Gas Index (DCGI)
get_gas_indexEvaluate data center natural-gas suitability with a per-state Data Center Gas Index. Withdrawn due to defects; use get_gas_intelligence for gas data.
Instructions
Data Center Gas Index (DCGI) — the per-US-state natural-gas suitability score. ★ WITHDRAWN 2026-08-08: this tool no longer returns a score. The backend returns an unavailable_reason naming the defects — the 20-point interstate-share term compared a lowercase literal against capitalised EIA TYPEPIPE values and scored ~0 for all 53 published states, and the 40%-weighted cost term was a hardcoded constant for nine states including Texas (published at DCGI 68.0, rank #3, GAS-ADVANTAGED off that constant). DO NOT quote a cached DCGI figure. Use get_gas_intelligence for the natural-gas pipeline, operator and parent-midstream data, which is unaffected.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | No | Max results to return (1-500; default varies by tool) | |
| state | No | US state abbreviation for a single-state DCGI breakdown, e.g. TX, VA, AZ; omit for the national ranking |
Output Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| quota | No | Caller quota state (remaining calls, tier) when available. | |
| _entity | No | Payload class discriminator (e.g. facility|market|iso_grid|queue_results|deal|report|response) — branch on this before parsing the rest. | |
| citation | No | Machine-readable citation: how to attribute DC Hub (dchub.cloud) for this payload. Normally an OBJECT {source, url, license, cite_as, retrieved_at}; a bare string is accepted and carries the attribution line itself. | |
| provenance | No | Collection-level provenance block: {source, method, as_of, verification_counts, cite_url_template, license, cite_as}. Quote the verification level when citing. | |
| _front_door | No | In-band front-door hint (first workflow-entry tool of a session): call plan_query(intent) first for the ordered multi-step plan. | |
| _return_loop | No | Suggested next-session delta call (get_changes since=24h) so you pull only what changed. | |
| site_evaluation_handoff | No | Pre-built follow-up calls (analyze_site / get_water_risk args) when the payload carries coordinates — an array of {tool, parameters, why} entries. |