# Land-Power-Shell Data Center **Entity class:** Infrastructure model **Domain:** Artificial intelligence / Data centers **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition A land-power-shell data center strategy secures a site, electrical capacity, and buildable facility envelope before finalizing the computing equipment placed inside it. ## Mechanism and significance The model recognizes that permitting, interconnection, transformers, cooling, and construction often constrain AI deployment longer than server procurement. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#Model Architecture and Compute Economics|Model Architecture and Compute Economics]] - **Primary fields:** [[Machine Intelligence]] · [[AI Infrastructure]] · [[Compute Race]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[H100 Scarcity]] · [[GPU Secondary Market]] · [[Machine-Intelligence Demand]] · [[Compute Leasing]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this entity or concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Time-sensitive organizational, product, policy, and performance claims should be checked against the linked primary source or a current authoritative source before reuse as settled fact.