DC Hub — Data Center & Energy Intelligence

Industry News

get_news

Read-onlyIdempotent

Get curated data center industry headlines from 40+ trade sources, updated every 30 minutes. Filter by category (AI, deals, policy, outages) and keyword to answer what’s happening in the sector.

Instructions

FRONT DOOR CHECK — if news is only ONE input to a bigger question (is this market heating up, should we still build here), call execute_plan(intent="<the user's question, unchanged>") and let it pull news alongside the market and grid reads. If the user actually wants the headlines, get_news IS the right call — one round trip; do not send a plain news request through the planner. Curated data center industry news from 40+ trade sources (DCD, Data Center Knowledge, Data Center Frontier, Capacity Media, The Register Data Centre, Fierce Telecom, etc.) refreshed every 30 min. Returns title, summary, source, published_at, and the market/operator entities mentioned. Filter by category (deals/permits/outages/policy/AI). Answers "what is happening in the data center industry this week", "any news on AI capacity". Try: get_news category=AI limit=10. The parameter is category, not topic. Industry news only; do NOT use for structured M&A deal data (use list_transactions) or the construction pipeline (use get_pipeline).

Input Schema

TableJSON Schema

Name	Required	Description
`limit`	No	Max results to return (1-500; default varies by tool)
`query`	No	Free-text keyword to filter news, e.g. "Stargate" or "interconnection queue"
`source`	No	Restrict to one trade source, e.g. DCD, "Data Center Frontier", "Capacity Media"
`date_to`	No	Latest published date, ISO-8601 (YYYY-MM-DD)
`category`	No	News topic filter, e.g. deals, permits, outages, policy, AI
`date_from`	No	Earliest published date, ISO-8601 (YYYY-MM-DD)
`min_relevance`	No	Minimum relevance score 0-1 to include an item, e.g. 0.5

Output Schema

TableJSON Schema

Name	Required	Description
`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.

Schema Changelog

Changes observed during successful MCP inspections.

Changed2 schema fields changedAug 30, 2026

removedInput schema / $schema

Removed value: -"http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"

removedOutput schema / $schema

Removed value: -"http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"

Changed5 schema fields changedv2.3.20Aug 14, 2026

removedOutput schema / properties / citation / additionalProperties
```
Removed value: -{}
```

addedOutput schema / properties / citation / anyOf

Added value: +[
+  {
+    "additionalProperties": {},
+    "properties": {},
+    "type": "object"
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "string"
+  }
+]

changedOutput schema / properties / citation / description

Previous value: -"Machine-readable citation: how to attribute DC Hub (dchub.cloud) for this payload."New value: +"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."

removedOutput schema / properties / citation / properties
```
Removed value: -{}
```
removedOutput schema / properties / citation / type
```
Removed value: -"object"
```

Changed1 schema field changedv2.3.12Jul 28, 2026

changedOutput schema / (root)

Previous value: -nullNew value: +{
+  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
+  "additionalProperties": {},
+  "description": "DC Hub envelope: structuredContent mirrors the JSON payload in content[0].text — tool-specific data fields ride at the top level alongside these envelope keys.",
+  "properties": {
+    "_entity": {
+      "description": "Payload class discriminator (e.g. facility|market|iso_grid|queue_results|deal|report|response) — branch on this before parsing the rest.",
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "_front_door": {
+      "additionalProperties": {},
+      "description": "In-band front-door hint (first workflow-entry tool of a session): call plan_query(intent) first for the ordered multi-step plan.",
+      "properties": {},
+      "type": "object"
+    },
+    "_return_loop": {
+      "additionalProperties": {},
+      "description": "Suggested next-session delta call (get_changes since=24h) so you pull only what changed.",
+      "properties": {},
+      "type": "object"
+    },
+    "citation": {
+      "additionalProperties": {},
+      "description": "Machine-readable citation: how to attribute DC Hub (dchub.cloud) for this payload.",
+      "properties": {},
+      "type": "object"
+    },
+    "provenance": {
+      "additionalProperties": {},
+      "description": "Collection-level provenance block: {source, method, as_of, verification_counts, cite_url_template, license, cite_as}. Quote the verification level when citing.",
+      "properties": {},
+      "type": "object"
+    },
+    "quota": {
+      "additionalProperties": {},
+      "description": "Caller quota state (remaining calls, tier) when available.",
+      "properties": {},
+      "type": "object"
+    },
+    "site_evaluation_handoff": {
+      "anyOf": [
+        {
+          "items": {
+            "additionalProperties": {},
+            "properties": {},
+            "type": "object"
+          },
+          "type": "array"
+        },
+        {
+          "additionalProperties": {},
+          "properties": {},
+          "type": "object"
+        }
+      ],
+      "description": "Pre-built follow-up calls (analyze_site / get_water_risk args) when the payload carries coordinates — an array of {tool, parameters, why} entries."
+    }
+  },
+  "type": "object"
+}

