{
    "name": "San Antonio Data Centre Environmental Record API",
    "description": "What federal environmental regulators hold about San Antonio data centres, found by NAICS classification rather than by operator name. Publishes the absences with equal weight: nothing here is modelled, and there is no megawatt, gallon or job figure anywhere in it.",
    "meta": {
        "built": "2026-08-30T03:27:22+00:00",
        "retrieved": "2026-08-30",
        "register": "US EPA, Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) facility register",
        "searched_by": "NAICS classification, not operator name",
        "area": {
            "name": "San Antonio-New Braunfels metropolitan statistical area",
            "counties": [
                "Atascosa",
                "Bandera",
                "Bexar",
                "Comal",
                "Guadalupe",
                "Kendall",
                "Medina",
                "Wilson"
            ],
            "note": "A published federal boundary. County comes from the coordinates, never from the county string on the filing, which tool #10 measured wrong on real rows."
        }
    },
    "overlap": {
        "facilities": 8,
        "unambiguously_absent_from_city_permit_record": 4,
        "permit_tool": "https://brandshyp.org/api/v1/data-centers",
        "corroboration_tool": "https://brandshyp.org/api/v1/dc-corroboration",
        "do_not_sum": "This is a count of federal registrations carrying a data-centre NAICS code, not a count of data centres. Facilities here appear on both sibling tools. Adding any two of the three totals counts places twice."
    },
    "totals": {
        "facilities": 8,
        "title_v_major_sources": 7,
        "ghg_reporters": 0,
        "in_emissions_inventory": 1,
        "unambiguously_absent_from_city_record": 4,
        "absent_and_title_v_major": 4,
        "unplaceable": 0,
        "inside_box_outside_msa": 0
    },
    "the_finding": "The City building-permit record has no data-centre category, which is the thesis of https://brandshyp.org/san-antonio-data-centers/. The federal environmental register does have one: NAICS 518210 and 541513. Searching by classification reaches 4 facilities the City permit record does not contain, 4 of which hold a Clean Air Act Title V major-source permit.",
    "endpoints": {
        "facilities": "https://brandshyp.org/api/v1/dc-environment/facilities",
        "absent": "https://brandshyp.org/api/v1/dc-environment/absent",
        "air": "https://brandshyp.org/api/v1/dc-environment/air",
        "quality": "https://brandshyp.org/api/v1/dc-environment/quality",
        "csv": "https://brandshyp.org/api/v1/dc-environment/facilities.csv",
        "openapi": "https://brandshyp.org/api/v1/dc-environment/openapi.json"
    },
    "documentation": "https://brandshyp.org/san-antonio-data-center-environmental-record/",
    "not_a_count": {
        "what_this_is": "A count of facilities carrying a data-centre NAICS code in the federal environmental register, which is a count of REGISTRATIONS, not of data centres.",
        "never_add": "These facilities overlap both /san-antonio-data-centers/ and /san-antonio-data-center-corroboration/. Adding any two of the three totals double counts.",
        "no_power_figure": "Nothing here is a megawatt, a gallon or a job. A Title V major-source classification is potential to emit, not consumption, and this tool estimates nothing."
    },
    "caveats": {
        "not_a_count": "This is a count of federal registrations, never a count of data centres, and it must never be added to the site count on /san-antonio-data-centers/ or the place count on /san-antonio-data-center-corroboration/.",
        "nothing_is_modelled": "No figure here is estimated. There is no megawatt, gallon, or job figure anywhere in this tool, because no machine-readable government record carries one for these facilities.",
        "capacity_not_use": "A Clean Air Act Title V major-source classification describes the POTENTIAL to emit if equipment ran to its permitted limit. Standby generators run when the grid fails. It bounds nothing about normal electricity use.",
        "different_thresholds": "Title V major-source status covers criteria pollutants and is about potential; the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program covers actual reported CO2e against a 25,000 tonne floor. A facility can cross the first and sit under the second with no inconsistency. The pair is not a contradiction.",
        "substation_not_load": "A substation is provisioned headroom and serves a network, not one customer. Where the register records substation construction, that is what is reported, never what it powers.",
        "absence_of_a_permit": "A facility with no Title V permit is not a facility with no generators. It is one the register does not classify as a major source, which can mean smaller equipment, a different permit type, or a filing this search did not reach.",
        "a_permit_is_not_a_building": "As on the sibling tools, a registration is a permission or a notification, not proof that anything was built or is running."
    },
    "source": {
        "register": "US EPA, Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) facility register",
        "api": "https://echodata.epa.gov/echo/echo_rest_services",
        "searched_by": "NAICS classification, not operator name",
        "naics": {
            "518210": "Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting",
            "541513": "Computer Facilities Management Services"
        },
        "area": {
            "name": "San Antonio-New Braunfels metropolitan statistical area",
            "counties": [
                "Atascosa",
                "Bandera",
                "Bexar",
                "Comal",
                "Guadalupe",
                "Kendall",
                "Medina",
                "Wilson"
            ],
            "note": "A published federal boundary. County comes from the coordinates, never from the county string on the filing, which tool #10 measured wrong on real rows."
        }
    }
}