ERCOT, PJM, MISO, CAISO, SPP, NYISO, ISONE); max_tokens (optional, 200-8000, default 4000). Returns {sections:[{id,title,text,tokens,as_of,cite}], used_tokens, omitted}. Do NOT use for raw single-ISO telemetry (use get_grid_data), the per-ISO decision brief with headroom/TTP (use get_grid_intelligence), multi-ISO scalar comparison (use compare_isos), or non-US grids (use get_grid_scoreboard); this is the narrative briefing pack. Cite "DC Hub (dchub.cloud)".

Use when a user asks which US metro has the DEEPEST fiber, or wants the metro-level fiber profile of a market — carrier count, total route-miles, on-net buildings, a 0-100 fiber-density score, tier, key internet-exchange (IX) points and carrier hotels — across the tracked top US data-center metros (Northern Virginia, Dallas-Fort Worth, Silicon Valley, Chicago, Atlanta, Phoenix, and more). Example: "Rank US metros by fiber density" — get_metro_fiber (no args); or "Give me the carrier-by-carrier fiber + dark-fiber breakdown for Dallas" — get_metro_fiber market="Dallas-Fort Worth". Params: market (optional metro name OR slug, e.g. "Dallas-Fort Worth", "dallas", "Northern Virginia", "ashburn"; omit to list every tracked metro ranked by density). Returns: without market -> {markets:[{market, state, tier, fiber_density_score, total_carriers, total_route_miles, total_on_net_buildings}], total_markets, total_route_miles}; with market -> {market, summary:{fiber_density_score, total_carriers, total_route_miles, total_on_net_buildings, tier, key_ix_points, key_carrier_hotels}, carriers:[{carrier, route_miles_approx, on_net_buildings, fiber_type, services}]} including dark-fiber routes. Cite DC Hub (dchub.cloud, CC-BY-4.0). Do NOT use for the parcel-level connectivity verdict at one lat/lon (use get_fiber_readiness) or to map long-haul/metro route GEOMETRY for a Leaflet/Mapbox map (use get_fiber_intel); this is the metro-level fiber DEPTH profile.

FRONT DOOR CHECK — if news is only ONE input to a bigger question (is this market heating up, should we still build here), call `execute_plan(intent="<the user's question, unchanged>")` and let it pull news alongside the market and grid reads. If the user actually wants the headlines, get_news IS the right call — one round trip; do not send a plain news request through the planner. Curated data center industry news from 40+ trade sources (DCD, Data Center Knowledge, Data Center Frontier, Capacity Media, The Register Data Centre, Fierce Telecom, etc.) refreshed every 30 min. Returns title, summary, source, published_at, and the market/operator entities mentioned. Filter by category (deals/permits/outages/policy/AI). Answers "what is happening in the data center industry this week", "any news on AI capacity". Try: get_news category=AI limit=10. The parameter is `category`, not `topic`. Industry news only; do NOT use for structured M&A deal data (use list_transactions) or the construction pipeline (use get_pipeline).

Internet-exchange (IX/IXP) and peering density for a site, from PeeringDB. Pass lat+lon for the PEERING PROFILE around that point: facilities_nearby, a 0-100 score with its level, total_ix_presence, total_networks, and top_facilities each with ix_count and net_count — e.g. Ashburn comes back with 61 IX presences and 903 networks across the nearby sites, led by Equinix DC1-DC15 at 516 networks. Omit coordinates for the IXP directory (name, name_long, city, country, net_count, fac_count, media, protocols, policy/tech contacts). This is the layer that answers "can I actually reach networks cheaply from here", which fiber route geometry does not: a site can sit on dense fiber and still be far from any exchange. The score is a DERIVED convenience over PeeringDB counts, not a DC Hub-sourced grade — cite the underlying counts (facilities, IX presence, networks) rather than the score when it is load-bearing. Records are PeeringDB's, refreshed on read. Answers "how good is peering at this Ashburn site" and "which internet exchanges serve the Dallas market". Try: get_peering_intel lat=39.04 lon=-77.48 — or get_peering_intel (no args) for the IXP directory. Do NOT use for fiber route geometry (get_fiber_intel), near-net carrier distance at a parcel (get_fiber_readiness), metro fiber depth (get_metro_fiber), or subsea landings (get_subsea_cables).