Changed9 schema fields changedv2.3.6Jul 2, 2026

addedInput schema / properties / category / description

Added value: +"News topic filter, e.g. deals, permits, outages, policy, AI"

addedInput schema / properties / date_from / description

Added value: +"Earliest published date, ISO-8601 (YYYY-MM-DD)"

addedInput schema / properties / date_to / description

Added value: +"Latest published date, ISO-8601 (YYYY-MM-DD)"

addedInput schema / properties / limit / description

Added value: +"Max results to return (1-500; default varies by tool)"

changedInput schema / properties / limit / maximum

Previous value: -9007199254740991New value: +500

changedInput schema / properties / limit / minimum

Previous value: --9007199254740991New value: +1

addedInput schema / properties / min_relevance / description

Added value: +"Minimum relevance score 0-1 to include an item, e.g. 0.5"

addedInput schema / properties / query / description

Added value: +"Free-text keyword to filter news, e.g. \"Stargate\" or \"interconnection queue\""

addedInput schema / properties / source / description

Added value: +"Restrict to one trade source, e.g. DCD, \"Data Center Frontier\", \"Capacity Media\""

First observedv2.1.19Jun 8, 2026

TDQS

A4.6/5.0

Behavior4/5

Does the description disclose side effects, auth requirements, rate limits, or destructive behavior?

Annotations already declare readOnlyHint, idempotentHint, and destructiveHint, so the description does not need to restate safety traits. It adds useful behavior beyond the annotations: refresh cadence, curation scope, one-round-trip behavior, and returned fields. No contradiction exists.

Agents need to know what a tool does to the world before calling it. Descriptions should go beyond structured annotations to explain consequences.

Conciseness4/5

Is the description appropriately sized, front-loaded, and free of redundancy?

The description is front-loaded with the most important routing caveat, and nearly every sentence adds actionable information. It is somewhat long and dense, but the length is justified by the need to disambiguate from several sibling tools.

Shorter descriptions cost fewer tokens and are easier for agents to parse. Every sentence should earn its place.

Completeness5/5

Given the tool's complexity, does the description cover enough for an agent to succeed on first attempt?

The tool has an output schema and strong annotations, and the description still adds the missing contextual pieces: when to use vs. avoid, an example invocation, source scope, refresh frequency, and sibling exclusions. Nothing critical is missing for an agent to select and invoke it correctly.

Complex tools with many parameters or behaviors need more documentation. Simple tools need less. This dimension scales expectations accordingly.

Parameters4/5

Does the description clarify parameter syntax, constraints, interactions, or defaults beyond what the schema provides?

The schema already documents all 7 parameters with full coverage, so the baseline is 3. The description adds extra value by giving a concrete example call, clarifying that the parameter is 'category' not 'topic', and listing example category values.

Input schemas describe structure but not intent. Descriptions should explain non-obvious parameter relationships and valid value ranges.

Purpose5/5

Does the description clearly state what the tool does and how it differs from similar tools?

The description clearly states that get_news retrieves curated data center industry news from 40+ trade sources and returns fields such as title, summary, source, and published_at. It also distinguishes itself from execute_plan, list_transactions, and get_pipeline by naming exactly what it is not for.

Agents choose between tools based on descriptions. A clear purpose with a specific verb and resource helps agents select the right tool.

Usage Guidelines5/5

Does the description explain when to use this tool, when not to, or what alternatives exist?

The 'FRONT DOOR CHECK' explicitly tells an agent when to call execute_plan instead of get_news, and when get_news is the right call. It also gives negative boundaries for structured M&A data and pipeline data, naming the correct sibling tools.

Agents often have multiple tools that could apply. Explicit usage guidance like "use X instead of Y when Z" prevents misuse.

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