Pre-launch research mode. The demo below is live and uses real public data. Paid signups open later this summer — questions or interest? hello@civitar.org
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Public data + AI · supporting the communities that bear AI's costs

What the public record actually shows about the data center near you.

A free Site Briefing on any U.S. data center, generated in about a minute from 9 public data sources (USGS, NASA, USFWS, Census, GBIF, JRC), written in plain language. Built for the people, journalists, and intervenor counsel who otherwise carry the cost of the buildout.

Civitar is solely for informational and educational purposes. Not engineering practice, not legal advice, not a regulatory submission.

How it works

Three steps. Every value cited.

Civitar pulls cited public-record data on any U.S. data-center site into a single briefing. Free tier covers one briefing a month. Unlimited unlocks site-specific recommended interventions and an implementation roadmap.

1

Pick a U.S. data center

Search by name, address, or pan the map. Civitar covers existing and proposed facilities nationwide.

2

Read the Site Briefing

Eight categories of public-data context — water, biodiversity, environmental justice, noise, heat, air, vegetation, groundwater — each finding cited to its source, in plain language. Where construction history is known, vegetation / heat / groundwater / EJ findings compare pre- and post-construction windows.

3

Unlock recommendations (optional)

Unlimited subscribers get site-specific mitigation recommendations with rationale, scope, trade-offs, and a phased implementation roadmap. Advisory only — retain a licensed engineer for any implementation.

Who it's for

Four audiences. One common starting point.

Civitar doesn't take positions for or against any project. It gives every audience access to the same public-data context so the conversation that follows is grounded in shared facts.

Community members

Living next to (or near) a proposed or existing site. Want to know what the public record shows before the next council meeting.

Local journalists

Covering the data-center buildout in your county or state. Need cited environmental and demographic data on deadline.

Intervenor counsel

Representing residents, watershed councils, or conservation groups in permit proceedings or community-engagement processes.

Newsrooms, libraries, universities

Institutional accounts unlock multi-seat access, white-label PDFs, and bulk briefing exports for newsroom collaboration or research.

Live sample

Try a real briefing.

Pick any of 10 real data-center sites. Toggle Free vs Unlimited to compare what each tier shows. Click Show technical detail on any finding for the raw data and source.

Site
Pricing

Pay what you can — including nothing.

Free tier covers one Site Briefing per month forever. Unlimited unlocks the Mitigation Designer and saved-site alerts. Institutional rates serve newsrooms, libraries, and conservation orgs on a sliding scale. Donations help keep Civitar free for the communities who need it most.

Free
$0 / month
  • 1 Site Briefing per month
  • All 9 public-data layers
  • Plain-English findings + sources
  • Site-specific recommendations
  • Saved sites + email alerts
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Institutional
$50–500 /yr
  • Everything in Unlimited
  • Multi-seat (1–10) for newsrooms, libraries, orgs
  • Sliding scale by org size
  • White-label PDFs
  • Bulk CSV export
  • Priority support
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Donations
Any amount
  • Help keep Civitar free for communities
  • One-time or recurring
  • Not tax-deductible (for-profit LLC)
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Methodology

What makes Civitar trustworthy.

We surface what public data shows. We cite every numeric value. We don't make biological-opinion, engineering, or legal determinations. Our methodology is open and our source code is public.

9
Public data sources cited per briefing (USGS, NASA, USFWS, EPA, Census, GBIF, IUCN, JRC, ESA)
100%
Citation discipline: every numeric value traces to its source via the post-processor citation linter
0
Fabricated numbers — pipeline rejects briefings containing unsourced values
Open
Source code is public on GitHub. Methodology documents are versioned and indexed