Overview
- Brockovich, who launched the Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting site in late April, has received roughly 2,700 public submissions that plot operational, under‑construction and proposed AI‑focused data centers across the country.
- The site lists 33 operational facilities, 44 under construction and 27 proposed projects while flagging top community complaints about heavy electricity use, large water needs for cooling, noise and electronic waste.
- Submissions are crowdsourced and publicly posted but not fully independently verified, so the map is best read as a transparency tool that documents community concern rather than a validated registry.
- The reporting already records concrete local pushback — multiple moratoria, permit denials and even electoral consequences — showing how siting fights are reshaping local politics and planning decisions.
- Brockovich’s effort joins independent studies and local activism in reframing AI as industrial infrastructure with real local effects, and the dataset could inform advocacy, utility planning or regulatory review as tech firms expand AI centers.