Why go through the effort when such work has already been done?
https://www.datacentermap.com/datacenters/
Not being negative. But isn’t there existing highly reliable data that already exists for this?
https://www.datacentermap.com/datacenters/
Not being negative. But isn’t there existing highly reliable data that already exists for this?
However, "user reports" on that map clearly conflate the two, also reporting small, established sites in urban areas, etc.
Both are attempting to dismiss something useful and important, over trivial and manageable issues, mostly for culture war reasons rather than rational reasons.
Data centers are loud, raise energy prices for everyone around them, and use drinking water in tremendous quantities.
This isn’t a culture war, this is a class war.
Edit: you might be a bot. No comments in the last 47 days, then a string of hard-pro data center comments in the last week.
It also accepts user reporting of new developments, breaks them down in several categories (tracking proposed, operational, under construction, etc).
And eventually it can also track more information about them, specific to their cases (amount of water and energy used, pollution reports, etc). E.g. it has information like "1.2 GW AI factory broke ground May 12, 2026 at Eastgate Commerce Center (Little Blue Pkwy & MO-78). 400 acres, up to 10 buildings. ~1,200 construction jobs / ~130 full-time. Multi-billion-dollar investment; $150bn taxable industrial development revenue bonds secured." for some.
Brockovich is an environmental activist. Her project uses the public as a source of data for the map ("community reports")
DCR does not
Pretty functional design.
EDIT: NO! Wth is this map? I have to click to expand the clusters. Ah well, all is good.