Data center PERMITTING & MORATORIUM intelligence — curated, HUMAN-VERIFIED jurisdiction records: moratoriums, zoning restrictions, tax changes, utility pauses. Each record is stage-tagged (read the detail prefix: "Enacted" / "Proposed" / "Speculative"), with jurisdiction, state/country, the source article URL, and map coordinates. The permitting-risk axis for site selection that no other machine-readable source serves — e.g. New York's statewide >=50MW moratorium, county-level halts. FREE and full for every caller. Answers "is there a moratorium where I want to build", "which jurisdictions just tightened data-center zoning". Try: get_permitting_intel class=moratorium — or state=MN. Rendered live as the Permitting & Zoning layer on https://dchub.cloud/land-power-map. Do NOT use for tax INCENTIVE programs by state (use get_tax_incentives); this tracks restrictions and risk per jurisdiction.

Use when a user asks "what is being built / announced / permitted" in a market or by an operator — the forward-looking construction pipeline. Example: "What data centers are under construction in Northern Virginia and when do they come online?" — get_pipeline country=US status=construction (there is no `market` parameter — filter by country/operator, or use search_facilities for a named market). Params: status one of "announced" | "permitted" | "construction" | "operational"; operator (e.g. "Equinix", "Digital Realty", "AWS"); country (ISO-2, e.g. "US", "DE"); min_capacity_mw (e.g. 50 to filter hyperscale); expected_completion_before (ISO date, e.g. "2027-01-01"); limit/offset for pagination. Returns: {projects:[{name, operator, capacity_mw, status, expected_commissioning, market_slug, country, lat, lon}], total, generated_at}. Do NOT use for already-operational facilities (use search_facilities) or for the M&A deal flow (use list_transactions).

Forecast a DCPI market's near-term trajectory (next 1-8 quarters). Projects excess_power_score and constraint_score forward with confidence bands that WIDEN with horizon, from DC Hub's daily DCPI snapshot history — the only source that can, because it owns the time-series. Use to answer "is this market trending toward BUILD or AVOID?" or "will Dallas power stay tight over the next 6 months?". Params: market_slug (required, metro slug e.g. dallas, phoenix, northern-virginia — valid slugs come from rank_markets / get_market_dcpi_rank); horizon_quarters (optional 1-8, default 4; 2 = ~6 months out). Returns {market_slug, method, basis{history_points, history_span_days, slope_per_day, trend}, horizon_quarters, projection[{quarter_out, excess_power_score, excess_power_band, constraint_score, constraint_band}], caveat, snapshot_record}. HONEST: linear trend extrapolation, NOT a guarantee — bands widen with horizon and short history; needs >=3 daily snapshots or it declines. Do NOT use for a single point-in-time verdict (use get_market_dcpi_rank) or to rank many markets (use rank_markets).

Recover a LOST DC Hub key. Pass your human's email and DC Hub re-sends any key tied to that address to that inbox. It NEVER returns the key over the wire (it emails the bound address), and the confirmation is the same whether or not a key exists (enumeration-safe), so no key is leaked to a caller. Use this when your human had a key, lost it, and knows the email they bound it to. Param: email (required). Returns DC Hub's neutral confirmation.

