This startup is helping tech giants and real estate developers find land for data centers—and using its own GPU cluster to do it

Acres founder Carter Malloy’s two daughters press their faces to a glass window at the back of the office, trying to see the humming machines their father has been raving about—two high‑end GPUs tucked into a dark corner.

Malloy bought those two machines from NVIDIA in 2024, and just recently ordered two more, which should arrive later this week. He’s also threading new cabling through the ceiling to plug the machines straight into the computers of his data science team, so they can...