A Data Center Buildout Is Affecting Your Land.
Their Offer Is Rarely the Real Number.
Independent right-of-way negotiation for landowners affected by data center power, substation, and infrastructure buildouts — AEP, PSO, Oncor, and every other utility or developer.
// DATA CENTER RIGHT-OF-WAY
Data centers are driving a historic wave of power infrastructure buildouts. Your land rights matter.
Large-scale data center campuses require enormous, continuous power — often hundreds of megawatts per site — and utilities such as AEP, PSO, and Oncor are building new transmission lines, substations, and generation interconnects to serve them. That buildout is generating new easement and right-of-way requests across Texas, Oklahoma, and nationwide.
A data center-driven easement grants a utility or developer the permanent right to construct and operate transmission lines, substations, water lines, or backup power infrastructure across your land. The restrictions are severe and long-lasting — affecting agricultural operations, development potential, and future land value. The initial offer rarely accounts for all of this.
You are not required to sign the first agreement presented to you. State law requires utilities and developers to pay just compensation for these easements. An independent review almost always reveals a gap between what you were offered and what you are owed.
// WHAT WE EVALUATE
A data center right-of-way easement is more than a check.
Fair Market Value
The per-acre easement value based on your land’s actual use and development potential — not the utility’s appraisal.
Remainder Damages
Tower locations, restricted use zones, and access limitations all reduce the value of the land you keep.
Agricultural & Operational Impact
Crop disruption, equipment clearance, irrigation changes, and livestock management impacts are all compensable.
Easement Terms & Restrictions
Depth and height restrictions, future line additions, access road rights, and liability provisions in the agreement.
Development Impact
If your land has development potential, a transmission corridor can severely limit its highest and best use — that loss is compensable.
Data Center Power Buildouts
We track data center-driven transmission and substation projects, including utility-scale buildouts like the NE Oklahoma data-center transmission corridor, and know how these offers are structured.
If a utility or developer has contacted you about a data center power project — call us before you respond.
National ROW has represented landowners on transmission, substation, and utility easements for over 35 years, including data center-driven power projects. We work on contingency — if we don’t increase your compensation, you pay nothing.
Get a free data center easement reviewData Center Right-of-Way — Frequently Asked Questions
Data centers don't take your land directly — but the utility or developer building the power lines, substations, or water infrastructure to serve them often does. You're negotiating with that utility or developer, not the data center operator, and the same just compensation rules apply.
Data centers can require hundreds of megawatts of continuous power, forcing utilities to build new transmission lines and substations to serve them. When a utility can't negotiate a voluntary easement, it may use eminent domain authority to acquire the right-of-way — the same process used for any transmission project.
Yes. A new or expanded substation nearby can bring noise, visual impact, and access easements even if none of your acreage is taken outright — and those effects on your remaining property can factor into just compensation.
Yes. Large data center campuses often require new water lines, wastewater capacity, or backup power infrastructure in addition to electric service, and each of those can bring its own easement request across nearby land.
We work on contingency — there's no upfront cost, and we're only paid if we increase your compensation.
Defend your right to fair value. Talk to National ROW.
We coordinate your response to condemnation from the first notice to the final number — and we fight to make sure you’re fairly compensated. Nationwide coverage, all 50 states. Call or text either line, or send a note. We answer owners directly, usually the same day.
Know your rights. Find out what your property is really worth.
What they offered and what it’s worth are rarely the same number.
You don't have to accept their first offer. Tell us about the taking and what you've received. We'll review it and call you back with straight answers — usually the same day. The review is free, and there's no obligation.
(469) 484-7960 (956) 363-4144 info@nationalrow.comWe've got it from here.
Your case is in review. One of our consultants will look at everything you shared and reach out — usually the same day, often within the hour during business hours.
In the meantime, don’t sign anything, don’t return calls from their ROW agent, and don’t feel pressured by any deadlines they’ve mentioned. Those are exactly the kinds of things we’ll walk you through together.
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