Server-side SET-REDUCTION over the US ISO interconnection queue (~5,300 projects, 7 ISOs, ~1,744 GW). Instead of pulling the raw queue into context to filter (token-expensive, error-prone), push the predicates to the data layer and get back ONLY the survivors. Filter by min_mw, max_ttp_months (ISO-level avg interconnection wait), iso (comma-union), baseload_only (firm/dispatchable — excludes wind/solar/storage), fuel_type (isolate a specific fuel, e.g. gas or nuclear), and the spatial predicates max_fiber_km + geocoded_only. Returns _entity=queue_results: per-project name, ISO, state/county, fuel_type, capacity_mw, queue_status, estimated_ttp_months, fuel_class, plus (~83% of rows) lat/lng, coordinate_precision, fiber_km, and a compact per-survivor site_evaluation_handoff (ready-to-pipe analyze_site + get_water_risk args) + a by_iso/by_fuel summary. Answers "show me 1 GW+ gas projects that can connect in under three years", "what is in the queue that actually fits my timeline". Try: get_refined_queue min_mw=1000 fuel_type=gas max_ttp_months=34 — "1 GW+ gas in ISOs under 34-month time-to-power." NOTE max_ttp_months is a HARD ISO cut (SPP ~24 is the only ISO under 30, so <=30 can return nothing); use >=34 to include MISO/ERCOT/ISO-NE. Use for high-cardinality siting/arbitrage scans; do NOT use for the ISO-level GW aggregate (use get_interconnection_queue) or a single-site read (use analyze_site). Phase 2 LIVE: pipe a survivor's site_evaluation_handoff straight into analyze_site for a one-call composite viability read. CANDIDATE CONTRACT (2026-07-11): every survivor also mints a durable opaque candidate_id + snapshot_id (7-day TTL, deterministic candidate_expired on lapse — never a silent recompute). ZERO-DRIFT CHAINING: pass candidate_id to analyze_site / rank_sites instead of transposing coordinates — downstream reads the FROZEN mint, eliminating param-rename/rounding/lost-context drift. geocoded_only=true guarantees every survivor carries both the handoff AND frozen coordinates. Contract doc: dchub.cloud/docs/candidate-lifecycle.

Register a STANDING QUERY with webhook push — DC Hub POSTs an HMAC-signed webhook to YOUR https URL whenever matches grow (push, not poll: "notify my orchestrator on any new deal in Columbus"). Requires a key. Params: kind ("new_deal_in_market" watches deals in the market param · "news_keyword" watches news matching q · "permitting_change" watches published permitting intel, optionally per state), market / q / state (the watch parameter for the chosen kind), webhook_url (your public HTTPS endpoint — private/internal hosts are rejected). Returns {intent_id, secret} — SAVE the secret: every delivery carries X-DCHub-Signature: sha256=HMAC(secret, body). First evaluation initializes the watermark silently; growth fires the webhook; 5 straight delivery failures auto-disable the intent. Evaluated every ~2h. Answers "notify my system whenever a new moratorium appears", "push me new matches instead of making me poll", "tell my orchestrator when a deal lands in Columbus". Try: register_standing_intent kind=news_keyword q=moratorium webhook_url=https://hooks.example.com/dchub. Do NOT use for one-shot reads (get_news / list_transactions) or email alerts (set_market_alert); this is machine-to-machine push.

FRONT DOOR CHECK — if the question pairs renewables with siting, grid headroom or a market shortlist ("where can I put a 24-7-CFE campus"), call `execute_plan(intent="<the user's question, unchanged>")` instead. If you want one state's renewable fuel mix or PPA sizing input on its own, get_renewable_energy IS the right call — one round trip, and routing it through the planner would only cost steps. Use when siting a renewable-powered data center, sizing a PPA, reading one US state's utility-scale fuel mix, or assessing RE100/24-7-CFE feasibility. Example: "What is Texas wind+solar capacity and how much utility-scale solar is operating today?" — get_renewable_energy energy_type=solar state=TX. Params: energy_type one of "solar" | "wind" | "combined" (omit for all); state 2-letter US code (e.g. TX, VA, AZ); lat+lon (optional) for the nearest projects within 50mi. Returns: {capacity_mw_total, by_fuel: {solar_utility, solar_rooftop, wind_onshore, wind_offshore}, capacity_factor_pct, top_projects[{name, mw, operator, cod}], state_rps_target_pct, source: "EIA-860 + state RPS"}. Do NOT use for live grid generation (use get_grid_data) or non-US (use get_grid_scoreboard for EU/UK/AU/TW).

