Easement
An easement is a recorded right that lets someone other than the landowner use part of a property for a specific purpose, such as a pipeline, power line, road or drainage. Easements usually run with the land and survive a sale. On data center sites they can block building footprints, restrict grading, or limit where substations and fiber routes can go, so their exact location and terms matter.
The full guide · Land & site fundamentalsMineral Rights and Easements: How They Affect Data Center LandHow severed mineral rights, surface access rights and easements can limit a data center site, and the agreements used to clear or work around them.Where Easement comes up
- Land & site fundamentalsConservation Easements and Deed Restrictions on Data Center Land
- Land & site fundamentalsEminent Domain and Transmission Line Easements: A Landowner’s Guide
- Land & site fundamentalsGross vs. Buildable Acreage: How Much of a Site You Can Use
- Land & site fundamentalsTitle Review and ALTA Surveys for Data Center Land
- Water, gas & fiberNatural Gas Pipeline Access for Data Center Sites
- Guides by roleRepresenting Land for Data Center Use: A Broker’s Guide
- Land & site fundamentalsCan Farmland Be Converted to a Data Center?
- Land & site fundamentalsSite Shape, Access and Frontage for Data Centers