Wood Mackenzie Buys LandGate to Boost US Power Market Data
Wood Mackenzie acquires LandGate and its 150M parcel-level land dataset to sharpen capital decisions for power, renewables, and data center developers.
Wood Mackenzie has acquired LandGate, a land intelligence platform, in a move designed to give energy and infrastructure developers faster, higher-confidence tools for deploying capital across US power markets, the company announced Wednesday. The deal brings a dataset covering 150 million individual land parcels under Wood Mackenzie's roof, significantly expanding the analytical firepower the firm can offer clients navigating a rapidly shifting energy landscape.
The acquisition targets a critical bottleneck in renewable energy and data center development: identifying and securing suitable land. By integrating parcel-level intelligence directly into Wood Mackenzie's existing research and analytics platform, the combined offering is expected to reduce the time developers spend on site selection and due diligence — two stages that have historically slowed project timelines and inflated costs.
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The deal also reflects the surging demand for data center infrastructure, which has emerged as a major new driver of US electricity consumption. Developers racing to site AI-linked compute facilities need granular land and grid-access data quickly, and Wood Mackenzie is positioning itself as the connective layer between land availability and power market analysis.
For Wood Mackenzie, whose core business is energy research and consulting, folding in LandGate's dataset is presented as a market-position play — reinforcing its standing at a moment when the convergence of renewables build-out, grid modernization, and data center expansion is generating intense competition among intelligence providers. The company says the integration will deliver what it calls "connected intelligence" tailored to the new era of US power markets.
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