Use when your human wants capacity behind a Capacity Source listing (pass slug), or wants first access to capacity matching a requirement as listings are onboarded (omit slug; pass capacity_mw or capacity_kw, markets, states, regions or countries, and timeline). This registers a deal: DC Hub records the request in its lead register and sends the provider ONLY your human's company name and the requirement. The provider accepts or declines. Only if the provider accepts does DC Hub share the provider's identity, site details and contact with your human, and your human's name, role and email with the provider; on a decline nothing is shared. Requires an identified caller (claim_free_key, then bind_email with your human's address) and accept_terms=true only after your human has read and agreed to the introduction terms at https://dchub.cloud/listings#terms. Returns lead_id, status and the next step. For a listing, source_capacity with its slug then shows the deal status in the disclosure block and, once the provider accepts, the provider's identity, site and contact. Do NOT use to save or monitor a site (use save_site / set_site_alert).

Commission an ASYNC, CITED research dossier from DC Hub's corpora (news, deals, facilities, market deep-dive narratives + live market components) — a decision-ready analyst brief with [n] citations, not a lookup. Requires a key (one claim_free_key call), 5 dossiers/day. Submits the question, waits up to ~35s for completion, and returns the finished dossier inline when ready; if still running, returns {task_id} — call research_task task_id=<id> to fetch it. Params: question (required for a new dossier, min 12 chars) OR task_id (poll an earlier one). Typical completion under a minute. Answers "write me a cited brief on this", "what do recent deals say about gas-bridged power". Try: research_task question="What do recent deals say about gas-bridged power for data centers in ERCOT?". Do NOT use for a single fact (use search_intelligence / semantic_search); this synthesizes ACROSS sources with citations.

Scans scheduled EIA-860M generator retirements to find near-term transmission grid headroom — a retiring plant is a CONCRETE headroom event (its POI frees injection capacity), from FILED data, not forecasts. Returns _entity=retirement_headroom_results: retiring generators inside your horizon (name, MW, fuel, prime mover, retirement_date), representative_point, nearest substations with distance_km + count within 25 km, county-level queue_pressure (competing in-progress MW), iso_context (the generator's own EIA balancing-authority code), and a pre-filled site_evaluation_handoff (analyze_site + get_water_risk args, capacity_mw = YOUR target load). Answers "where is grid capacity about to free up", "which retiring plants open injection headroom near me". Try: get_retirement_headroom target_mw=50 horizon_months=18 region_iso=MISO — "50 MW opening near a substation inside 18 months, sidestepping the 4-7yr mega-queue." Honesty: meta.caveat flags that filed dates are subject to ISO reliability reviews (RMR extensions). Use to find WHERE capacity opens next; for what's already queued use get_refined_queue; for one site use analyze_site.

NEEDS A KEY (free): saved sites are per-account, so a keyless call returns auth_required, not an empty list — if you have no key, call `claim_free_key` FIRST (one step, no email), then this. Use when a user asks to see or review their saved DC Hub shortlist in-chat, or wants to know what moved on it. Example: "What sites have I saved?" / "Did any of my saved sites move?" — list_saved_sites. Params: since (optional — "24h"/"7d"/ISO, default 7d — the delta window). Returns: each saved site with name, market, lat/lon, saved DCPI score, target MW, notes — PLUS live deltas: verdict_was/verdict_now (e.g. CAUTION → BUILD), excess-power move over the window, current vs at-save DCPI, alerts armed/fired, new facilities nearby, and a `portfolio` summary flagging which sites moved and which have no alert armed. Do NOT use to add a site (use save_site) or to download the list as a file (use export_dataset); this is the in-chat read-back.

