{
  "schema_version": "0.2",
  "published": "2026-09-11",
  "purpose": "A common evidence and completeness standard for every state. State datasets may use different source-native fields during migration, but no state may silently change the meaning of a count.",
  "record_units": {
    "project_or_campus": "A named development, agreement or campus. It may contain several physical buildings.",
    "physical_facility_or_building": "A distinct physical site or operator-identified building. A tenant suite or network presence inside it is not another building.",
    "provider_presence": "A service, tenant or network presence whose physical-building relationship is unresolved. Excluded from facility counts until reconciled.",
    "lifecycle_event": "A dated proposal, approval, opening, expansion, sale, rename, pause, withdrawal, closure or demolition attached to the stable entity rather than counted as another entity."
  },
  "lifecycle_statuses": [
    "proposed",
    "approved",
    "construction",
    "preleasing",
    "operating",
    "expanding",
    "paused",
    "withdrawn",
    "expired",
    "closed",
    "demolished",
    "unknown"
  ],
  "common_fields": {
    "identity": ["stable_id", "record_unit", "current_name", "former_names", "developer", "owner", "operator", "tenant", "legal_entities"],
    "location": ["address", "city", "county", "state", "parcel_or_site_notes", "coordinates", "coordinate_precision"],
    "lifecycle": ["current_status", "status_basis", "first_announced", "opened_or_energized", "closed_or_withdrawn", "history_events"],
    "physical_scale": ["building_count", "square_feet", "acres", "critical_it_mw", "utility_service_mw", "measured_load_mw", "capacity_scope"],
    "power": ["utility", "grid_region", "interconnection_or_tariff", "grid_upgrades", "cost_allocation", "ratepayer_evidence"],
    "water_and_cooling": ["cooling_architecture", "closed_loop_scope", "evaporative_role", "liquid_cooling_role", "source_water", "permitted_withdrawal", "measured_withdrawal", "measured_consumption", "discharge", "wue"],
    "economics": ["announced_investment", "completed_investment", "construction_jobs", "permanent_jobs_promised", "permanent_jobs_observed", "taxes_paid", "incentives_authorized", "incentives_claimed", "public_expenditures", "community_payments"],
    "evidence": ["claim_status", "source_title", "source_url", "source_type", "document_date", "page_or_clause", "last_verified", "confidence", "missing_evidence"]
  },
  "null_rule": "Unknown, not disclosed, not yet due and not applicable are distinct values. Missing evidence never becomes zero.",
  "completeness_protocol": [
    "Build a discovery union from operator lists, state and local records, utility and commission dockets, permits, tax and incentive records, historical archives and commercial directories used only as leads unless licensed.",
    "Resolve every lead to a stable project, campus, building, provider-presence or historical-event identity; keep unresolved leads visible.",
    "Check current and former names, subsidiaries, acquisitions, closures and withdrawals so a rename neither deletes nor duplicates a site.",
    "Publish a statewide total only after the named source families and candidate queue have been reconciled to the same record unit.",
    "Continue monitoring after publication because a census is a dated snapshot, not a permanent claim of completeness."
  ],
  "coverage_audit": [
    {
      "state": "Indiana",
      "projects": "reviewed subset plus attributed discovery queue",
      "facilities": "21 research records; 16 address-resolved operating sites",
      "history": "withdrawn and expired records retained; six dated events in the cross-state seed; former-name and closure reconstruction incomplete",
      "map": "available for reviewed records",
      "power": "partial; scope-labeled where public",
      "water_and_cooling": "partial project evidence; facility-level coverage sparse",
      "economics": "selected projects and dossiers; not statewide-complete",
      "claim_checks": "eight-item reviewed state claim desk",
      "all_discoverable_records_reconciled": false
    },
    {
      "state": "Ohio",
      "projects": "17 reviewed project/campus records",
      "facilities": "29 operator-identified facility/building records with lifecycle labels; 43 separate New Albany municipal project leads not promoted to the facility count",
      "history": "three dated Ohio events in the cross-state seed; selected acquisitions and inconsistencies retained; closures and former-name reconstruction incomplete",
      "map": "available for reviewed records using disclosed Census geography centroids",
      "power": "partial; utility, IT and company design figures kept separate",
      "water_and_cooling": "partial claims and permit evidence; measured facility use sparse",
      "economics": "selected project claims, statute and one local fiscal dossier; not statewide-complete",
      "claim_checks": "nine-item reviewed state claim desk",
      "all_discoverable_records_reconciled": false
    }
  ],
  "hard_limit": "No public method can prove the absence of undisclosed private server rooms. 'Every' therefore means every evidence-identified facility, project and historical lifecycle record within a published, dated source audit—not every unobservable installation."
}