It isn’t about where they’re building data centers anymore. It’s why they’re building where they’re building.

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Here’s Erin Brockovich’s map of every data center in America.

The renowned environmental activist is known for her fight against groundwater contamination in Hinkley, California, and now she has launched an interactive crowdsourced map (brockovichdatacenter.com) in 2026 to track AI data centers across the U.S.

The map highlights operational, under-construction, and proposed facilities—often near or over aquifers and in drought-prone areas—along with thousands of community reports on issues like massive water use for cooling (up to millions of gallons daily per large center), energy demands, noise, and lack of transparency.Building on her legacy of protecting local water resources, Brockovich aims to empower residents to monitor and challenge projects that could strain aquifers and community supplies.

The Dily Torch and Vigilant Fox have done something really interesting with this map.

https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/exclusive-the-data-center-and-smart

They laid the nation’s aquifers on top of it. They noticed they’re not building data centers where the land is cheap. They’re building them where the water is. Farmers near these facilities say their livestock have stopped falling pregnant. Residents say the humming never stops. And the projects arrive under NDAs, so most towns don’t know until the ground is already broken.

The question isn’t where they’re building anymore. It’s why they’re building where they’re building. This video tries to answer that question. Data centres and their use of resources: power, land, and water, are a serious problem in America and worldwide, and it’s one that is uniting people from all sides of the political aisle because, guess what, whether you are a conservative or a liberal, you have human rights that enable you to have access to basic survival needs like water, which was given to us by God, not by the state or Big Tech.

But the public isn’t stupid. Daily Torch thought they’d do something a little bit different. They created a series of maps using Erin Brockovich’s data center data, then superimposed aquifer maps onto those maps, then superimposed smart city locations onto those maps.

What Maria at Daily Torch found was pretty mind-blowing and, she says, lends credence to her theory that those in charge are purposely making rural areas unlivable for the purpose of pushing people into smart cities, where they will be under constant surveillance and on a short leash.