# 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/<slug>/ 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.