Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has launched a website mapping data centers across the US to increase transparency, after receiving nearly 4,000 community submissions about data center-related issues, including lack of transparency.
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has a new mission.
# Erin Brockovich takes aim at data center secrecy | TechCrunch
Source: [https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/31/erin-brockovich-takes-aim-at-data-center-secrecy/](https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/31/erin-brockovich-takes-aim-at-data-center-secrecy/)
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2:05 PM PDT · May 31, 2026
**Image Credits:**Brandon Dill for The Washington Post / Getty ImagesEnvironmental 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Brockovich_(film))in a film dramatizing her legal case against Pacific Gas & Electric — recently[launched a website with a map](https://www.brockovichdatacenter.com/index.html)of data centers across the United States\.
The website describes the map as “work in progress” that includes data centers reported by members of the surrounding community\. In[a Substack post](https://www.thebrockovichreport.com/p/if-data-centers-are-so-great-why), 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\.
Brockovich added that she’s not making a “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\.”
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