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Digital Infrastructure Scorecard

The burden (data centers — air, water, grid) AND the benefit (broadband — the rural telehealth on-ramp), grouped by the four PHIT Health Lenses. Built for the two mandates funders ask for: efficiency and rural health. Every number carries a source label so nothing reads as false precision.

National view
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Environmental Health — The Burden
Where · Dr. Rob · air, water & the machine next door
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Social Health — Grid, Cost & Civic
Us · Coach Lucy · who pays, who decides
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Physical Health — Outcomes to Watch
Me · Dr. Rob · presence → exposure → outcome
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Connectivity — The Benefit (Rural Health)
Where + Us · Coach Lucy · the telehealth on-ramp
The efficiency + rural-health case lives here: broadband is the cheapest per-capita health-access investment, and rural counties carry both the sharpest connectivity gap and a growing share of the siting burden. This lens is where the "cost without the benefit" trade becomes visible.
LIVE — pullable open feed REAL — published figure MODELED — estimated NEEDS SOURCE — not wired yet
Open backbone (all FIPS-joinable): OpenStreetMap/Overpass · EPA ECHO / FRS (NAICS 518210) · EPA EJScreen · CDC PLACES · U.S. EIA Open Data · FCC National Broadband Map / ACS digital-equity. Proposals & subsidies: Data Center Watch · Good Jobs First · FERC RM26-4. Evidence: Caltech / UC Riverside (2024) · EDGI · LBNL 2024 U.S. Data Center Energy Usage Report.
"— wire —" cards are LIVE-ready slots: the source is identified, the join is defined, the feed connects on deploy. Figures marked REAL reflect the best available public reporting as of mid-2026; contested ranges are shown as ranges. Grant-facing framing uses demographic / population-segment language. Not legal, financial, or clinical advice.
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