META is building a massive (AI)-focused data centre in northeast Louisiana. The site footprint is 2,250 acres of land - making the Hyperion Data Center one of the largest data-center construction sites ever attempted in the United States. It is a nearly five-mile-long, one-mile-wide tract of land that is being developed to power Meta’s AI ambitions.It is hard to understand the true scale of a

With inflation making a night out increasingly expensive, getting drunk can cost a small fortune. To save your wallet, I created Drunk Map - a way to experience the dizzying effect of looking at a map while inebriated, without spending a cent on today’s sky-high alcohol prices.There’s no practical purpose to Drunk Map, but it serves as a neat demonstration of how you can access and

Since the United States’ controversial military operation in Venezuela - including the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro - and in light of recent threats by Donald Trump to invade a NATO ally, there has been renewed interest in the long history of U.S. military interventions around the world.American Empire: A Century of Global Military Presence is a new interactive atlas that visualizes

Ankur Gupta has created an impressive Map Poster Generator. The code for which is available on GitHub.While the original repository is fantastic for developers, it also requires a local Python setup, terminal commands, and the installation of geospatial libraries like OSMnx and GDAL - which can be intimidating if you aren't a coder.I’ve therefore adapted the core logic into a Google Colab

One of the biggest problems I face when riding across the prairie is identifying the cattle ranching owners of lost steers. Which is when I turn to Ranch Brand Search!Ranch Brand Search is an interactive map that brings one of the most distinctive traditions of the American West into the digital age. Instead of leafing through dusty brand books or wrestling with outdated state websites, users

Are you feeling lucky? You probably should be. Based on where most Maps Mania readers are located, there’s a good chance you’ve already won the birth lottery.The Birth Lottery map makes global inequality tangible by illustrating how much our quality of life depends on chance. With a single spin, the map randomly “re-births” you somewhere in the world based on real statistics. It poses a simple