The TrailData center–style game
Play the data center
Play the data center
The game's world at golden hour: a data-center campus going up in the desert, a crane lifting a roof fan, crews in hard hats, and a heavy-haul truck bringing a power transformer to the gate.

The headstone · Dec 2029

Here lies Project Tumbleweed

Died of a county moratorium

A player played the data center

Insatiable demand for data — can you build a data center in America?

The calls that decided it

  1. Apr 2027The county hearing — Make your case
  2. Oct 2027The power line — Wait in line
  3. Nov 2028Cooling — Water cooling towers

The replay of this run plays here once the game's engine is in the site; it is rebuilt from the run itself, not recorded.

Your turn

Would you have called it differently?

Same situation, your decisions. 5–8 minutes.

The Trail · The data center

Who is paying?

A tech giantDeep pockets. Your board wants it sooner.An AI startupOne huge contract and a lot of nerve.A local developerA bank loan, some farmland and a dream.

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