"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.

Brockovich — who was famously played by Julia Roberts in a film dramatizing her legal case against Pacific Gas & Electric — recently launched a website with a map of data centers across the United States.

The website describes the map as “a work in progress” that includes data centers reported by members of the surrounding community. In a Substack post, 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.

“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."

Anthony Ha reports for TechCrunch May 31, 2026. [2]

SEE ALSO:

"Erin Brockovich Launches A Crowdsourced AI Data Center Map" (engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/2181883/erin-brockovich-launches-a-crowdsourced... [3]

"AI Data Centers & Our Communities" (Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting)
https://brockovichdatacenter.com/ [4]