The right investment decisions begin with confidence that a site or asset can deliver the intended outcome.
Hyceon helps clients understand whether a development opportunity is worth pursuing before significant capital is committed.
Through multidisciplinary technical, planning and commercial due diligence, we evaluate the factors that determine project viability, including power availability, connectivity, planning constraints, environmental considerations, buildability, infrastructure requirements and delivery risk.
The result is a clear understanding of project feasibility, enabling informed investment decisions and a confident transition into Master Planning & Permitting.
How we deliver it
Our 4-Step Feasibility Framework
Understand the client and the brief
We start from the requirements you have to deliver against: capacity, power, timeline, resilience, sustainability commitments — and the European market, grid and regulatory realities each is being tested against.
Validate the fit
For each candidate site or asset — whether you bring it, or we work through options together — we test whether it can genuinely carry the brief: power availability and connection dates, fibre, water, planning context, environmental constraints, expansion potential.
Price the risk
Engineering-led feasibility on the option or options in play: grid connection pathway, permitting risk, ground conditions, phasing and capex/opex parameters. Issues surfaced while they are still cheap to fix.
Consolidate the decision case
Technical, regulatory and commercial findings consolidated into a defensible position — and a running start into Master Planning & Permitting.
What We Deliver
Site Advisory
For acquirers: client-directed validation of sites and assets for investors, operators and public-sector bodies acquiring or leasing capacity — single sites or portfolio searches, across European markets.
For landowners: technical evaluation and evidence preparation — power, connectivity, planning status — that helps landowners, municipalities and utilities position sites to operators and investors, complementing commercial brokerage.
Technical Due Diligence
Buy-side and sell-side TDD for investors, developers and operators, covering design quality, capacity claims, permitting status and expansion headroom.
Feasibility Studies & Concept Master Plans
Rapid capacity, cost and phasing concepts that turn a land opportunity into an investable scheme — the pre-acquisition feasibility product.
Site & Asset Market-Risk Assessment
Risk analysis for a specific site or asset within its European market context: power outlook, regulatory climate, incentives, moratoria and time-to-market.
Portfolio & Asset Strategy Reviews
Technical and permitting review of specific assets or grouped portfolios to identify densification, expansion and divestment opportunities.
Business Case Development
Capacity, capex, schedule and revenue assumptions consolidated into a defensible investment case.
Pre-design Regulatory & Compliance Advisory
Early assessment of approval pathways, compliance obligations and permitting risk — preparing the ground for the full Master Planning & Permitting workstream.
Why Hyceon?
Design-led feasibility
Advice grounded in the 270+ specialists who go on to design and permit these facilities.
Regulatory foresight
Hundreds of permits secured across European jurisdictions — planning risk priced into site decisions from day one.
One European team, local everywhere
Eight cities working in the local language and instruments of every market and authority.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Grid capacity and connection dates dominate every other factor, followed by land availability and zoning, permitting complexity and community sentiment, fibre routes, water resources, climate for cooling efficiency, and national or municipal policy — including active moratoria in several markets. The weighting differs sharply market by market.
Costs range from tens of millions of euros for enterprise facilities to multi-billion-euro hyperscale campuses. The largest variables are grid connection, land, mechanical and electrical plant, and delivery timescale. Published averages are unreliable for real decisions; site-specific business cases are the honest answer.
Before the letter of intent, not after. Engaged early, the highest-value findings — grid reality, permitting exposure, capacity claims — shape price and structure; engaged late, they can only confirm terms already agreed. Engaged at feasibility stage, technical advisors let the delivery plan and the investment case be built on the same assumptions.
Yes. Alongside buy-side advisory, we evaluate land for data centre suitability and prepare the technical evidence base — power pathway, connectivity, environmental and planning status — that lets landowners, municipalities and utilities position sites credibly to operators and investors. We complement commercial agents rather than replacing them.
Valuation prices what is; technical due diligence prices what is genuinely deliverable — verified capacity, permitting conditions, expansion headroom, standards compliance (EN 50600, Uptime Institute Tier, hyperscaler design guides), and hidden risk. Robust TDD gives the buyer negotiation leverage grounded in engineering fact.
Yes. Data centres are our primary market, but the same disciplines — design-led feasibility, permitting risk, campus and site strategy — serve other mission-critical infrastructure, including pharmaceutical, healthcare and industrial resilience-critical projects across our European markets.