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Constraint Builder
Edge 5 MW — NYC Metro
stableRegime IV
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Why it bindsThe machine

Regional TAM estimated at 4× local workloads = 1.20 TTokens/mo (Synergy Research H1 2025: hyperscale regional market concentration). Site utilization: 85.0% with 8% proximity premium. 800 Gbps backbone + path diversity 6 support regional hub positioning.

Critical
Edge 5 MW — NYC MetroUS-NJ
Timeline

Critical: project timeline is binding — pricing window compressed by deployment delay.

Supply exceeds demand by 1.4×33% premium on binding timeline

Binding constraint

Construction schedule is the critical path to revenue

Every month of delay compresses the pricing window and reduces levered NPV by eroding time-in-market against faster entrants.

The industry optimizes for capital cost per MW. It should optimize for time-to-first-token. The cheapest facility is almost never the most profitable.

Near-binding risks

Capital

2 percentage points below the binding threshold

Hardware

25 percentage points below the binding threshold

Permits

42 percentage points below the binding threshold

Regime 4 — Critical: Severe structural imbalance. Supply cannot meet demand even at maximum utilisation; multiple constraints are near-binding simultaneously.

Regime 4 — Critical. Binding: Timeline. Near-binding: Capital.
0.0
PowerElectrical power availability and grid capacity.
0.1
ThermalHeat rejection capacity of the cooling system.
0.0
NetworkExternal bandwidth and path-diversity constraint.
0.5
HardwareGPU and accelerator supply constraint.
0.8
TimelineConstruction and commissioning schedule constraint.
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LaborSkilled workforce availability for operations.
0.3
PermitsRegulatory and permitting approval constraint.
0.7
CapitalCommitted funding availability for the next expansion.
derivedgap metric & fill per node — engine-derived from registry assumptions