Newest sealed read: 2026-08-24. We read this source about every 7 days. We hold 12 sealed runs going back to 2026-06-09.
What this page is53 rows held · newest sealed read 2026-08-24
- We watch 5 sites in Ohio. We hold 53 dated pictures of them, sealed across 12 weekly reads from 9 Jun 2026 to 24 Aug 2026.
- 30 of those 53 pictures are clear enough to compare. The others are held too, and named on the page about pictures we could not use.
- What those 5 sites are filed under, by count: Google 3, Meta 1, Stargate 1.
- Bare ground moved five points or more 3 times across 2 of the 5 sites we watch in Ohio. The widest single move was at Google Columbus, 52.3 points less bare between 20 Jul 2026 and 27 Jul 2026.
- Nothing in Ohio moved five points or more between our last two sealed sets, 17 Aug 2026 and 24 Aug 2026. We say that rather than dress an unchanged reading up as a change.
Real rows out of our sealed copies
These are rows we read out of dated pictures we keep ourselves. The pictures themselves stay public: every row names its scene, so you can go and pull the same picture we read. What is not out there is this — the same fixed list, read the same way every week, with the weeks the sky took off us named rather than skipped.
| Site | Bare ground, before and after | What moved | Two dated sets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Columbusgoogle-columbus-oh | 92.7% → 40.4% | 52.3 points less bare | 20 Jul 2026 → 27 Jul 2026pictures taken 17 Jul 2026 and 22 Jul 2026 |
| Stargate Lordstownstargate-lordstown-oh | 21.3% → 32.7% | 11.4 points more bare | 20 Jul 2026 → 27 Jul 2026pictures taken 14 Jul 2026 and 14 Jul 2026 |
| Google Columbusgoogle-columbus-oh | 50.8% → 36.6% | 14.2 points less bare | 15 Jun 2026 → 22 Jun 2026pictures taken 2 Jun 2026 and 19 Jun 2026 |
| Site | Filed under | Pictures we hold | Pictures we could compare | Moves of 5 points or more | Newest set it is in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Lancastergoogle-lancaster-oh | 12 | 6 | 0 | 24 Aug 2026 | |
| Stargate Lordstownstargate-lordstown-oh | Stargate | 11 | 5 | 1 | 24 Aug 2026 |
| Google Columbusgoogle-columbus-oh | 10 | 9 | 2 | 24 Aug 2026 | |
| Google New Albanygoogle-new-albany-oh | 10 | 5 | 0 | 24 Aug 2026 | |
| Meta Prometheus New Albanymeta-prometheus-new-albany-oh | Meta | 10 | 5 | 0 | 24 Aug 2026 |
What this page cannot tell you
- This is pictures, not permits. Nothing on this page is a filing, an approval, an announcement or a contract. It is what a satellite picture of the same square of ground showed on two different days. We publish no megawatt figure and no percent-built figure anywhere in this feed, because neither of those things is in a picture, and putting one next to a satellite reading would be inventing it.
- Every picture covers the same fixed square, 65,536 pixels of it, centred on the site. That square takes in whatever else sits around the site — fields, roads, a car park, a neighbour's land. A move on this page is a move across the whole square. It is not a measurement inside a boundary, because we do not have the boundary.
- Bare ground can fall because grass and crops grew back over the summer, and it can rise because a field beside the site was harvested or ploughed. We do not separate weather and farming from work on the site, and we will not pretend to. On a site surrounded by farmland, read a summer fall in bare ground as the season before you read it as anything else.
- A cloudy picture is never compared. We only put two pictures side by side when at least half of each one is readable and no more than two fifths of it is cloud. 537 of the 671 pictures we hold clear that bar. The rest are kept and named on the page about pictures we could not use, not quietly dropped.
- Five percentage points is our line and we chose it, so here is the arithmetic behind it. We can compare 416 pairs of pictures. 316 of them move by less than five points and 100 move by five or more. Below five points a reading is inside the week-to-week wobble of this measure, so we do not call it a change.
- The day we sealed a picture is not the day the picture was taken. A satellite passes when it passes and the sky has to be clear, so a set sealed on one Monday can carry a picture taken up to 14 days earlier. Both dates are on every row above, and we never present the sealed date as the date the ground looked like that. In 5 of the 100 moves we publish, the later set's picture was in fact taken no later than the earlier set's, because a set carries the newest CLEAR picture rather than the newest one. Read the picture dates, not the sealed dates, when you check a move.
- We read this list about once a week and the newest set we hold was sealed on 24 Aug 2026. We do not promise you next week's pictures on this page. If a week goes by without a sealed set, this page starts saying so in its own words at the top, and it will keep saying so until we read the list again.
- This page covers the 5 sites we watch in Ohio and nothing else. The watched list was fixed before we started reading and we have not added to it, so a site in Ohio that is not named above is one we do not hold a single picture of. Email operations@ustechautomations.com and we will say so straight.
See the file we hold
You do not have to take our word for what is in the file. Here are 25 rows of the real thing, carrying all 12 of its columns, cut out of the dated copies we sealed ourselves. Nothing in it is made up and nothing in it is tidied up.
- Open the 25 rows as a CSVA plain spreadsheet file. It saves to your machine rather than painting itself into a browser tab, and it opens in Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets.
- The same 25 rows as JSONThe same rows again, laid out for reading with code.
Nothing on this page is for sale. The sample file is free to read, and so is every row on the page above it.
These 25 rows are a slice of the file, not the whole of it. What we cannot show you here is how far back it goes: the file goes back further than these rows do.
Start the thread
No pay button on this one yet. Email operations@ustechautomations.com. We are not charging for this feed. A monthly price is a promise that a new file turns up next month, and we will not make that promise until we can tell building work apart from a crop growing — in 48 of our 91 recorded moves the bare-ground reading falls while the green reading rises, which is the shape a field closing over makes, and bare and green move in opposite directions in 89 of the 91, so they are one reading and not two. The dated copies below are real and they are free to read. Name the sites or the states you follow. We reply with which weeks we hold for them, and which weeks the cloud took off us, before you spend anything.
Email us about the pictures we holdTell us the sites or states you follow in the first email. If a site is not on our frozen list we will say so rather than let you think we watch it.
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