Brockovich AI Datacenter Reporting: AI Data Centers Across the United States

Brockovich AI Datacenter Reporting is a community-driven map and reporting hub that catalogs major AI-focused and hyperscale data centers across the United States, showing operational, under construction, permitted, proposed, and cancelled projects alongside locations where residents have emailed concerns. Data points come from Compute Atlas, Epoch AI, news reports and public filings; map popups include source citations, note when coordinates are approximate, and identify whether a site sits inside a municipality or on unincorporated county land (which affects where zoning hearings occur). The site highlights practical details useful to local advocates: ownership when known, project status, and geographic checks against U.S. Census TIGER boundaries, plus a noise simulation tool and photos submitted by users. The map was last updated October 4, 2026.

The initiative, led by an environmental advocate with decades of experience, argues that a national race to build AI infrastructure is unfolding town by town and that community oversight matters. It emphasizes concrete local impacts - high electricity demand, heavy water use for cooling, growing e-waste, site vulnerability to floods or disasters, supply and infrastructure strain from rapid scale-up, and persistent noise from cooling and generators - and invites residents to report issues via a form that accepts location details, ownership, status, descriptions and photos. The stated goal is to protect communities, promote sustainability and amplify resident voices.