The physical foundation.
Mechanical and HVAC knowledge informs cooling, equipment requirements, maintenance planning, and the interfaces between facility systems.
About Eco TerraVault
The experience behind the infrastructure.
Headquartered in Chicago, Eco TerraVault brings together mechanical systems expertise and digital infrastructure operations for private- and public-sector data-center projects across the United States.
OUR MISSION
Help modernize and develop ethical, resilient data centers that support digital progress while respecting water resources, energy affordability, local ecosystems, and the communities they serve.
WHAT WE BRING
Understand the facility.
Understand the operation.
Our founders’ complementary backgrounds shape how we approach a project: from the equipment and environment to the digital services, recovery priorities, and people the facility supports.
The operating perspective.
Enterprise infrastructure and operations experience brings reliability, cybersecurity, recovery, technology dependencies, and the demands of AI workloads into the infrastructure conversation.
The path to action.
We connect these perspectives through clear scopes, specialist coordination, visible dependencies, and practical readiness and handover planning.
OUR FOUNDERS
Complementary experience.
A shared direction.
Joseph “Joe” Melendez and Roberto Almeida bring the mechanical and technology perspectives behind Eco TerraVault’s work in above-ground facilities and underground development.
CO-FOUNDER
Joseph “Joe” Melendez
Mechanical systems & facility infrastructure
Joe brings more than three decades of experience in the mechanical engineering field, including work with multibillion-dollar companies. His background in mechanical systems and HVAC informs cooling, equipment requirements, maintenance planning, and coordination across facility systems.
A U.S. Army veteran and Purple Heart recipient, Joe brings a practical perspective to Eco TerraVault’s infrastructure work. He connects equipment and systems planning with site requirements, construction coordination, and long-term operating needs.
CO-FOUNDER
Roberto Almeida
Enterprise infrastructure, data science & operational resilience
Roberto brings more than two decades of experience in technology infrastructure and operations, including managing Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) for major Fortune 500 companies. His expertise spans data centers, IT infrastructure, site reliability engineering (SRE), disaster recovery, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), data science and analytics, and geographic information systems (GIS).
At Eco TerraVault, he connects enterprise operating requirements with infrastructure assessment, modernization planning, and AI workload readiness. He applies these disciplines to infrastructure intelligence, spatial analysis, and evidence-based decision support, connecting security, reliability, recovery, and community context with the decisions that shape a facility.
OUR OBJECTIVES
Practical needs today.
Responsible development ahead.
Our service work supports customers’ immediate infrastructure decisions. Alongside it, research advances the modular underground concept through technical evaluation and learning.
Strengthen operational resilience
Connect facility systems with service continuity, reliability, maintenance, and disaster-recovery requirements.
Make informed lifecycle decisions
Help customers evaluate modernization, cooling upgrades, recovery, reuse, decommissioning, and sunsetting against their operating needs.
Develop above-ground and underground infrastructure
Bring site requirements, facility planning, systems coordination, and build readiness into a disciplined development process.
Respect resources and communities
Evaluate water supply, energy costs, local ecosystems, equipment life, and community interests together, using project-specific evidence.
Advance American ingenuity
Support domestic infrastructure capability and national resilience, with approaches that can serve local needs and compete globally.
OUR LONG-TERM VISION
Infrastructure planned
for its full life.
Ethical data-center infrastructure that serves operators, communities, and the country’s long-term digital needs.
We connect responsible retrofits and new above-ground and underground development with ongoing research into modular facility concepts. Water, energy, ecosystems, and community interests belong alongside reliability and performance in that work.
CHICAGO BASED · NATIONWIDE PERSPECTIVE
Explore the footprint.
Understand the context.
Every infrastructure decision starts somewhere. Explore documented data-center buildings by state, drawn from an open national-lab research dataset.
Explore the wider picture.
Open Eco TerraVault Intelligence Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands are included in our dedicated research workspace, alongside facility records and sourced historical reports.
A documented building inventory—not a complete count of U.S. data centers or a live operating-status feed. A campus may contain multiple buildings.
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None recorded1–910–4950–99100+
Alaska and Hawaii shown as insets. Colors show recorded building counts, not capacity or environmental performance.
About the data and its limits
One consistent counting unit.
Counts of distinct building-layer IDs in the published IM3 snapshot, grouped by state. Campus and point layers are excluded; county-boundary duplicate rows are counted once. Includes the 50 states and District of Columbia; excludes territories. This is incomplete mapped coverage, not a census of facilities or an inventory of currently operating data centers. Zero means no buildings recorded in this layer, not no data centers.
This snapshot covers mapped building records. It does not verify current operating status, provide a separate count of planned projects, or include every private, government, or enterprise facility.
Evidence with boundaries.
The map is industry context. It does not represent Eco TerraVault customer sites, operated facilities, certifications, or environmental ratings.
Building counts alone do not measure power demand, water use, computing capacity, or the suitability of a state for development.
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Scope and source credits
Data: Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. Map boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau, via us-atlas.
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| State / district | Mapped buildings | Coverage note |
|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 8 | Partial inventory |
| Alaska | 0 | None recorded; not a verified absence |
| Arizona | 42 | Partial inventory |
| Arkansas | 2 | Partial inventory |
| California | 97 | Partial inventory |
| Colorado | 17 | Partial inventory |
| Connecticut | 4 | Partial inventory |
| Delaware | 0 | None recorded; not a verified absence |
| District of Columbia | 0 | None recorded; not a verified absence |
| Florida | 11 | Partial inventory |
| Georgia | 27 | Partial inventory |
| Hawaii | 0 | None recorded; not a verified absence |
| Idaho | 4 | Partial inventory |
| Illinois | 42 | Partial inventory |
| Indiana | 3 | Partial inventory |
| Iowa | 58 | Partial inventory |
| Kansas | 7 | Partial inventory |
| Kentucky | 3 | Partial inventory |
| Louisiana | 0 | None recorded; not a verified absence |
| Maine | 1 | Partial inventory |
| Maryland | 8 | Partial inventory |
| Massachusetts | 3 | Partial inventory |
| Michigan | 8 | Partial inventory |
| Minnesota | 10 | Partial inventory |
| Mississippi | 1 | Partial inventory |
| Missouri | 12 | Partial inventory |
| Montana | 2 | Partial inventory |
| Nebraska | 21 | Partial inventory |
| Nevada | 33 | Partial inventory |
| New Hampshire | 3 | Partial inventory |
| New Jersey | 46 | Partial inventory |
| New Mexico | 10 | Partial inventory |
| New York | 16 | Partial inventory |
| North Carolina | 14 | Partial inventory |
| North Dakota | 1 | Partial inventory |
| Ohio | 81 | Partial inventory |
| Oklahoma | 4 | Partial inventory |
| Oregon | 100 | Partial inventory |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | Partial inventory |
| Rhode Island | 0 | None recorded; not a verified absence |
| South Carolina | 10 | Partial inventory |
| South Dakota | 2 | Partial inventory |
| Tennessee | 15 | Partial inventory |
| Texas | 113 | Partial inventory |
| Utah | 13 | Partial inventory |
| Vermont | 0 | None recorded; not a verified absence |
| Virginia | 281 | Partial inventory |
| Washington | 71 | Partial inventory |
| West Virginia | 0 | None recorded; not a verified absence |
| Wisconsin | 9 | Partial inventory |
| Wyoming | 15 | Partial inventory |
National reach. Site-specific judgment. From Chicago, we help private- and public-sector teams evaluate infrastructure, resources, and operational needs across the United States.
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