Ethics policy

Last updated June 9, 2026

A site that holds billion-dollar companies to account has to hold itself to the same standard. These are the rules this project operates under. They are commitments, not aspirations — if you catch us breaking one, say so publicly.

Money and independence

Reader-funded only. No advertising, no corporate sponsorship, no industry money, no consulting for companies we cover. Operating costs and funding are disclosed on the about page.
Donations buy nothing. No donor — at any amount — gets edits, removals, early access, or softer coverage. Donor identities are never published or shared (see donor privacy).
No pay-for-removal, ever. We do not accept payment, in any form, to remove or alter a record. Records change for exactly one reason: the evidence changed.
No positions in covered companies. The operator holds no individual stock in, and accepts no compensation from, any data-center operator, developer, or utility in the database.

Sourcing standards

Every figure traces to a public record — a filing, docket, permit, registry, or dataset — and carries a confidence grade. Claims we can't source don't ship.
“Operating” status requires two independent sources. Single-source rows are labeled “mapped” — the difference is visible, not buried.
Community reports are reviewed by a human and labeled as community-reported until verified against records.
Known gaps are published on the coverage scorecard rather than papered over.

Right of reply

Any company, official, or person named in the database can dispute a record by emailing [email protected] with the primary source that contradicts ours. Disputes get the same treatment regardless of who sends them: we re-check the record, and if we were wrong we fix it within 72 hours and log the change publicly in the corrections log. What companies cannot do is have accurate records removed for being unflattering.

Corrections

We'd rather be corrected than be wrong. Every change to a published figure is logged with the date, the before and after values, the source, and who flagged it — permanently and in public. Silent edits are a firing offense at organizations with someone to fire; here they would be a reason to stop trusting the site, so they don't happen.

People vs. infrastructure

This project scrutinizes corporate infrastructure and public money — not workers. We publish facility, entity, and subsidy records; we don't publish home addresses or personal information of employees, and we ask reusers of the data to honor the same line (it's in the terms).

AI use, disclosed

We use AI for entity extraction, document processing, and the Ask DCX research tool — always against sourced records, never to generate facts. AI-assisted outputs are labeled where they appear, and a human is responsible for everything published.