5 practitioner guides by Julian R. Sterling, best read first at the top. Each one is built on a single worked case, and every figure it prints is a live formula in a free workbook.
The quickest way into infrastructure, data centres and energy is The Data Center Development Handbook, the most read title in this list. The others go deeper into one job or one asset each. Every book below has a free companion page with the workbooks, so the arithmetic can be checked before the book is bought.
Site Selection, Power Procurement, and Grid Interconnection: A Practical Career Guide to the Deal Side of AI Infrastructure
Three business models on the same 180 MW site, an interest rate taken out of the chapter rather than the air, and what a twelve-month slip costs.
Worked example: Does a twelve-month energisation delay cost more than an eight per cent rent miss?
Worked example: Is powered shell or turnkey data centre development the better return?
A Practical Career and Implementation Guide to Deals, Diligence, and Asset Management
Every figure the book states reproduces exactly, except three. One asset valued twice to the last decimal, and a 33 versus 72 per cent gap.
Worked example: Does a constant WACC overstate value when the debt amortises?
A Practitioner's Guide to the Flat Book, the Hours It Averages Away, and the Margin Call That Arrives First
The four workbooks behind Energy Trading: the price duration curve and the two averages it yields, one power station valued four ways, the load shape that takes 86.0857 per cent of a retail margin, and the day-one cash call that depends on where the paperwork sits.
Worked example: How much of a fixed-price retail margin does the load shape take?
Data Centers, Fiber, Towers and the Power Behind AI by the Numbers
The four workbooks behind The Digital Infrastructure Investor: a data center leased to a hyperscaler, a fiber-to-the-home network and 850 towers, modeled by live formula with every printed figure checked, plus blank models and a timed test with its answer key.
Worked example: How does the tenancy ratio drive cell tower returns?
The two Excel workbooks behind The Project Finance Handbook: a 96 MW data center that costs 614.4 million to build and 657.4 million to fund, carries 427.3 million of debt and returns 16.60 per cent to equity with only 2.41 points of it coming from the exit, and a 220 MW solar and storage project that returns 5.59 per cent with a thirty per cent investment tax credit and 0.13 per cent without one. No circular references, the funding loop unrolled one pass per column, and every figure in the book reproduced by a live formula.
Worked example: How much debt does a 65 per cent loan-to-cost cap refuse?
Start with The Data Center Development Handbook by Julian R. Sterling. It is the most read title in this list, and like the others it is built on one fully specified worked case whose every printed figure is reproduced in a free Excel workbook.
Yes. Every title in this guide has a free companion page on julianrsterling.com with the workbooks, blank templates and checklists. They need no account and no email address.
Analysts, associates and managers who need to compute the numbers rather than describe them: each book follows one case from the first input to the decision, at practitioner level.
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