Room to grow.
The biodiversity, water and community evidence that moves an environmental license forward, and the nature positive outcomes your commitments already promise, across Latin America.
Two moments, one record.
Site Selection & Permitting
Before ground breaks, the licensing process decides the schedule. A baseline built to the standard the reviewing authority actually applies, and the ecological and water studies that support it, move a license forward instead of sending the file back for revision.
Operating Campuses & Expansions
A live campus still has to renew licenses, report against corporate nature and water commitments, and answer the community next to it. The same record serves all three, and gets stronger with each cycle instead of being rebuilt from scratch.
Permitting risk is schedule risk. Water risk is siting risk.
A data center project is rarely held up by engineering alone. It is held up when the licensing file cannot answer a question the authority is entitled to ask, when the water context of the site was scoped late, or when the surrounding community hears about the project before it has a way to engage. Each of those is an environmental and social evidence problem before it becomes a legal or commercial one, and each is far cheaper to answer at site selection than after the file is under review.
Built for the local process
We work to the environmental licensing framework that actually applies in the jurisdiction, supported by the international standards your lenders and corporate commitments require.
Water read as a living system
Source, watershed condition, seasonal availability, discharge and the ecosystems and users downstream, assessed as nature-related evidence alongside the ecological baseline.
One evidence base, many decisions
The same record supports the license, the lender's diligence pack, corporate nature and water reporting, and community engagement. One field program, not four.
One method, every site you build
The same methodology carries from a single campus to a regional buildout, so your sites are documented consistently and comparably as the portfolio grows.
Designed for scrutiny
Every finding is traceable to its source, method, location and reviewer. Where the evidence is thin, the system flags the gap instead of filling it with an assumption.
Your record stays yours
Your baseline, your data, your account. Renewals, expansions and new diligence cycles build on the record you already own, never restart it.
Specialists where judgment matters
Where the terms of reference call for fauna and flora surveys, we run them with the methods the authority accepts, and a named regional specialist signs off on the calls the data alone cannot settle.
A campus's water story starts outside the fence line.
Cooling is an engineering question, and it is not ours. What sits around it is: the source that supplies the campus, the watershed that sustains that source, the ecosystems connected to it, and the people who depend on it. Those are nature-related questions, and in a water-stressed basin they often decide whether a site is viable at all.
We work alongside your engineering and water teams, not instead of them, and we build the ecological and watershed evidence their design has to be defended with.
- Watershed condition and dependency screening at site-selection stage
- Seasonal availability and competing-use context around the site
- Aquatic and riparian ecosystem baseline, upstream and downstream
- Receiving-environment review for discharge questions
- Evidence base for corporate water targets and lender diligence
- A water narrative for the community that is grounded in site data
Discovery first. Then the program that carries the project.
Every engagement starts as a Discovery, the same structured diagnostic behind every KEA program: what the site requires, what already exists, and what investment closes the difference.
Discovery
Maps the licensing pathway, the ecological and water questions the site raises, the questions likely to come up in review, and the disclosure commitments the company already carries. Returns a scoped plan, sequenced by what gates the project first.
Baseline
Establishes the ecological and watershed reference condition of the site and the landscape around it, before construction. This is the reference every future claim depends on, and it can only be built once, while the ground is still unchanged.
MRV
Measurement, reporting and verification through construction and operation, against the biodiversity, water and community indicators agreed at baseline. The record shows what actually happened on the site, continuously, instead of being reconstructed under pressure at renewal.
Mitigation & Uplift
The mitigation hierarchy first. Where residual impact remains, a restoration, conservation or watershed-resilience program in the same landscape, designed to be measured and audited rather than declared.
The license is granted locally. So is the permission to keep operating.
In Brazil, environmental licensing runs under CONAMA Resolution 237/1997, which structures approval into three stages, Licenca Previa, Licenca de Instalacao and Licenca de Operacao, sets out the studies each stage requires, and provides for a public hearing where the project's impact warrants one. Projects judged to cause significant degradation require an EIA/RIMA, which is published and open to comment. Equivalent processes, under different names, gate projects across the region.
That means the file is read by a public authority, and in many cases by communities, prosecutors and NGOs as well. A project that arrives at that stage with a defensible ecological and watershed record, and a documented relationship with the people around it, is in a different position than one that arrives with neither.
We support both sides of that: the technical evidence that satisfies the reviewing authority, and the evidence base that makes engagement with the community substantive rather than procedural. We do not replace your legal or permitting counsel. We make sure the environmental record underneath them holds.
The system behind every file.
Every site mapped and every baseline set runs through the same AI-enabled platform, accelerated by agentic AI and anchored by a curated network of scientists and practitioners.
The record doesn't close when it's filed. A renewal, an expansion, or a new disclosure cycle re-enters at whichever step changed, not at step one.
Every hectare traced. Site mapping, satellite scan and habitat classification run before the baseline is fixed, so the reference condition is measured rather than asserted.
Reviewed before it's filed. Ecological and watershed findings feed a named regional specialist, who reviews the cases that call for judgment before anything reaches an authority.
Never starts from zero. A renewal, an expansion, or a new disclosure cycle re-enters at whichever step changed, not at step one.
Starting where the evidence actually is.
KEA's field network is curated, not assembled ad hoc for each engagement. Senior biodiversity professionals onboarded onto the platform. Local service providers for the field methods a given terms of reference calls for.
The network started in Latin America, the same region where the next decade of compute capacity is being sited, and where the ecological, water and social questions that decide a license are hardest to answer from a desk.
The baseline you set before construction is the reference every future license, disclosure and community conversation depends on.