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 '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. 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...
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