Index.

Every Bright discovery, plainly: 215 records with their evidence state, the date the source was published, the date Bright added it, and where it sits on the physical scale. The 14 scales on the front page are a curated edition drawn from this list.

17 of 215 records, sorted by scale (descending). Scale is approximate: the size of the subject itself, or of the setting where the work happens. Records with no honest physical size are off the axis.
RecordScaleEvidencePublishedAdded to BrightWho
More time to decide when to plant.On the scale: a subcontinent’s rains ≈ 2,000 km, size of the settingDeployed2025-12-022026-09-07India Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, University of Chicago Development Innovation Lab, India Meteorological Department
A flood map reaches places without gauges. ≈ 100 km, size of the settingDeployed2026-08-182026-09-19Google Research
A smoke alert still reaches a person. ≈ 20 km, size of the settingDeployed2025-05-082026-09-09Pano AI, NVIDIA
A Finnish district-heating network has used data-center heat since 2015. ≈ 10 km, size of the settingDeployed2025-08-272026-09-19Nivos, Nordic Investment Bank, Municipality of Mäntsälä
A city report separates today’s campus workforce from expansion forecasts. ≈ 1 km, size of the settingDeployed2025-06-272026-09-19City of New Albany, Ohio, Meta
A city-owned reuse loop cut one data-center campus’s demand for potable groundwater. ≈ 1 km, size of the settingDeployed2026-07-062026-09-19City of Quincy, Washington, Microsoft, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
A construction safety role became a data-center operations career. ≈ 1 km, size of the settingDeployed2022-10-192026-09-19Google, Alphabet
Google’s careers material maps the work inside a data center. ≈ 1 km, size of the settingDeployednot shown by the source2026-09-19Google
Making room in a data centerOn the scale: a computing campus ≈ 1 km, size of the settingDeployed2025-05-142026-09-07Google DeepMind, Google
A grower sees water stress before walking the field. ≈ 100 m, size of the settingDeployed2026-06-162026-09-19İmeceMobil, Microsoft
A hybrid cooling system cut direct water use at an operating national-laboratory data center. ≈ 100 m, size of the settingDeployed2019-05-012026-09-19National Renewable Energy Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Johnson Controls
Lasers matched the herbicides.On the scale: a field ≈ 100 m, size of the settingDeployed2025-06-242026-09-09Cornell AgriTech, Rutgers University, Western Growers
A public archive that starts with your question. ≈ 30 m, size of the settingDeployed2025-11-182026-09-07National Archives and Records Administration, National Archives Foundation
A boat that notices what it collects. ≈ 5 m, size of the settingDeployed2024-10-172026-09-09Clearbot, NVIDIA
Reasoning weights people can run themselves.On the scale: the laptop in front of you ≈ 30 cm, size of the settingDeployed2025-08-052026-09-07OpenAI
A screen reader that can take a follow-up question. ≈ 15 cm, size of the settingDeployed2025-05-152026-09-07Google, Project Euphonia, University College London Centre for Digital Language Inclusion
A warehouse robot that knows when to stop squeezing.On the scale: an item in a robot’s grip ≈ 8 cm, size of the settingDeployednot shown by the source2026-09-07Amazon Robotics

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