D3 Visualization
NOVA Data Center Energy Usage
Interactive D3 project translating utility filings, environmental data, and infrastructure reporting into a scrollytelling view of how Northern Virginia's data center boom is reshaping energy demand, water use, and grid strain.
Stack
D3.js, TypeScript, Vite, TopoJSON, d3-sankey
Impact
Turned fragmented public-source reporting into a clear, source-cited narrative about one of the most important infrastructure stories in Northern Virginia.
NOVA Data Center Energy Usage
This project explores how data center growth is reshaping energy demand, water use, and infrastructure pressure in Northern Virginia.
What I built
- Demand-growth timeline and capacity views
- Regional facility mapping
- Grid-stress and energy-source views
- Water-use and economic context sections
- A scrollytelling structure that ties the whole story together
Why it matters
The underlying data lives across utility filings, planning documents, and public reports. This project pulls those pieces into one clearer, interactive narrative.
What this project shows
- strong D3 and interactive visualization work
- ability to synthesize many public data sources into one usable story
- interest in infrastructure and regional systems
- judgment about how to explain complex topics without flattening them
Interactive demos
View the original interactive D3 visualizations on the legacy D3 projects page .