A public record of data centers and the government approvals behind them
ComputeCompute is the data center member of the UnGovr Monitors family. It is a public record of which jurisdiction approved each aspect of every facility: the city that granted the conditional use permit, the water district that signed the will serve letter, the air district that permitted the generator fleet, the utility that agreed the interconnection. Where the facilities are and what they consume is recorded as the context those decisions were made in.
Some approvals arrive later. A facility's power draw can require new generation or transmission that will need permits of its own, and where a public filing records that chain, such as a utility interconnection study or resource plan, the record follows it.
It is an observatory, not a campaign, and the party under assessment is always the government. Operators appear throughout the record as the holders of permits and the recipients of subsidies, but what the record documents is jurisdictions and their approval structures; it never grades a company. A non-response is recorded as not disclosed, never an accusation.
The five tracks
- Subsidies
- What did the public offer, and what was promised in return?
- Power and water
- What does each facility draw, who agreed to supply it, and what approvals does that demand set in motion?
- Siting
- Which body approved each site, and under what conditions?
- Operators
- Who holds each approval, and who uses the capacity?
- Disclosure
- What was released, and what was withheld?
Part of UnGovr Monitors
ComputeCompute is a member of the UnGovr Monitors network, alongside Civil Grand Jury, CA Oversight, Sheriff Oversight, and WatchWatch. It is operated by UnGovr, a nonprofit organization providing non-partisan government information and tools globally.
The model is United States first; the United Kingdom and Ireland follow.
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