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Erin Brockovich Just Launched an AI Data Center Map — and It Highlights a Growing Problem Tech Giants Are Avoiding
The crowdsourced map aims to track proposed and existing data centers as tech companies invest billions in AI infrastructure, activists said.
- On Tuesday, environmental activist Erin Brockovich launched a citizen platform tracking AI data center projects across the country through a real-time map inviting public updates.
- Major tech companies including Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Google and OpenAI collectively spend at least $700 billion this year on AI infrastructure, according to CNBC, highlighting electricity demands, water usage and grid strain.
- Community submissions total more than 2,700 reports, with Texas accounting for more than 600, while the website documents 15 local moratoria on data center projects and six zoning or permit denials.
- Brockovich wrote on the map webpage: 'I am watching you, communities showing up and speaking out,' leveraging her $333 million settlement victory against Pacific Gas and Electric Company over water contamination.
- Communities across the United States are moving to regulate or block new data center construction, while President Donald Trump's administration has taken a largely hands-off approach to AI regulation despite ongoing investment.
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Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country
Erin Brockovich, the environmental activist whose name and work you may recognize from the Oscar-winning movie Erin Brockovich, has created a tool to map data centers across the country, along with a form for people to report data centers and their impacts in their community. “The RACE to build AI infrastructures is unfolding town by town across America. In some places, data centers are welcomed,” Brockovich writes on the site (emphasis hers). “…
PG&E Nemesis Erin Brockovich Tilts at New Windmill — Energy-Intensive AI Data Centers
The veteran environmental activist says thousands have submitted details to a crowdsourced reporting map tracking the spread of resource-consuming artificial intelligence facilities.
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