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Infrastructure Watch

What is being built before communities fully see it.

2779 markets tracked·db·EPA ECHO · OpenFEMA · Tier 1

→ Grid Burden · → Public Cost · → Human Impact · → Market Pressure · → Disclosure Gap

Global DC electricity
415 TWh
≈1.5% of world total
European Commission
Projected 2030
945 TWh
more than double · AI-driven
International Energy Agency
US DC electricity ’23
176 TWh
≈4.4% of US total
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (DOE)
US projection ’28
325–580
TWh · 6.7%–12% of US
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (DOE)
Domain
Status
2,779 facilities
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N. AmericaEuropeAsia-PacificLatin AmericaMiddle East & Africa● size ≈ scale◆ sea · ▲ spacedashed = building/proposed · dim = inactive◉ light ring = backed by a public recordnumbered ◍ = cluster (click to zoom to real locations) · click a site for its infodrag or scroll to pan · pinch or +/− to zoom
Explore the map

Click a cluster to zoom in to the real locations. Click any site for its info — operator, status and the public record — right on the map. Open the full DCES profile from there.

DCES — Data Center Externality Score

Energy intensity
Power demand, PUE, peak-load behaviour
Carbon integrity
Real decarbonisation vs annual REC matching
Water risk
WUE, source, watershed stress, cooling method
Grid impact
Interconnection, transmission, ratepayer cost
Community burden
Land, noise, air permits, jobs per MW, subsidy
Hardware lifecycle
Refresh cycles, e-waste, critical minerals
Regulatory exposure
Reporting duties, permits, audits, penalties

Live capital-market signal · SEC EDGAR

Recent filings disclosing data-center power commitments — the earliest publicly discoverable signal in the Knowledge Lead-Time Gap.

Querying SEC EDGAR full-text search…

Live public-record signal · FCC / FAA

Sea & space public-record trail — submarine cable landing licenses and satellite/orbital authorizations, the regulatory signal that precedes formal local notice for marine and space-adjacent data-center infrastructure.

Querying FCC ECFS public records…

Permit & public-record tracker · lifecycle stage

Corralling fragmented public records — county building permits, planning/rezoning cases and land-use applications (Prince William & Loudoun VA, Mesa AZ, Austin TX) plus public-domain news — into one lifecycle trail. Each row shows the source’s own status word, verbatim; the colored tint is our normalization to proposed → approved → under construction → operational, never a substitute for the record.

Querying public-record lifecycle signals…

Aggregate figures sourced (European Commission · IEA · DOE-LBNL · EESI). Market locations are real; per-market MW are industry-estimate scale figures, not audited single-facility data. DCES bands are externality assessments — evidence to be verified, never accountability by themselves (LAW 1).

Environmental Compliance Signals · EPA ECHO

fetched 6/20/2026, 3:45:55 PM

NAICS 518210 (Data Processing, Hosting & Related Services) facilities with active EPA environmental compliance records across data-center hotspot states. SNC = Significant Non-Compliance as reported by EPA — verbatim public record, no editorial judgment.

EPA ECHO returned no NAICS 518210 records at this time — the feed is honest, no placeholder data shown (LAW 1). Try again shortly or check echo.epa.gov ↗ directly.

Source: EPA ECHO (Enforcement and Compliance History Online) ↗ · Tier 1 · Primary federal record · No API key · Keyless public endpoint. SNC status and inspection data are the U.S. EPA’s own reporting. Aggregator, not author — no opinions applied (PAT-035).

Disaster Resilience Context

No recent federal disaster declarations available — OpenFEMA may be temporarily unreachable.

Source: OpenFEMA · Tier 1 · Public federal record

Power Trace

Phase A · Pending

What energy infrastructure is forming around the facility — power plants, gas pipelines, transmission upgrades, backup generation, and air permits? Power Trace correlates utility interconnection queues, EPA air permit filings, and FERC generation records to surface the energy footprint of a proposed facility before it is fully visible.

ECI sub-layer: Infrastructure Watch · EASTON-LMC-2026-06-17-ECI-DOCTRINE, APEX RATIFIED 2026-06-17. Phase A — doctrine registered. No data wiring in current phase. Early Consequence Intelligence →

How the industry can do betterBEI · Better Standard

Meaningful public notification before permit applications are filed — not after approvals. Environmental impact disclosure covering grid load, water consumption, and emergency capacity requirements before ground is broken. Independent cumulative-impact review across data-center clusters, not just individual project approvals.