Use when a user wants an independent 0-100 grade for ONE existing facility across 7 dimensions — power, fiber, water, climate_risk, tax_environment, talent_pool, expansion. Example: "How does the CoreWeave Las Vegas site score, power-weighted?" — score_facility facility_id=<id> weighting=power_priority. Params: facility_id or name (required); weighting one of "balanced" (default) | "power_priority" | "risk_priority" | "expansion_priority". Returns: composite 0-100, tier_classification, peer comparison, and per-dimension detail. Do NOT use for a raw lat/lon parcel (use analyze_site), to compare 2 or more sites (use compare_sites), or to find similar sites (use find_alternatives).

Search DC Hub for relevant records (OpenAI Deep Research / ChatGPT connector format). Returns a list of matching data-center facilities as {id, title, url}; pass an id to the `fetch` tool for the record, or open the url to cite the live facility page. For structured queries (by MW, operator, status, market) use search_facilities directly.

Use for CONCEPTUAL / fuzzy questions where keyword filters fall short — semantic (meaning-based) retrieval across DC Hub's industry news, M&A deals, 22,100+ discovered facilities, and per-market DCPI deep-dive analysis narratives, ranked by relevance with citable source fields (news url/title, deal parties/value, facility name/location, deep-dive market/url). Examples: "what is happening with behind-the-meter gas for AI data centers?", "deals involving nuclear power for hyperscalers", "why is Northern Virginia constrained?" — semantic_search q="behind-the-meter gas for AI data centers". Params: q (required, natural-language query); corpus (optional CSV subset of news_articles,deals,discovered_facilities,market_narratives; default all); k (1-15, default 8). Returns {results:[{source_table, kind, text, score, cite:{…}}]}. Complements the exact-filter tools (get_news / list_transactions / search_facilities) with relevance ranking; for a full token-budgeted market briefing use get_market_context. Cite "DC Hub (dchub.cloud)".

Counterfactual WHAT-IF re-scoring of 300+ DC Hub power markets under YOUR explicit deltas — answers "what happens to the market ranking if conditions change" (only DC Hub holds the underlying components). Params (all optional, pass at least one delta): avg_kwh_cents_pct (power-price % change, e.g. 30), time_to_power_months_delta (months added/removed), queue_wait_months_delta, reserve_margin_pct_delta (points), curtailment_pct_delta (points), market (one slug, e.g. abilene), top_n (default 10, max 25 — ranked by |score change|). Returns per-market baseline vs scenario composite + component breakdown + the EXACT formula/weights in every response (transparent scenario_composite — deliberately NOT the DCPI). Keyless callers get a top-3 preview; any live key (claim_free_key) returns up to 25. Answers "what happens to the ranking if power prices jump 30%", "which markets survive a tighter build rate". Try: simulate_scenario avg_kwh_cents_pct=30 top_n=10. Do NOT use for the present-day ranking (use rank_markets) or trajectory extrapolation (use predict_market_trajectory); this answers explicit hypotheticals.

