Erin Brockovich Launches Website to Map U.S. AI Data Centers and Collect Community Feedback

Erin Brockovich launched the Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting website on April 27 to map major AI data centres operating or under construction across the United States. The site displays facility locations, supplies links to news coverage of individual projects, and includes a form allowing residents to submit details about centres built, planned, or proposed in their communities.

Brockovich wrote in a Substack post that some communities have accepted facilities after open discussion of impacts and negotiated benefits.

She stated that other projects follow a different pattern: permits secured before public notice, developers unresponsive to calls, and local officials signing nondisclosure agreements ahead of neighbor awareness. Since the April 27 launch, the site has collected more than 3,800 reports from residents describing rising utility bills, unexplained animal illness, and worries over long-term health and property values.

Brockovich noted that isolated complaints appear limited until communities are viewed together.

She wrote that the compiled reports reveal a national pattern rather than scattered local disputes. A data centre project backed by Kevin O'Leary in Box Elder County, Utah, drew resident opposition last month. Some residents sought a public vote on the project, but the effort did not succeed.

Hundreds of people marched in Vancouver at the end of May against two planned AI data centres. In Olds, Alberta, a residents' group formed to oppose a proposed facility in the town of about 10,000 people, citing potential health effects, noise, and emissions.

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