# 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/<state>/<city>/ 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.