Data Center Map

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

Erin Brockovich: Environmentalist against the data center boom

Erin Brockovich: Environmentalist v. the data center boom June 4, 2026A prominent American activist has joined the global resistance to the huge proliferation of data centers – Erin Brockovich. The 65-year-old environmentalist was made famous by the Hollywood film that bears her name, in which she was played by Julia Roberts. Now she has set up an online platform: the Brockovich Data Center, which collects information on the planning and construction of new data centers in the United States...

Google pledges to replenish more water than it uses at data centers by 2030

Google pledges to replenish more water than it uses at data centers by 2030 The company has expanded its water stewardship projects. Google is expanding its water stewardship commitments, including investments in replenishment projects, to provide more water than it consumes at its data centers by 2030.

AI Is Slowing Down

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A disappearing Service Processor (2025)

One of the considerations in designing our Oxide rack is asking which parts we expect to be accessible and by what means. The Oxide rack is designed to live in a data center with exclusive access via the network. The only reason an engineer should ever need to physically visit a rack is to replace a failing part, such as a disk.

Rain: RDMA-assisted In-Network Scheduling for Microsecond-scale Workloads

Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern data center applications increasingly require microsecond-scale service time with strict tail latency requirements, which can hardly be realized with existing in-network task schedulers due to their inherent limitations. Specifically, software-based schedulers struggle to balance throughput and latency, while switch-based designs either lack global coordination, rely on packet recirculation heavily, or only offer limited support for large tasks. In light...

Amplified Arctic iceberg traffic reshapes benthic biodiversity

Abstract The Arctic is undergoing rapid warming, resulting in retreating sea ice and glaciers1, yet how cryospheric changes propagate into the deep ocean remains poorly understood2. Here we identify a climate-driven mechanism linking accelerating glacier disintegration to an increase in deep-sea hard-bottom habitats far beyond calving fronts. Seafloor observations in Fram Strait show a localized increase in the density and patchiness of dropstones delivered by debris-laden icebergs.

How much heat does an AI data centre produce, and where are they located?

How much heat does an AI data centre produce, and where are they located? Data centres don’t just use large amounts of water and electricity, they’re heating the environment too, study finds. Tech giants are racing to build the infrastructure that powers artificial intelligence.

A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle

Note: this guide is a work in progress and may change at any time! We’ve done our best to cite our sources, but this page has not been professionally fact-checked. This workshop was first run as part of two pilot workshops with the Tech Equity Coalition, in partnership with the ACLU of Washington, in October 2019.

AI Job Grief: The Unnamed Psychological Crisis Hitting Tech Workers

AI Job Grief: The Unnamed Psychological Crisis Hitting Tech Workers In the summer of 2025, an Epic Games layoff cut a worker who was a terminally ill father. According to the most-discussed account of the episode, his family lost his life insurance along with the job.