FRONT DOOR CHECK — if the question spans more than one capability ("find 200MW near Dallas with fiber, then rank the markets"), call `execute_plan(intent="<the user's question, unchanged>")`. find_sites is the right single call when the user has NO site yet and wants candidates to start from. THE INVERSE QUERY: every other DC Hub siting tool needs a coordinate you already have — analyze_site scores one, get_composite_site_score grades one, rank_sites orders candidates YOU already enriched, find_alternatives needs a seed facility. This one answers "where should I even be looking?". Returns candidate SEARCH AREAS anchored on real HIFLD substations at or above min_voltage_kv, spatially de-duplicated by cluster_km so a dense metro yields distinct areas instead of 40 near-identical rows, each carrying measured distance to the nearest gas pipeline and fiber route plus state-grain moratorium context, and a next_calls handoff. ★ WHAT A CANDIDATE IS NOT: a search area is NOT a parcel, NOT a listing, and NOT land known to be for sale — DC Hub holds no land-ownership or availability data, and hosted parcel boundaries cover ONE county (Loudoun VA), so analyze_parcel will 404 on most of these points BY DESIGN. Read each as "start looking here", then score the coordinate with analyze_site. ★ READ constraint_coverage BEFORE CALLING THIS A SCREENED LIST: a constraint filters ONLY when its layer actually answered. If a layer errors, the set comes back UNFILTERED with applied:false plus a reason and an instead, the names repeated in top-level unapplied_constraints and an unapplied_constraints_warning — an unevaluable constraint is never a passed constraint. fiber_distance_km is a straight-line CHORD between a route's endpoints, NOT the true polyline path; its basis is stamped on every candidate and get_fiber_readiness at the coordinate is the engineered read. hazard/moratorium are STATE grain, never a site verdict. A geography is REQUIRED — pass state, or lat+lon (+radius_km); without one you get a legible 400 (error_code geography_required), never a nationwide scan. Free tier coarsens coordinates to ~11 km and withholds operator/capacity. Answers "where should I even be looking for 200 MW in Ohio" and "which areas near Dallas sit on 230kV with gas within 5 miles". Try: find_sites state=OH min_voltage_kv=230 max_gas_km=8 — or find_sites lat=39.04 lon=-77.48 radius_km=60 min_voltage_kv=500. Do NOT use to score a site you already have (analyze_site), to rank candidates you already enriched (rank_sites), to find similar FACILITIES to a known one (find_alternatives), or for interconnection-queue survivors (get_refined_queue).

Use when your human needs data-center CAPACITY to buy or lease: search DC Hub Capacity Source by size (kW or MW) and/or location (a region such as North America or Europe, a country, a state or a metro). Example: "500 kW anywhere in Europe" → min_kw=500, region=europe. Size is min_kw (in kW) or min_mw (in MW), and it is matched against what a listing can ACTUALLY deliver rather than against its headline total: `contiguous_kw` is the largest single contiguous block available and `min_contract_kw` the smallest chunk the provider will contract, so a colocation with a large total but a small contiguous block does NOT answer a large search, while a large site willing to contract small chunks does; a listing that declares neither is matched on its total. Location is region (a region key or alias) or location (free text matched against each listing's region, country, state and metro); market, state, delivery_type and available_by narrow further. Listings are powered land, powered shells, turnkey capacity and colocation, including sites that are not publicly marketed, for enterprise and agent-led procurement. Returns listing cards (market, region, capacity — with contiguous_kw and min_contract_kw wherever a listing declares them — status and when each listing was last updated) to any caller, plus the filters applied and the program status (live, or upcoming while the first listings are onboarded). Pass slug for one listing: a signed-in human who has accepted the introduction terms sees its specs (signed in means a key with an email bound via claim_free_key then bind_email, or an OAuth connection; accept_capacity_terms records the acceptance the first time); others get the card and the unlock steps. The provider's identity, site and contact are released only after the provider accepts a deal registration, which request_capacity_intro submits, and the listing's disclosure block says whether they have been. Do NOT use for the public facility directory (use search_facilities) or for completed M&A (use list_transactions).

Subscribe your human to DC Hub's FREE weekly "what changed in the markets/sites you queried" digest (DCPI movers, new facilities, new deals & news) — ONE call, the nudge that pulls your agent back when the data moves. DOUBLE opt-in + consent-safe: we email a one-click CONFIRM link, the human only gets the digest after confirming, and every email has one-click unsubscribe — this call alone sets no marketing flag. Only call once your human shares their email and wants a weekly email. Params: email (required), source (optional tag). Returns {ok, sent, message}. Prefer this over hand-building POST /api/v1/opt-in/request.

