# Ark Data Centers (Involta) (`involta`)

Domain: www.arkdna.com · Kind: operator · Priority: 2 · Enabled: yes
License / attribution: Publicly accessible operator pages; factual data only; © Ark Data Centers — attribution “Ark Data Centers (formerly Involta)”
Coverage: US

# What it collects

Facility records (kind: facility) via parser(s) arkdna_facility_v1 in apps/worker/src/connectors/operators2/americas.ts.

Fields published by the pages and captured: metro-level record: name, city, regionName, countryIso2, buildingSqm, tier, certifications.

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://www.arkdna.com/sitemap_index.xml
Include: /data-centers/[a-z-]+/[a-z-]+/$, /news/, /press-releases?/
Exclude: \?, #, /data-centers/(data-center-locations|data-center-services)/
Classify: /data-centers/[a-z-]+/[a-z-]+/$ → facility_pages (facility_page); /(news|press-releases?)/. → 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

Involta rebranded as Ark Data Centers (arkdna.com; involta.com redirects). Metro pages /data-centers/// describe 1–2 facilities per metro with total square feet, Tier and certifications; recorded as one metro-level record.

# Verification (live, 2026-09-11)

try-connector --limit N: discovered 34 URLs (facility_pages=3, default=1, newsroom=30); sampled pages → 4 entities, 4 valid, 0 rejected, 0 premium credits.