Data Center Data Sources
Sources behind the computecompute.org data center tracker
computecompute.org documents data centers and the government approvals behind them. Every record on the site links back to its source.
| Source | URL | License | Data Provided |
|---|---|---|---|
| Epoch AI Frontier Data Centers and GPU Clusters | epoch.ai/data/data-centers | CC BY 4.0 | Baseline dataset of large-scale AI data centers and GPU clusters, including location, operator, and capacity estimates |
| Wikidata | wikidata.org | CC0 1.0 | Facility identifiers, ownership, and location data used to cross-reference and disambiguate sites |
| US EPA FRS/ECHO | echo.epa.gov | US public domain | Facility registry identifiers and environmental compliance and enforcement history |
| California permit records | Air district registers, CEC SPPE/AFC dockets, CEQAnet | Public records (CPRA) | Air permits, backup generator registrations, and environmental review filings for California facilities |
| Virginia permit records | Virginia DEQ air permits, county land-use case records | Public records (VFOIA) | Air permits, backup generator inventories, and land-use approvals for Virginia facilities |
| Irish public records | Local authority planning registers, An Coimisiún Pleanála case records, EPA licensing, EirGrid and CRU publications | Public records (FOI Act 2014) | Planning permissions, EPA industrial emissions licences, and grid connection policy records for Irish facilities |
| US EPA eGRID | epa.gov/egrid | US public domain | Grid region emissions factors, used as inputs to the site's clearly-labeled emissions estimates |
| Operator self-published fact pages | Individual operator websites | Facts individually cited | Facility-specific facts published by the operator, each cited to its source page |
| County parcel records | County assessor and GIS parcel layers (Loudoun, Prince William, Fairfax, and growing) | County public records | Parcel identity and ownership of record for facility sites, each parcel citing the county's own record; private individuals' names are not published |
| Press reporting, via UnGovr News | computecompute.org/press | Facts from cited press coverage | Facility records confirmed from press coverage, with each press event linking its source article |
The IM3 Open Source Data Center Atlas (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, ODbL 1.0) is consulted internally to identify facilities for research. No atlas data is republished on this site; every published fact traces to the sources above. Commercial data-center directories are not used.