Creative Technology

OMIKINA

A public, evidence-driven atlas for understanding the physical systems beneath American artificial intelligence.

A dark editorial map of the United States visualized as an interconnected AI infrastructure system of data centers, grids, power, fuel, and capital.

Scope & impact

Project context

  • Product Strategy
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Data Visualization
  • D3 Geo
  • Evidence Design

What I did

  • Product strategy and information architecture
  • Research and evidence modeling
  • Interaction and interface design
  • Full-stack implementation
  • Geographic data visualization
  • Editorial systems and daily news monitoring
  • Brand identity and launch direction
  • Testing, accessibility, and deployment

Selected outcomes

  1. Created a guided national overview that explains what keeps AI running in plain language before opening the complete network.
  2. Built a searchable explorer for companies, agencies, projects, facilities, infrastructure systems, and communities with typed dependency relationships.
  3. Separated sourced facts, company-reported claims, inference, project status, and illustrative scenarios so uncertainty remains visible.
  4. Added U.S. places, live evidence signals, market context, and source-level drilldowns without presenting the atlas as a complete national inventory.

Making the machine beneath AI visible

AI is usually described through models, benchmarks, and software. OMIKINA starts one layer lower: every prompt depends on physical machines inside real buildings, and those buildings depend on chips, cooling, electricity, grid capacity, land, equipment, workers, financing, policy, and public permission.

I created OMIKINA to turn that hidden system into a public atlas. The experience begins with a guided national story, then opens into a complete network of entities, physical projects, places, resources, and relationships. Arrows point toward dependencies, making it possible to follow what any selected part needs and what depends on it.

Orientation first, evidence second

The interface is organized around two levels of understanding. The national overview explains the physical chain beneath AI in plain language. The full-network explorer preserves the supporting companies, agencies, infrastructure, facilities, communities, and evidence as drilldown detail.

Selecting an entity opens an intelligence inspector with its role, associated projects, direct connections, dependency traces, evidence status, source links, and current reporting. Search, geographic filters, and the U.S. Places view let people move from a national system toward a state, grid region, company, reactor, data-center project, or public proceeding.

Designing for uncertainty

Infrastructure announcements often mix operating facilities with proposed campuses, company targets, regulatory reviews, and editorial inference. OMIKINA keeps those concepts separate.

Evidence can be labeled sourced, company-reported, inferred, or illustrative. Project delivery status is recorded independently, so a well-sourced project can still be proposed, under construction, or awaiting approval. The geographic view also states that it contains selected sourced locations rather than claiming to be a complete inventory.

That restraint is part of the product design. A polished visualization should help people investigate a system, not create false certainty about it.

A living public atlas

OMIKINA combines product strategy, research, data modeling, interface design, geographic visualization, editorial systems, and implementation. A daily evidence monitor connects current reporting to the same categories used by the atlas while treating news as a discovery signal rather than automatic proof.

The project is built for executives, policymakers, communities, researchers, and anyone trying to understand how the AI economy meets the physical limits of power, manufacturing, construction, water, land, permitting, and public trust.

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