GroundScore DCI is a single, unified site-suitability index. It is not two separate models stitched together; it is one composite that fuses the soil and ground conditions with the infrastructure realities of a data-center campus, expressed as a single 0-100 score and a GO / CAUTION / NO-GO read.
Every criterion - soil and site alike - is expressed as a fuzzy limitation from 0 (no limitation) to 1 (fully limiting), exactly the way a soil-survey interpretation is built. All the criteria then enter one weighted aggregation: the soil survey's raw inputs flow in directly - the engineering interpretations (commercial buildings, roads, shallow excavations), corrosion of buried steel and concrete, depth to bedrock, seasonal high water table, shrink-swell (linear extensibility), drainage class, flooding and ponding, hydric (wetland) rating - alongside the site criteria measured at the exact point.
The weights reflect what actually gates a data-center build - power and ground heaviest by default - and re-tune live with your persona, priorities, campus size and cooling. A most-limiting term rides on top: a single fatal flaw - frequent flooding, a hydric map unit, no grid in reach - drags the site down rather than being averaged away. A campus is only as good as its worst constraint.
Prime 80+ · Favorable 65-80 · Guarded 50-65 · Elevated 35-50 · Severe <35. Draw an area to screen every map unit in it and get a buildability distribution plus a written, pedologist-grade assessment. The whole model is validated against the siting record of 88 operating hyperscale campuses.
Desktop screening from the National Cooperative Soil Survey (SSURGO) fused with public infrastructure data. A screening signal to prioritize sites; it does not replace a geotechnical investigation. Ground truthing is required before commitment.