Integrated Infrastructure Solutions for Data Centers and Mission Critical Operations

Data centers face a defining challenge: securing reliable power and water at unprecedented scale—without slowing growth or compromising security.

We help clients by planning, designing, and integrating energy, water, and site infrastructure that works from day one and scales for the future. By optimizing onsite systems and coordinating with utilities and regulators, we enable efficient, resilient, and cost-effective data center development.

Comprehensive Data Center Solutions

Our deep and broad expertise allows us to provide solutions across power, water, and building services, from planning through construction, for data center sites and portfolios.

Energy and Water Pricing and Regulatory Consulting Services
GFT’s consulting services are designed to meet clients at their most critical decision points, whether addressing regulatory complexity, evaluating investment feasibility, or driving large-scale portfolio decisions.
Our offerings — ranging from technology feasibility assessments to energy and water pricing to capital planning, cost-benefit modeling, utility ratemaking, and asset valuations — can be delivered independently or as an integrated solution grounded in technical rigor and strategic insight. We provide net emissions analysis, energy management, and high-level strategic advisory services, helping clients align infrastructure and energy decisions with decarbonization goals, financial performance, and evolving policy landscapes.
What distinguishes GFT is our ability to translate complex regulatory, financial, and technological factors into clear, actionable strategies, positioning our clients to navigate a rapidly changing energy environment with confidence and precision.
Pre-Planning and Feasibility Studies
Successful infrastructure projects start with informed decisions. GFT helps clients evaluate potential projects through comprehensive feasibility studies, site-selection analyses, and early-stage planning.
We combine expertise across power, water, siting, and facilities disciplines to assess critical factors, including power availability, water resources, permitting requirements, environmental constraints, and long-term operational needs. By combining technical expertise with financial and regulatory insight, we help clients understand risks, identify opportunities, and select the most viable path forward before significant capital is invested.
Utility and Stakeholder Coordination
Infrastructure projects require close coordination with utilities, regulators, and local stakeholders. GFT works directly with power providers, water utilities, municipalities, and regulatory agencies to align infrastructure needs with available resources and community requirements.
Our experience navigating permitting, environmental review, and public engagement helps streamline approvals and reduce project delays. By facilitating collaboration among all stakeholders, we help ensure projects are both technically feasible and socially responsible.

Design and Permitting
GFT provides integrated engineering services from concept through approvals. Our multidisciplinary teams develop site designs, building systems, and infrastructure solutions that meet performance, sustainability, and regulatory requirements. Our power engineers design substations, transmission lines, and generating facilities. We guide clients through complex permitting processes, coordinating with agencies to secure timely approvals. By aligning design with regulatory requirements and project objectives, GFT helps clients advance projects efficiently while maintaining quality, reliability, and cost control.
Construction Management
GFT delivers owner-focused construction management for mission-critical power and data center infrastructure. We protect cost, schedule, quality, and risk across the full construction lifecycle. Services include constructability reviews, estimating, scheduling, procurement support, and permitting coordination. During construction, we provide on-site management, contractor coordination, quality assurance/control, safety oversight, and environmental compliance. Our project controls cover change management, reporting, and stakeholder coordination. We also support closeout, commissioning, and turnover. With deep utility expertise and experience in complex, live-system environments, GFT ensures reliable, efficient project delivery for high-performance infrastructure.
Operations Control Centers
Operations Control Centers (OCCs) function as specialized data centers for transit systems. Unlike traditional data centers that support digital services, OCCs directly enable public mobility and passenger safety. Operating 24/7, they remain fully functional during emergencies and serve as the command hubs for rail and transit networks. OCCs integrate real-time train control, security, communications, and incident response into a single environment. Defined by the American Public Transportation Association as the primary control location under all conditions, they require uncompromising uptime and resiliency. As single-tenant, owner-operated, mission-critical facilities, their infrastructure demands rival major data centers, with downtime posing immediate risks to public safety and trust.