Who is named here, and why

The rule

Map power, not people. A person appears only in the official or professional role that a cited public document gives them, and only while that role is relevant to a data center decision or permit. Nothing on this site is about anyone as a private individual.

Who appears

• Companies and public bodies. Operators, developers, project LLCs, consultants and engineers of record, contractors, law firms, brokers, utilities and investors named on permits, filings, parcel records or public decisions; the boards, commissions, authorities and agencies that decide; the dockets and orders that gate them.
• Elected and appointed officials — a supervisor, council member or planning commissioner — as a public roster, agenda or minutes lists them, with the vote or action the document records.
• Municipal staff acting in role — a solicitor, engineer, zoning officer or manager — where minutes or the municipality's own site name them handling a data center item.
• Company officers and counsel of record — the executive who announced a deal in a filing or press statement, the attorney who appeared before a board or on a docket — in that role only.

Each of these is one row in the public people file, and each row carries the URL of the document that names the person in that role. A row without a document does not exist.

Who never appears

• Residents who speak at a hearing, sign a petition or file an objection. Civic participation is not a reason to have a file. Public comment is summarized as counts (“200 residents attended”), never by name.
• Individual land sellers. An assemblage of 96 parcels is listed as “96 landowners”. Deed records are cited for the buying entity, not the sellers.
• Anyone without a cited document. No inference, no “likely”, no social media.

What is never collected

No email addresses, phone numbers, home addresses, photographs, social media accounts, family members, or anything about a person outside the role. The data model has no fields for these, and the validator that gates every write rejects a cell that looks like an email or phone number. Monitoring means dockets, agendas, minutes, trackers, bulletins and filings — never people.

How names are published

People appear as text on the page for the place or company they act for, next to the role and the source. There are no per-person pages, no Person structured data, and no links between a name and anything but the document that names it. Companies and public bodies do get their own pages and Organization markup.

Recorded and pending

Every relationship is either recorded — a document says it happened — or pending — a vote, application or transfer that is scheduled or filed but not decided. “Pending” is never a prediction of an outcome.

Corrections and removal

If a row is wrong, or names someone outside a public role, tell us. Send the page, the row and, where you have one, the document to corrections@datacenterpermits.org, or use the form. We acknowledge within three working days, check against the cited source, and either change the record and log the change here, or explain why the record stands. A person whose role has ended can ask for the row to carry an end date; a row that fails this policy is removed.