https://nascconsulting.com/insights/ White papers, project notes, and updates from Nasc Consulting. en-us https://nascconsulting.com/insights/lessons-from-deforest/ https://nascconsulting.com/insights/lessons-from-deforest/ Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A $12 billion data center proposal moved through DeForest, Wisconsin in under four months and collapsed. Neither side got what it wanted. Five structural gaps made the sprint feel inevitable, and every one of them is fixable before the next proposal arrives. https://nascconsulting.com/insights/five-decisions-before-anyone-calls/ https://nascconsulting.com/insights/five-decisions-before-anyone-calls/ Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Preparedness usually gets described as a technical problem, which makes it something you buy, which makes it something you postpone until a proposal is already on the table. But the decisions that matter most cost nothing at all. Five a board can settle in a single afternoon, with nobody in the room but themselves. https://nascconsulting.com/insights/glad-to-see-the-stacks-come-down/ https://nascconsulting.com/insights/glad-to-see-the-stacks-come-down/ Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT For decades the Rock River Generating Station's smokestacks wore alternating bands of orange and white. Aviation striping, technically. Everybody around Beloit called them the candy canes. I assumed taking them down would be the easy part of a $700 million siting. I was wrong.