# Ark Data Centres (`arkdatacentres`)

- **Domain**: `www.ark-d-c.com` · **Kind**: operator · **Priority**: 2 · **Enabled**: yes
- **License / attribution**: Publicly accessible operator pages; factual data only; © Ark Data Centres — attribution “Ark Data Centres”
- **Coverage**: GB, BE

## What it collects

Facility records (`kind: facility`) via parser(s) `arkdc_facility_v1` in `apps/worker/src/connectors/operators2/emea.ts`.

Fields published by the pages and captured: name, city (town named on page), countryIso2, lat/lng (parcel, map JSON), tier, pue, siteAreaHa, status. Animated MW counters are ignored (render as 0).

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.ark-d-c.com/sitemap.xml`
- Include: `/locations/[a-z0-9-]+$`, `/insights/.`
- Exclude: `\?`, `#`
- Classify: `/locations/[a-z0-9-]+$` → facility_pages (facility_page); `/insights/.` → 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

Campus pages /locations/<slug> (arkdatacentres.co.uk redirects here). MW counters are JS-animated (render as 0) and are NOT extracted; map JSON latitude/longitude, Tier, PUE and acreage are.

## Verification (live, 2026-09-11)

`try-connector --limit N`: discovered 29 URLs (facility_pages=8, newsroom=21); sampled pages → 4 entities, 4 valid, 0 rejected, 0 premium credits.