04/06/2026
Erin Brockovich took on a corporation poisoning a town's water supply and won. Now she's turning her attention to the infrastructure powering artificial intelligence.
She's launched Brockovich Data Center Reporting — a project designed to map the rapid spread of AI and hyperscale data centers across the United States before their full impact on surrounding communities becomes impossible to reverse.
The site tracks facilities that are already operating, under construction, or in the proposal stage. But what makes it different from a simple map is what it asks communities to contribute. Local residents can report what they're actually experiencing — water use, electricity demand, noise pollution, e-waste, rising utility bills, environmental changes in their neighborhoods.
Because the costs of data centers aren't always visible in the headlines.
They show up in water bills when a facility draws millions of gallons from local aquifers. They show up in electricity costs when a data center's demand strains the regional grid. They show up in the noise, the heat, the environmental footprint of facilities that are enormous, power-hungry, and often built faster than communities can assess what's arriving.
As AI grows, Big Tech needs more of everything. More power. More water. More land. More facilities. And those facilities are being built somewhere — in someone's county, near someone's water source, on someone's grid.
Brockovich is asking communities to document what they see now, while the picture is still forming.
She made her name fighting polluted water in Hinkley, California.
Now she's watching what gets built beside yours. 💧⚡
