# Element Critical (`elementcritical`)

Domain: elementcritical.com · Kind: operator · Priority: 2 · Enabled: yes
License / attribution: Publicly accessible operator pages; factual data only; © Element Critical — attribution “Element Critical”
Coverage: US

# What it collects

Facility records (kind: facility) via parser(s) elementcritical_facility_v1 in apps/worker/src/connectors/operators2/americas.ts.

Fields published by the pages and captured: name, address, city, regionName, postalCode, countryIso2, buildingSqm (property size), totalPowerMw (utility power), tier, certifications. Keyed by street address so metro and facility pages merge.

Every field carries an extraction method in methods (e.g. json-ld:PostalAddress, regex:it_mw_v1, attr:data-value+MW, lookup:city-country) for provenance. Coordinates are only taken from JSON-LD / embedded JSON / map links published by the operator — never geocoded. Status defaults to operational unless the page uses pipeline wording (under construction / coming soon / planned).

# Discovery

Sitemaps: https://elementcritical.com/page-sitemap.xml, https://elementcritical.com/post-sitemap.xml
Include: /data-centers/[a-z0-9-]+/$, elementcritical\.com/[a-z0-9-]+/$
Exclude: \?, #, /(services|service-type|solutions|about|contact|careers|privacy|healthcare-colocation|data-centers)[a-z-]*/$
Classify: /data-centers/[a-z0-9-]+/$ → facility_pages (facility_page); elementcritical\.com/[a-z0-9-]+/$ → newsroom (press_release)

Newsroom URLs (when configured) rely on the GenericConnector news fallback (press_release → news_event when data-center relevant).

# Schedule & fetch

Schedule: facility_pages weekly, newsroom daily, sitemap weekly
Fetch: L1→L2, 15 rpm, concurrency 2, robots.txt respected, max 20 premium credits/run. All pages are served at L1 (plain HTTP); maxLevel is capped at 2 so false-positive “blocked” heuristics (HubSpot / cookie-consent strings) never spend Scrapfly credits.

# Quirks

Facility pages /data-centers// publish a spec table (Location street/city/state/zip, property size, raised floor, utility power MW). Metro pages yield no record.

# Verification (live, 2026-09-11)

try-connector --limit N: discovered 207 URLs (newsroom=201, facility_pages=6); sampled pages → 1 entities, 1 valid, 0 rejected, 0 premium credits.