{"product_id":"atlas-data-centers-1-698-u-s-facilities-reliability-graded-kmz-for-atak-tak-aware-google-earth","title":"ATLAS Data Centers — 1,698 U.S. Facilities | Reliability-Graded KMZ for ATAK, TAK Aware \u0026 Google Earth","description":"\u003ch2\u003e1,698 data centers. Every pin tells you how much to trust it.\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA single KMZ mapping \u003cstrong\u003e1,698 U.S. data center facilities\u003c\/strong\u003e across \u003cstrong\u003e420 operators\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003e49 states\u003c\/strong\u003e — hyperscale campuses, wholesale halls, carrier hotels, and single-cage colocation suites.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLocation data for data centers is genuinely messy. Operators publish inconsistently or not at all, aggregators copy each other's mistakes, and automated geocoders fail in ways that look completely plausible. Most map products hide that behind a uniform set of pins, so a point dropped on a city centroid looks identical to one sitting on a verified loading dock.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis file grades every facility instead.\u003c\/strong\u003e Five confidence tiers, colour-coded, separated into folders you can toggle. You always know whether you're looking at a Census-verified street address or a rough locality guess.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e⚠️ Reference use only — please read\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis is a research and reference aid. It is not a survey product, not a navigation aid, and not a source of operational truth.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePositions range from Census-verified building addresses down to city-centroid approximations. \u003cstrong\u003eNot every pin is on the right building, and some are not on the right street.\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe dataset is a snapshot. Facilities are built, sold, renamed, expanded and decommissioned constantly.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNothing here is authorization to access, approach, or enter any property. Every site shown is private commercial property.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCompiled entirely from public sources.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVerify independently before relying on any point for a decision that matters.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you need survey-grade or operationally certified location data, this is not that product — and no amount of colour-coding makes it that product.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHow the colour coding works\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eColour is a claim about \u003cstrong\u003epositional confidence\u003c\/strong\u003e — how well-supported that facility's coordinate is. It is \u003cem\u003enot\u003c\/em\u003e a claim about facility size, capacity, or importance. A 300 MW hyperscale campus can carry a red pin if its address was never made public.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e🟢 GREEN — VERIFIED · 566 facilities\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nBacked by ATLAS master data \u003cstrong\u003eand\u003c\/strong\u003e a U.S. Census \u003cem\u003eExact\u003c\/em\u003e geocode. A specific street address that resolved to an exact match against the federal address database, corroborated internally.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eTrust: facility-level. As good as the dataset gets.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e🔵 BLUE — HIGH · 528 facilities\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nA specific street address, strongly supported, but below the Census-Exact bar — usually a non-exact geocode return, or corroboration from one strong source rather than two.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eTrust: very likely correct. Should be on or beside the right building.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e🟡 YELLOW — GOOD · 139 facilities\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nA street address exists, but either source strength or the fit between coordinate and stated locality warrants a check.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eTrust: solid starting point. Confirm before acting.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e🟠 ORANGE — APPROXIMATE · 109 facilities\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nThe position is a campus, road, intersection, or street-range anchor — not one verified building door. Common for large multi-building campuses and sites identified in planning documents by parcel rather than address.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eTrust: right site, roughly. Not the right door.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e🔴 RED — LOW \/ NEEDS RESEARCH · 356 facilities\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nNo exact street address established. Placed on the best available locality, often a city or ZIP centroid.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eTrust: directional only. The facility is real and the general area is probably right; the pin is not a claim about the building.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA red pin is a disclosure, not a defect.\u003c\/strong\u003e These facilities are included because knowing a site exists in a metro is useful even when its exact address isn't public — and many are hyperscaler sites the operators deliberately don't publish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eInside every placemark\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTap any pin for a formatted popup carrying up to \u003cstrong\u003e24 fields\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFacility\u003c\/strong\u003e — name, operator\/company, facility ID, type\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eResolved location\u003c\/strong\u003e — street, city, state, ZIP\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eKnown location\u003c\/strong\u003e — prior city, state, ZIP and county on record, shown beside the resolved values so you can see what changed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePosition\u003c\/strong\u003e — latitude, longitude, MGRS, site ID\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eGrading\u003c\/strong\u003e — map reliability, locality reliability, address status, confidence, address precision\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance\u003c\/strong\u003e — internal corroboration, facility match status, validation flags, address source, dataset source\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEvidence\u003c\/strong\u003e — the reasoning and source trail behind the placement\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery field appears on every placemark. Where a value was never established it reads \u003cstrong\u003e\"Not established\"\u003c\/strong\u003e rather than being quietly filled with a guess.