Erin Brockovich takes aim at data center secrecy

艾琳·布罗科维奇（Erin Brockovich）瞄准数据中心的保密问题

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. 环保活动家艾琳·布罗科维奇有了新的使命：为数据中心建设及其对周边社区的影响带来更高的透明度。

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. 布罗科维奇曾因在一部讲述她起诉太平洋天然气和电力公司（PG&E）法律案件的电影中被朱莉娅·罗伯茨饰演而闻名。最近，她上线了一个网站，其中包含了一张美国各地数据中心的地图。

The website describes the map as “work in progress” that includes data centers reported by members of the surrounding community. 该网站将这张地图描述为“正在进行中的工作”，其中收录了由周边社区成员报告的数据中心信息。

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. 在一篇 Substack 文章中，布罗科维奇表示，自四月份发出征集数据中心相关问题报告的呼吁后，仅第一个月她就收到了近 4,000 份反馈。

“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. “最普遍的担忧——超过了噪音、用水量和不断上涨的公用事业账单——是一个在提交的报告中反复出现的词：透明度，”她写道。

Brockovich added that she’s not 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.” 布罗科维奇补充说，她并不是要“一概反对数据中心”或人工智能，而是反对“我们地图所记录的这种模式：在获得许可后才宣布项目、开发商不回电话、以及当地官员在邻居们知情前就签署了保密协议（NDA）。”