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Agreeing to these terms

By using this site or creating an account, you agree to these terms. If you are agreeing on behalf of an organisation, you confirm you have authority to bind it, and "you" means that organisation. If you do not agree, do not use the service.

What the service is

Regarding Data Centers publishes a dated record of data-center build-out — permit filings, hearings, construction milestones, capacity figures, regulatory activity and the projects they attach to — compiled from the public record and presented as a searchable, navigable product.

It is a research tool. It is not legal advice, engineering advice, or investment advice, and nothing in it is a recommendation to buy, sell or hold anything.

Accounts

Some features require an account. You are responsible for the accuracy of what you tell us, for keeping your credentials secure, and for activity under your account. Tell us promptly if you believe your account has been compromised. Accounts are for a single person — do not share credentials, and do not let others use your seat.

Subscriptions and billing

• Paid plans are billed in advance through our billing provider on the interval shown at checkout, and renew automatically until cancelled.
• You can cancel at any time from /account. Cancellation stops the next renewal; access continues to the end of the period you have already paid for.
• Except where the law requires otherwise, payments already made are not refunded on cancellation.
• We may change prices. Changes apply from your next renewal, never retroactively, and we will tell you before they take effect.
• Taxes are your responsibility where they apply and are not included in a displayed price unless stated.
• The self-serve plan is for one person. Organisational, programmatic and bulk use need institutional terms — see Which plan applies to you below.

Which plan applies to you

The subscription you can buy on this site is sold for individual professional use. It gives one named person access to the feed and to the record behind it. That is the whole of what it grants.

It is not an organisational licence. If you are subscribing on behalf of a company, institution, agency, fund or government body, if more than one person will use the access, or if you need the service under your organisation's name, contract, procurement or security terms, then you need institutional terms and they are arranged separately. Write to [email protected] and we will quote for the use you actually have.

Institutional terms are also the only route to programmatic and bulk use — an API, systematic extraction, redistribution, source-stated records, or incorporating the record into another product or dataset. The acceptable-use section below withholds every one of those rights from a self-serve subscription, and a written licence is what grants them. Buying more self-serve seats does not add up to one.

If you have already subscribed on this site and any of the above describes you, nothing bad happens and nothing is switched off: write to us and we will move you onto the right terms. We would far rather license the use than argue about it afterwards.

Acceptable use

The record we publish is free to read and cite. It is not licensed for bulk extraction. You agree not to:

• scrape, crawl, harvest or systematically download the content at volume, by any automated means;
• republish or redistribute the record in whole or in substantial part, or incorporate it into another product, dataset or model training corpus;
• circumvent or attempt to circumvent rate limits, access controls, the anti-automation challenge, or any paid-tier gate;
• share, resell or sublicense your access, or use one account to serve multiple people;
• probe, load-test, or interfere with the service or the infrastructure behind it;
• use the service to break the law, infringe someone's rights, or misrepresent the record as your own.

Citing individual facts with a link back to the relevant page is welcome and always has been. For research collaborations, licensing, or higher-volume programmatic access, write to [email protected] — we would rather license it to you than block you. Related terms for the portal dataset are at Data license.

What belongs to whom

The underlying facts of public proceedings belong to nobody. The compilation — the selection, structuring, resolution, linking, enrichment and presentation of those facts, together with the site's software, design and written content — is ours, and is protected by copyright and database rights. Your subscription buys access, not ownership, and grants no right to the compilation beyond reading it.

Accuracy, and the due diligence that remains yours

We do not guarantee that this data is accurate, complete or current. We compile it from the public record to the best of our ability and we work to keep that compilation faithful, but it is provided without any warranty of accuracy, and you should not treat it as if it carried one.

The reasons are structural rather than occasional. Public bodies publish late, amend without notice, withdraw documents, and contradict themselves and each other. A jurisdiction that has not filed anything looks identical to one we do not yet cover. Records arrive in formats that must be read by machine, and reading can be wrong. What we publish reflects what was on file when we read it, which is not the same thing as what is true today.

Independent verification is your responsibility. Before you rely on anything here — in an investment decision, a transaction, a filing, a siting or procurement decision, a published claim, or anything else that carries consequence — you must confirm it against the underlying record and the relevant authority. Nothing on this service is a substitute for your own due diligence, and none of it is legal, engineering, financial or investment advice.

Where we can be precise about our own uncertainty, we are. Capacity figures carry an explicit basis — reported, permitted or estimated — and you should read them as that label says. An estimated figure is our derivation, not an assertion by anyone with authority to make it. Where a record does not assert a value we say so rather than guess, and where two records disagree we would rather show you the disagreement than pick a winner quietly.

If you find something wrong, tell us at [email protected]. We would rather correct the record than defend it.

Availability

We aim to keep the service up and to give notice of planned maintenance, but we do not promise uninterrupted availability. We may change, suspend or discontinue features. If we discontinue a paid feature outright, we will refund the unused portion of your current period.

Ending the arrangement

You may stop using the service and close your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate access for breach of these terms — particularly the acceptable-use section — or where we are required to by law. Where circumstances allow, we will warn you first. Sections that by their nature should survive termination do: ownership, disclaimers, liability limits and indemnity.

Disclaimer of warranties

The service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and non-infringement. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, in which case the exclusions above apply only to the extent permitted.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, nor for lost profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or business opportunity, arising from or relating to your use of the service — including any decision made in reliance on the published record — even if we were advised such damages were possible.

Our total aggregate liability arising from or relating to the service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, or one hundred US dollars. Some jurisdictions do not allow these limits, in which case they apply to the extent permitted.

Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from claims, losses and costs, including reasonable legal fees, arising from your use of the service, your breach of these terms, or your violation of the law or a third party's rights.

Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and the state and federal courts located in Massachusetts have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising from or relating to them. Nothing here removes a consumer protection you have under the mandatory law of the place you live.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. The effective date at the top moves when we do. Material changes will be announced to account holders by email before they take effect, and continuing to use the service after that means you accept them.

The rest

If any provision is held unenforceable, the rest stays in force and that provision is narrowed to the minimum extent needed. Our not enforcing a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets. These terms, together with the Privacy Policy and the Data license, are the entire agreement between us about the service.

Contact

Questions about these terms: [email protected].

This service is provided by Regarding Research, LLC.