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The real\nbackend host only appears inside the compiled JS bundles, found by fetching\neach `/_nuxt/*.js` chunk linked from the page and grepping for URL literals:\n\n```\ncurl \"https://carbonmonitor.org/_nuxt/2349017.js\"   # and 5 sibling bundles\n```\n(bundles ranged 83,756–388,542 bytes, fetched 2026-10-05T10:25:15Z–10:25:22Z).\nEmbedded literals revealed the production API base `https://datas.carbonmonitor.org/API/`\n(note: \"datas\", not \"data\"), a staging mirror at\n`staging.datascarbonmonitor.wedodata.dev`, a sibling product at\n`carbonmonitor-graced.com`, and a separate China deployment at\n`carbonmonitor.org.cn` — none of these hostnames are linked from the rendered\npage or its HTML.\n\nProbing the real API unauthenticated:\n```\ncurl -i \"https://datas.carbonmonitor.org/API/carbon_global\"\ncurl -i \"https://datas.carbonmonitor.org/API/carbon_us\"\n```\nBoth returned, 2026-10-05T10:25:32Z–10:25:33Z: HTTP 401,\n`content-type: application/json`, but a body that is **plain text, not JSON**:\n```\nUnauthorized\n```\n(12 bytes, not even wrapped in quotes as a valid JSON string — a strict JSON\nparser expecting the declared `application/json` content-type would fail to\nparse this body at all). 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