<p id="speakable-summary" class="wp-block-paragraph">Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has a new mission: bringing more transparency to data center construction and the impact those data centers have on nearby communities.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Brockovich — who was famously <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Brockovich_(film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">played by Julia Roberts</a> in a film dramatizing her legal case against Pacific Gas & Electric — recently <a href="https://www.brockovichdatacenter.com/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">launched a website with a map</a> of data centers across the United States.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The website describes the map as “a work in progress” that includes data centers reported by members of the surrounding community. In <a href="https://www.thebrockovichreport.com/p/if-data-centers-are-so-great-why" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">a Substack post</a>, Brockovich said that after putting out a call for reports of data center-related issues in April, she received nearly 4,000 submissions in the first month alone.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“The single most common concern — more than noise, more than water usage, more than rising utility bills — is the one word that keeps appearing in submission after submission: <strong>transparency</strong>,” she wrote.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Brockovich added that she’s not “making a blanket argument against data centers” or AI, but rather against “the pattern our map documents: projects announced after permits are already secured, developers who don’t return calls, local officials who signed NDAs before their neighbors knew a project was being considered.”</p>
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