AI is driving a data center construction boom across the US. A single facility can draw up to 1,000 megawatts — enough to power a mid-sized city. Utilities are being asked to absorb that demand faster than their grid was built to handle.
The consulting team's technical brief — the raw input before any design decisions were made.
AI-driven data centers draw 200–1,000 MW continuously and connect directly at the substation — the grid's most constrained point. Grid infrastructure takes 8+ years to expand. Data centers are built in 18 months. That gap is the problem.
Each row maps one section of the brief to the visual form I chose and why that form serves the room.
Each visual form was chosen to serve a utility executive audience — not to display the data, but to make the argument land before anyone reads a caption.
| What I Received | Visual Form I Chose | Why It Serves the Room |
|---|---|---|
| 1System description — data centers connecting at the substation | Architecture Diagram | Executives understand systems faster through structure than through description |
| 2Two timelines in conflict — 18 months vs 8+ years | Timeline — dual-track comparison | The gap between two bars communicates urgency faster than any sentence |
| 3Five technical recommendations | Process Flow + Roadmap | Recommendations become an engagement — what 1898 does and what the client achieves |
Six slides built in PowerPoint, Illustrator, and Photoshop — one brief translated into a complete executive presentation.
Slide panel shows the full development sequence — including concept iterations — built natively in PowerPoint.
A standalone demonstration of InDesign production expertise — multi-page layout, typographic hierarchy, and print-ready document design.
This proposal design is a separate portfolio piece — independent from the grid presentation content. It showcases my ability to build a professional, multi-page document system in Adobe InDesign: master pages, paragraph styles, consistent grid, and a visual hierarchy that guides the reader from cover through closeout. The content is illustrative; the craft is the point.
Full proposal mockup — cover and 8 interior pages presented in a 16:9 layout view.
Live InDesign document — screenshots show paragraph styles panel, text frame handles, and layout grid at 100% GPU preview.