Legal notices
Publisher
ScoreMyDataCenter, an independent observatory founded by Franck Bardol. Contact: contact@scoremydatacenter.org. The publisher's legal status and address will be stated at publication.
Hosting
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Intellectual property and licences
The project is open by design (“we open the truth”):
- Scoring engine and parsers: AGPL-3.0.
- Data: licence by source — OpenStreetMap and DCWatch (Hubblo) under ODbL, institutional open data under Licence Ouverte or its own licence; every displayed value cites its source.
- Methodology and editorial content: CC BY-SA 4.0.
The code and the data are public on GitHub. Press articles are never reproduced: only the link, an archived copy and the extracted fact are published.
Personal data
The site sets no cookie and uses no advertising tracker. Audience measurement (Cloudflare Web Analytics) is cookie-free and holds no personal data. The grades contain no personal data: elected officials' positions are recorded only as voted facts (deliberations), never as a person's name.
When personal data appears in our content, it is limited to public, professional facts (deliberations, votes, public positions taken by people acting in a project). Purpose: informing about the acceptability of data-center projects. Basis: legitimate interest, balanced against the rights of the persons concerned. We build no personal profile and infer no intention. To exercise your rights (access, rectification, objection): contact@scoremydatacenter.org.
Disclaimer — about the rating
ScoreMyDataCenter is an independent observatory assessing the acceptability risk of data center projects. Published grades are a methodical assessment grounded in public, sourced facts. A grade is an evaluation resulting from applying the published methodology to the available data. It is neither a regulatory certification, nor a measure of the project's legal compliance, nor an investment or boycott recommendation. They are published as a contribution to the public-interest debate.
Open method. The methodology (indicators, weights, thresholds, sources) is public, dated and versioned: anyone can verify and recompute a grade. A grade expresses estimated acceptability against the state of the art at its date; it can evolve with the project or with a methodology revision.
Facts, not intentions. Information about persons (notably elected officials) is limited to public facts (votes, deliberations, public positions); no intention is imputed.
Neutrality. ScoreMyDataCenter calls for no boycott or action against any company.
Independence, correction and response
We help the project, never the grade. Scored entities never pay for their public grade. An operator may have its project analysed (improvement levers); but the public grade moves only when the real project changes — new sourced facts, audit-logged re-scoring. “Pay to raise the grade” is structurally impossible (that capture is what killed the rating agencies' credibility).
Data correction. ScoreMyDataCenter publishes its grades from the information available at the indicated date. Anyone can report inaccurate or incomplete information, attaching a verifiable source or supporting document. After verification, corrections are integrated and dated. When the change affects the calculation, the grade is recomputed under the same version of the method.
Operator responses. The operator concerned can send a response about a datasheet. That response can be published in a dedicated space, clearly attributed and dated. ScoreMyDataCenter may refuse or shorten content unrelated to the datasheet, manifestly unlawful, needlessly abusive, promotional, or containing unnecessary confidential or personal information. Publishing a response never changes the grade automatically: it only moves when new or corrected facts change the result produced by the method.
Where a piece of information is particularly sensitive or uncertain, ScoreMyDataCenter may contact the operator before publication. This voluntary response space is distinct from any formal legal right-of-reply request, which would be handled as such.