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eFile structure\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFive folders matching the confidence tiers, so whole reliability classes toggle on and off:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1 — VERIFIED Census Exact (Green) · 566\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2 — HIGH reliability (Blue) · 528\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3 — GOOD reliability (Yellow) · 139\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4 — APPROXIMATE \/ Anchor (Orange) · 109\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5 — LOW \/ Needs Research (Red) · 356\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBuilding an analysis that needs defensible positions? Switch off orange and red. Doing research and want the gaps visible? Leave everything on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eCompatibility\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eATAK \/ CivTAK \/ iTAK \/ WinTAK\u003c\/strong\u003e — drop into Data Packages or import directly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTAK Aware\u003c\/strong\u003e (iPhone)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eGoogle Earth Pro\u003c\/strong\u003e (desktop) and \u003cstrong\u003eGoogle Earth Web\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQGIS\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eArcGIS\u003c\/strong\u003e, and other KML\/KMZ-capable GIS software\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAny application reading standard \u003cstrong\u003eOGC KML 2.2\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCustom icons are embedded — no external fetches, no broken pins. \u003cstrong\u003eFully functional offline once loaded.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFile:\u003c\/strong\u003e single .kmz, ~304 KB · \u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e OGC KML 2.2 with embedded PNG icon set\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWho it's for\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInfrastructure and network analysts mapping colocation and peering footprints\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSite selection and commercial real estate researchers surveying regional density\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEmergency management and continuity planners identifying infrastructure concentrations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAmateur radio, SIGINT and RF operators correlating infrastructure with spectrum activity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOSINT researchers and journalists who need provenance, not just dots\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEducators teaching geospatial data quality\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eSources \u0026amp; methodology\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery position is traceable. Each placemark carries Address Source, Dataset Source, Internal Corroboration and Evidence \/ Notes fields recording where that address came from and how it was checked.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eU.S. Census Bureau Geocoding Services\u003c\/strong\u003e — the public federal address geocoder. An Exact match defines the green tier. 674 facilities carry a Census geocode in their evidence trail.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eOperator location pages and facility directories\u003c\/strong\u003e — companies' own listings, matched on published facility codes (DC3, AZP-1, NNJ3) so the match is self-checking rather than inferred.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePeeringDB\u003c\/strong\u003e — used to corroborate carrier-hotel and colocation addresses.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCounty and municipal public records\u003c\/strong\u003e — parcel records, rezoning filings, planning-commission documents, building permits.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublic utility and regulatory filings\u003c\/strong\u003e — environmental permits, power-interconnection applications.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLocal and trade press\u003c\/strong\u003e — corroboration, particularly for recently announced sites.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOn directory sources.\u003c\/strong\u003e Third-party data center directories are useful for finding candidates and unreliable as final authority. During compilation, published listings were found placing one facility ~50 miles from its actual county, another in the wrong state entirely, and a third at an address belonging to a different facility in the same operator's portfolio. Where sources conflicted, the conflict is recorded in the Evidence \/ Notes field rather than quietly decided.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAll sources are public.\u003c\/strong\u003e No proprietary, purchased, leaked, or authentication-scraped data is used anywhere in this product.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eDataset attribution\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eData centers © Ringmast4r — Global-Data-Center-Map\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Ringmast4r\/Global-Data-Center-Map\"\u003ehttps:\/\/github.com\/Ringmast4r\/Global-Data-Center-Map\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe base facility inventory is the ATLAS \/ Global Data Center Map dataset by Ringmast4r, used under its licence, which permits commercial products with required attribution. This product is a \u003cstrong\u003ederivative work\u003c\/strong\u003e, not a repackaging — added on top of the base inventory: address research and verification, U.S. Census geocoding, coordinate correction, five-tier reliability grading, the colour-coded KMZ build, and the per-facility evidence trail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eTerms\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSingle-user licence for internal reference and research. Redistribution, resale, or repackaging of this KMZ is not permitted. 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