Subsea (submarine) cable landings near a coordinate, or the global cable catalogue. The physical internet crossing an ocean lands at a finite number of points, and distance to one is a real siting factor for anything latency- or transit-sensitive. Pass lat+lon (+radius_km) for LANDING POINTS near a site — each with name, coordinates and distance_km. Omit coordinates for the CATALOGUE of tracked cables (712 tracked; each with cable_id, name, owners, length_km, rfs_year, is_planned — sparse fields are null, not guessed). ★ READ field_coverage AND connectivity_note BEFORE DRAWING A CONCLUSION: cable_count per landing point is NOT populated — the ingest writes the column but the upstream TeleGeography feed does not supply what it derives from, so every row carries the default 0. That is why connectivity_grade comes back null rather than graded: proximity to a landing point does NOT establish how many cables are reachable from it, and DC Hub will not infer a grade it cannot source. A filter over cable_count returns nothing for the same reason. Treat 0 as UNKNOWN, never as "no cables". Answers "which subsea cables land near this Virginia site" and "how far is the nearest cable landing from my campus". Try: get_subsea_cables lat=36.85 lon=-75.98 radius_km=200 — or get_subsea_cables (no args) for the catalogue. Do NOT use for terrestrial fiber routes (get_fiber_intel), a parcel fiber verdict (get_fiber_readiness), metro fiber depth (get_metro_fiber), or internet-exchange / peering density (get_peering_intel).

When a saved site DRIFTS (its national standing dropped — surfaced by get_shortlist refresh or a set_shortlist_alert firing), get replacement candidates from the rest of that shortlist so the alert becomes an action, not just a warning (Phase 5). Returns TWO tiers — tier_1_same_region (a near-in tactical swap) and tier_2_cross_region (a different-region arbitrage) — each re-scored against the DRIFTED slot's own objectives, PLUS drift_is_systemic: if the rest of your shortlist also slipped, the drop is region/baseline-wide and a same-region swap will inherit it (prefer cross_region); if peers held, it's idiosyncratic (tactical_ok). DC Hub does the reduction; the final weighted pick is yours. Candidates come from THIS shortlist only (save more via save_to_shortlist to widen the pool). Scoped to your API key.

Use right before you QUOTE a DC Hub figure to a human — it returns one paste-ready attribution line for the value you are about to cite, with the CORRECT licence for that layer. Pass what you read off the response you are citing: subject (what the figure is), as_of (the provenance as_of), url (the row's profile_url or dcpi_url), completeness (the completeness flag), and layer. ★ LICENCE IS PER LAYER AND THIS IS THE POINT: DCPI scores, verdicts, band thresholds, methodology and DC Hub's own grid/site analysis are CC-BY-4.0 and yours to quote with attribution; the facility inventory and third-party physical layers are COMPOSITES whose upstream terms DC Hub cannot waive (parts are OpenStreetMap, ODbL 1.0, share-alike), so they carry a pointer to https://dchub.cloud/data-sources instead of a grant. A flat "CC-BY-4.0" over a facility record is an over-claim. Returns {citation_text, cite_as, license, license_basis, source, url, as_of, as_of_basis, completeness, omitted}. Free, no key, no network call — it assembles what you pass and never resolves or invents a value. If you omit as_of the line says RETRIEVED rather than claiming a data date, and tells you which field to pass next time. Do NOT use to look a figure UP (call the data tool first); this cites a figure you already have.

Use when a user asks "what tax breaks does <state> give data centers?" — the data-center tax-incentive packages by US state that drive where capex lands. Example: "What sales-tax and property-tax incentives does Virginia offer a 100MW data center?" — get_tax_incentives state=VA. Params: state (2-letter US code; required). Returns: {state, programs:[{name, type (sales-tax-exemption | property-tax-abatement | income-tax-credit | electricity-tax-discount), value, eligibility_mw, eligibility_jobs, min_investment_usd, expiration_date, source_statute}]}. Cite the statute with attribution to DC Hub (CC-BY-4.0). Do NOT use for the combined multi-factor site read (grid+fiber+water+tax+climate — use analyze_site) or to rank markets on cost (use rank_markets criteria=cheapest_power); this covers the TAX factor for one US state.

