Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has launched a website featuring a map of data centers across the United States, aiming to increase transparency around their construction and impact on local communities. The map, described as 'work in progress,' includes data centers reported by members of the surrounding community. In a Substack post, Brockovich said she received nearly 4,000 submissions in the first month after putting out a call for reports of data center-related issues. '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: transparency,' she wrote. Brockovich emphasized that she is not making a blanket argument against data centers or AI, but rather against the pattern her map documents: projects announced after permits are already secured, developers who don’t return calls, and local officials who signed NDAs before their neighbors knew a project was being considered. *Source: [techcrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/31/erin-brockovich-takes-aim-at-data-center-secrecy/)*