Somebody has to be able to check the numbers.
Calyx Intelligence builds verified public-record corpora on data center siting and its public finance — what was decided, by whom, under what authority, and against which source document.
We sell to developers, to counties, to utilities, and to the people opposing them. The record says what it says regardless of who asked.
- claim
- Large-scale data centers can consume as much as 4.5 million gallons of water per day.
- claimant
- Petition circulated in Washington County, Oregon, spring 2026
- authority
- City of Hillsboro, published 2025 water data
- retrieved
- 2026-09-04
- origin
- observed
- state
- deviation
Reported daily consumption of 4.5 million gallons for a single large-scale facility does not reconcile against the City of Hillsboro’s reported 2025 water data for all data center sites in the city, as of 2026-09-04.
The vacancy
Roughly $130 billion in data center investment moves each quarter. Three hundred bills were introduced across the states in six weeks. Moratorium proposals are live in fourteen states, from both parties, and national polling puts opposition above 70 percent.
Every number in that fight is published by someone with a position.
Industry associations publish the industry’s figures. Advocacy organizations publish advocacy figures with the conclusion stated first. The most-cited national tracker is built on unverified self-reports. Sponsored research on both sides routinely declines to disclose its funding.
There is no neutral, provenance-carrying source of record anywhere in it. That seat is empty because the economics of occupying it are bad for anyone whose revenue comes from one side.
What we sell
Not analysis. Analysis is what every consultant in this fight already sells, and it is why nobody believes any of it.
A record that predates the argument — something a person with standard tools and no reason to trust us can go check, and it holds.
Why records degrade
Numbers lose fidelity every time they are handled, by everyone, including the people with the most reason to be careful. Not through carelessness. Through the ordinary lossiness of transcription, summary and republication.
In one recent case a utility rate figure circulated in trade coverage inside a paragraph where every other number matched the issuing Commission’s own release exactly — the residential decrease, the commercial decrease, the monthly dollar saving, the typical usage figure, the customer count, the effective date. One digit in the set had moved. Nothing was fabricated. Nobody was careless in any way a reader could detect.
Surrounding accuracy is what makes a single deviation invisible.
How we stay independent
Independence is not a claim. It is four operating rules, and each one costs us something.
We considered organizing as a nonprofit and rejected it. Every compromised source in this market is already a nonprofit. Tax status confers nothing; donor dependence is the problem, not the cure.
- 01Bill at rate.Full rate, no discounts, no free work, no in-kind. A discount is a donation and a donation is a position.
- 02Publish the funding.Every engagement on a standing public page — who paid, how much, for what scope. The reason nobody trusts anyone in this market is that nobody discloses.
- 03Sell to both sides in the same market.Stated at intake. We will take work from a developer and from the opposition in the same county, and neither engagement changes what the record says.
- 04Grade our own client’s numbers the same way.The first time a client’s figure does not reconcile, they hear it privately and first. This one is the whole business. Soften it once and there is no way back.
We are not on a side
Calyx holds no position on whether data centers should be built, where, or under what incentives. Findings state what the record shows. Where a client wants a recommendation it comes from a named human in a separately signed document, identified as judgment sitting on top of verified facts. A verifier who quietly advocates is an advocate with better sourcing.
Declared adjacencies
An affiliated entity, Southwest Energy Group LLC, operates in behind-the-meter and distributed generation. Where a Calyx corpus covers interconnection constraint in a market that entity could serve, the adjacency is declared in writing before the engagement, priced separately, and published here.
Any elected or appointed official in a jurisdiction we cover will have their votes, filings and recusals in the corpus with dates attached. We say so to every prospective client before an engagement begins.
Funding disclosure
Every engagement appears here: the paying party, the amount, the scope, the jurisdiction. Published when the engagement begins, not when it ends.
This page exists before it has anything to report, so that its existence cannot be read as a response to anything.
| Date | Client | Scope | Amount |
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No engagements to report.
Unpaid work is disclosed too. Where Calyx performs verification without a client — as it does building a jurisdiction’s corpus before any engagement exists — the work is marked self-funded and published on the same terms as paid work.
Working with us
What a jurisdiction gets
A corpus for its own boundaries: the instruments and their expiry dates, the abatement record by account and by program, the power and interconnection position, the land use and permit posture, and the standards that apply. Every entry sourced, dated, and marked with how strongly it is held.
What a developer or lender gets
The same corpus, read for constraint rather than for accountability. What a site can actually do, what it will have to prove, and which of the published numbers about it hold up.
What both get
The same answers. That is the point of the arrangement, and it is why we can be paid by either.