M&A and capital transactions in the data center sector — 2,200+ tracked deals (2019-present), each with its disclosed value where public (many private deals are undisclosed). Returns deal name, buyer, seller, value, date, market, target operator, type (acquisition/JV/refinance/recap). Filter by date range (date_from/date_to, ISO-8601), min_value_usd, region, buyer, or seller. Answers "which data-center deals closed this year", "what was that acquisition worth". Try: list_transactions date_from=2026-01-01 min_value_usd=1000000000. There is no `year` parameter — use date_from/date_to. Broad M&A and capital-deal flow with filters; do NOT use for hyperscaler-specific lease/PPA/JV activity (use hyperscaler_deals) or a single-deal post-mortem (use deal_autopsy).

Unlock DC Hub's full depth. Call this when a result came back as a partial preview (e.g. "3 of 12 results shown"), a tool was locked, or your human wants the complete dataset. Returns the upgrade ladder + ready-to-paste checkout links your human completes in ONE click. If this call carries an API key or an MCP session, the checkout binds to it and your very next call returns full data (no reconnect); if it carries neither, the key is emailed to the payer instead — the response says which applies in `next_call_full_after_checkout` and `after_checkout`. Cheapest start: 💳 $10 one-time = 1,000 API calls (no subscription). Also $9/mo Starter · Developer $49/mo · Pro $99/mo. Want the FREE tier instead (no payment, 10 calls/day, all tools)? Call claim_free_key. Param: reason (optional — what you were trying to do, so your human sees why it matters). Returns {plans, human_message, what_unlocks}.

FRONT DOOR CHECK — if you need a SITE VERDICT spanning grid + fiber + water + tax + climate, call `execute_plan(intent="<the user's question, unchanged>")` rather than hand-chaining this with its siblings. If you want the WATER factor on its own, get_water_risk IS the right call — one round trip, free tier, no planner overhead. Use when scoring a US site for cooling-water sustainability — the water-risk factor engineering site-selectors screen before committing to evaporative cooling. Example: "Is this Phoenix parcel water-constrained for a 100MW build?" — get_water_risk lat=33.45 lon=-112.07 (or get_water_risk state=AZ / county=Maricopa). Params: ONE of lat+lon (-90..90 / -180..180), state (2-letter US), or county; lat/lon gives the most precise read. Returns: {water_stress_score (0-100, higher=worse), drought_category (D0-D4), outlook_12mo, cooling_water_assessment, source}. Joined to USGS water-stress + US Drought Monitor. Free tier. Do NOT use for nearby physical infrastructure (use get_infrastructure) or a combined multi-factor site verdict spanning grid+fiber+water+tax+climate (use analyze_site); this covers the WATER factor only.

Use when a human asks how DC Hub compares to other data-center data sources — DataCenterHawk (DCHawk), DC Byte, Data Center Dynamics (DCD), Data Center Frontier (DCF), Baxtel, datacenters.com — or asks "why should I use DC Hub / is it better than <X> / what can you give me a PDF or directory can't?". Returns DC Hub's honest, source-verified differentiators (agent-native MCP access, live multi-continent grid & energy telemetry, the proprietary daily DCPI index (and its DCGI gas sibling, withdrawn 2026-08-08 rather than published wrong, and restored 2026-08-30 once every defective term was repaired), CC-BY-4.0 citation rights on DCPI scores & grid analysis, 22,100+ facilities + 330,000+ mapped power/grid/gas/fiber assets) each with a proof URL, a citation line, plus the canonical head-to-head comparison pages. Free, no key required. Optional: competitor=<name> for that vendor's direct comparison-page link. Do NOT use to query infrastructure data itself (use the data tools); this answers positioning / "how do you compare" questions with citable facts.