# VIRTUS Data Centres (`virtus`)

- **Domain**: `virtusdatacentres.com` · **Kind**: operator · **Priority**: 2 · **Enabled**: yes
- **License / attribution**: Publicly accessible operator pages; factual data only; © VIRTUS Data Centres — attribution “VIRTUS Data Centres”
- **Coverage**: GB, DE, IT

## What it collects

Facility records (`kind: facility`) via parser(s) `virtus_facility_v1` in `apps/worker/src/connectors/operators2/emea.ts`.

Fields published by the pages and captured: per site: name, code, city, countryIso2, itCapacityMw (MW of IT load), buildingSqm (net technical m²); per campus: campus record with campusName.

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://virtusdatacentres.com/index.php?option=com_osmap&view=xml&tmpl=component&id=1&format=xml`
- Include: `/locations/[a-z]+/[a-z-]+/[a-z0-9-]+$`, `/locations/[a-z-]+-data-centres-[a-z0-9-]+$`, `/news/`, `/press-releases/`
- Exclude: `#`, `/locations/(uk|eu|germany)$`, `/locations/germany$`
- Classify: `/locations/[a-z]+/[a-z-]+/[a-z0-9-]+$` → facility_pages (facility_page); `/locations/[a-z-]+-data-centres-[a-z0-9-]+$` → 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

Joomla site; sitemap via com_osmap. Facility pages /locations/<country>/<metro>/<slug> publish IT load (MW) and net technical m² for the named LONDONn/BERLINn site.

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

`try-connector --limit N`: discovered 125 URLs (facility_pages=17, default=1, newsroom=107); sampled pages → 5 entities, 5 valid, 0 rejected, 0 premium credits.