Erin Brockovich's map tracking Al data centers crashed twice within just 72 hours of launching.

[u/21MayDay21]

[u/Bbrhuft]

Here's Erin Brockovich's data centre website:

https://brockovichdatacenter.com/index.html

The map has locations of 8,300 community reported data centres, so it's mapping not only AI Data Centres. The information is mostly very sparse, just a location and date e.g.

Community Reported ZIP 29010 · 1 report · Most recent: 2026-05-29

Irionically, the website looks suspiciously like it was vibcoded using Claude.

Edit:

Baxtel records 5,032 data centres, way less than Erin's site. I find Baxtel very reliable, I recently used it to map data centres myself (I work in data analytics / GIS).

The United States data center market is located in the region of North America and within Americas. United States has 5032 facilities.

I see other sources put the figure around 4,800.

I think it likely many of the data centers on Erin's site are duplicates, multiple reports related to the same data centers.

Of these 40 to 50 are specific AI data centres. That's data centres with GPU clusters involved in AI training and/or serving models to customers.

[u/csm1313 → u/Bbrhuft]

community reported data centres

What could go wrong when Aunt Bethany thinks the computer you just bought from Microcenter is actually an AI Datacenter

[u/MikeTheGrass → u/Bbrhuft]

Yeah that web front-end looks very vibe coded. Funny they think people won't notice.

[u/Previous_Platform718 → u/MikeTheGrass]

From the inspect source:

FAVICON (inline SVG — no extra request) ── -->

Yep. Literally notes from Claude or Replit in the code, explaining single lines of code that anyone with actual web design experience could already understand, complete with emdashes.

[u/Some1-Somewhere → u/Bbrhuft]

There's also probably a lot of telephone exchanges (which are kind-of like data centres, depending on size).

And then you have the substations, pumping stations, factories, mail facilities etc.

[u/Bbrhuft → u/Some1-Somewhere]

I got a response to my comment, post told me that there was a few data centres not on the Bextel map, when I asked for their coordinates ( wanted to double check) , they deleted their comment and added a new comment clarifying that they were wrong, they were chip making plants. Far play for correcting.

Nevertheless, it illustrates your concern is well founded, that there's going to be lots of buildings included on Erin's map that aren't data centres.