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Data & Methods

How The Matched Map Was Built

Site Base

The site layer uses the current one-row-per-Atlas-ID IM3 Open Source Data Center Atlas v2026.02.09 CONUS plus District of Columbia factor snapshot from the final numbered workflow.

Context Sources

The map combines direct ACS variables, CDC/ATSDR SVI, EPA EJScreen indicators, NOAA climate normals, EIA state electricity indicators, and U.S. Drought Monitor context from the current rebuilt datasets.

Spatial Matching

Data-center points keep their official point-derived tract, ZCTA, MSA, state, and HUC identifiers. Geography summaries use the current geography-level files; the current map exposes only metropolitan statistical area summaries at this level.

Map Summaries

For each selected level and theme, the map shows current data-center counts, total square footage, and matched geography-level context. EJScreen summaries are population-weighted block-group values for the full geography.

Source of record: scripts 01-08 and the current files under dataset/geography_level, dataset/association, dataset/cluster, and analysis/.