Claim verdicts
JSON, methodology and every badge use the same eight strings. Green is reserved for Supported.
A verdict applies only to the wording shown.
Company claims are shown as stated; they are not findings.
Independent evidence supports the claim as stated, for the stated period.
A government, regulatory, court, parcel, audited or measured record says this. It is not permanent and does not support every related claim.
Independent evidence supports part of the claim; the rest is unknown or unsupported.
A narrower statement is true. The full statement is not thereby false.
The only support is the claimant or its agents. Shown as stated, not adopted.
We know the company said it. That is not a finding that it is true or false.
Reliable evidence conflicts with the claim as stated.
The wording is wrong on unit, relationship, status or fact. It does not prove bad faith.
The claim referred to a date, trigger or plan that has since passed or lapsed, and no newer evidence has been checked.
Printed with an as-of date. It does not mean the claim is now false.
A non-company party said it and we have not checked it against a primary record.
Different from a company claim. Not a finding that it is false.
We looked; the reviewed sources do not establish it.
Not zero, not absent, not noncompliant.
A commitment or projection whose trigger or deadline has not arrived.
It cannot be graded yet and is not a failure.
Source hierarchy
- Controlling agreements, regulatory orders, permits and audited government records.
- Government operating and financial records; EPA, DOE, Berkeley Lab and similar technical sources.
- Company disclosures, clearly labeled as company claims.
- Responsible secondary reporting used to locate or contextualize primary evidence, not replace it.
Rules that prevent false precision
- A permit is permission, not proof of use.
- A projected job is not observed employment.
- Construction workers, job-years, permanent employees and contractors remain separate.
- Announced investment is not completed investment.
- Withdrawal, consumption, discharge, make-up water and avoided potable use remain separate.
- Developer, owner, operator, tenant, subsidiary and guarantor are not silently merged.
- Local fiscal return, statewide economic effects and neighborhood/resource effects use separate ledgers.
Index and size rules
- A campus, a building, a physical facility and a provider presence are different units.
- Project-lead counts and facility-research counts are separate, overlapping inventories and are never added.
- Anticipated site demand is not measured demand, contracted demand or critical IT load.
- Project size bands use disclosed anticipated site demand. Facility bands use disclosed critical IT load only when a source identifies that scope. Numeric bands are navigation aids, not business-model labels or regulatory definitions.
- A source-listed lead is not independently verified. It enters the verification queue with its provenance intact.
- Licensed directory rows remain in a separate index with their upstream ID, edition, attribution and changes-made marker. They never become canonical records or totals without independent identity and evidence review.
- Withdrawn and expired projects remain in the historical index instead of disappearing.
Lifecycle states
Every status is a dated evidence label, not a prediction: proposed, approved, under construction, preleasing, operating, expanding, paused, withdrawn, expired, closed, demolished or unknown. An approval is not construction; construction is not operation; and an unknown is not a zero or an absence.
How the deepest state indexes compare
Indiana and Ohio use the same field standard, but their published rows still have different units and depths. The table shows why these inventories are useful without being additive statewide totals.
| Evidence area | Indiana | Ohio | Required before comparable totals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Projects + facilities | 9 primary-evidence project/campus records plus one nonphysical contract ledger; 21 facility research records | 20 mixed-register records: 19 project/campus and 1 operating facility; 29 separate facility/building records; 43 separate municipal leads | Reconcile the research-lead list to campuses, buildings and provider presences. |
| Lifecycle + history | Withdrawn and expired records retained; former-name audit incomplete | Current, preleasing and unresolved stages separated; acquisition and closure audit incomplete | Preserve proposals, renames, acquisitions, closures and withdrawals as dated events. |
| Power, water and outcomes | Partial | Partial | Keep incompatible power, water, employment and fiscal measures separate. |
| Claim checking | 8 sourced claim records | 10 sourced claim records | Use the same verdict vocabulary and dated evidence standard. |
National aggregation rules
- A state page is not automatically a statewide census. Each page shows its independently source-linked records, attributed or unresolved rows, dated review window, source families checked and remaining gaps.
- Unresearched counts remain blank. They never enter a national sum as zero.
- Regional and operator totals only combine records with compatible entity units, time periods and measurement scopes.
- A disclosed-capacity total must show how many active records have a comparable figure; unknown capacity remains in the denominator.
Complete-inventory 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 each lead to a project, campus, physical building, provider presence or historical event. Unresolved leads stay visible and out of confirmed totals.
- 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 research leads have been reconciled to the same record unit.
- Keep monitoring after publication. A census is a dated snapshot, not a permanent claim.
Document packets and watch points
A dossier’s source packet lists the controlling or evidentiary records reviewed and explicitly names missing agreements. Page or section locators identify the relevant provision when possible. A watch point may be a date, phase trigger, annual filing, docket event or replacement proposal; an unknown date remains unknown rather than becoming an invented deadline.
Corrections and commercial independence
We publish the source, source period, last-reviewed date and uncertainty with each finding. Better primary records should lead to a visible correction. Sponsorship, if ever accepted, cannot buy a verdict, select only favorable projects, delay a finding or suppress a correction. Editorial findings and commercial relationships remain separate and disclosed.
“Second review complete” means a separate, software-assisted review pass that did not author the record re-read every cited source. It is a workflow check, not a human or outside audit.