Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country

艾琳·布罗科维奇制作了一张地图，用于追踪全国各地的数据中心

LINK: www.brockovichdatacenter.com | Posted by: Neel Dhanesha | May 26, 2026

Erin Brockovich, the environmental activist whose name and work you may recognize from the Oscar-winning movie Erin Brockovich, has created a tool to map data centers across the country, along with a form for people to report data centers and their impacts in their community.

艾琳·布罗科维奇（Erin Brockovich）是一位环保活动家，你可能从奥斯卡获奖电影《永不妥协》（Erin Brockovich）中熟悉她的名字和事迹。她近日创建了一个工具，用于绘制全国各地的数据中心地图，并提供了一个表格，供民众举报数据中心及其对社区产生的影响。

“The RACE to build AI infrastructures is unfolding town by town across America. In some places, data centers are welcomed,” Brockovich writes on the site (emphasis hers). “In others, they are delayed, contested or abandoned altogether. This MAP captures the real-world footprint of that race — revealing patterns of growth, conflict and uncertainty.”

“建设人工智能基础设施的‘竞赛’正在美国各个城镇展开。在一些地方，数据中心受到欢迎，”布罗科维奇在网站上写道（强调部分为原文所有）。“而在另一些地方，它们则被推迟、遭到抵制，甚至被彻底废弃。这张地图捕捉到了这场竞赛在现实世界中的足迹，揭示了增长、冲突和不确定性的模式。”

As data center demand continues to grow rapidly, so are concerns about their impacts; in March, Andrew and I wrote about how investigating data centers is quickly becoming its own beat.

随着对数据中心的需求持续快速增长，人们对其影响的担忧也随之增加；今年三月，我和安德鲁（Andrew）曾撰文探讨调查数据中心如何迅速成为一个专门的新闻报道领域。

As of publication, Brockovich’s map — similar to a map published by Business Insider, whom Andrew and I talked to for our story — shows the locations of 33 operational data centers, with 44 under construction and 27 proposed. There are also 2,716 community reports so far, and undoubtedly more will follow.

截至本文发布时，布罗科维奇的地图显示了33个正在运营的数据中心的位置，另有44个在建项目和27个拟建项目。该地图与《商业内幕》（Business Insider）此前发布的一张地图类似（我们在撰写报道时曾与他们交流过）。目前，该平台已收到2,716份社区报告，且毫无疑问，未来还会有更多报告涌入。