Machine Readable
Machine Readable fuses government datasets that were never meant to be read together and publishes the analysis free for advocates, journalists, and anyone trying to understand their city.
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October 13, 2026
Irrigation used up about 101 trillion liters in 2015; every US data center combined used 0.86% of that. One day of farm use equals about 117 days of data centers. Most charts in this fight mix water taken out with water used up - a 31x cheat.
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October 16, 2026
Denver recorded 105,585 market sales from 2020 to October 2026: the median price rose from $450,000 in 2020 to a $595,000 peak in 2022 and has held between $525,000 and $550,000 since, and the share of sales at or under $500,000 fell from 57.2 percent to 47.4 percent.
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October 15, 2026
Denver permitted 11,585 new residential buildings and 3,837 demolitions from January 2020 to October 2026, a net of 7,748 structures; 60 percent of demolitions were followed by a new-building permit at the same address, and 11 neighborhoods demolished more than they built.
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October 15, 2026
21,426 premises remain in Denver Water's Lead Reduction Program: 18,775 are in the City and County of Denver, one in ten city premises, and in five neighborhoods more than half of all inventoried premises are still in the program.
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October 14, 2026
7,017 permits in force: 71.4% are not owner occupied, 49.9% of investor permits are owned from outside Davidson County, and only 5.2% sit on single-family parcels.
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October 12, 2026
The viral 500 mL-per-prompt figure is 10 to 50 times off from its own source. What the paper actually said, what Google reports, and what nobody has measured.
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October 12, 2026
1,381,852 service requests across 2023-2025: the apparent late-2025 collapse in encampment reports was a category migration, not a real decline, and geocoded field-work resolution in District 6 ran about 3.6x slower than District 11 in 2023.
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October 11, 2026
30,902 permits vs the city's own growth plan: 75% of new homes went up outside it, 81% away from rail. The plan is decorative.
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October 10, 2026
3,521 bike crashes vs infrastructure: 80% happened where there's no bike lane. The lanes go where the crashes aren't.
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October 8, 2026
731 observations + 311 weed complaints vs Colorado's noxious weed lists: the case for upgrading tree of heaven from List C to List B, or for Denver to act alone.
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October 8, 2026
Denver spends roughly $105,000 per long-term housing exit (about $178.1M against roughly 1,700 exits): a 43% housing-exit rate for people brought indoors, and shelter beds at roughly $34,000-$36,000 per bed per year, on par with permanent housing.
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