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?

The page mentioned in the article seems to focus on "AI Data Centers". Looks like it's a much smaller set of hyperscale stuff, not every telco building with a bunch of racks.

However, "user reports" on that map clearly conflate the two, also reporting small, established sites in urban areas, etc.

Erin Brockovich is popular enough that it justifies duplicacy of efforts, amount of visibility her name will brings in much more value than cost of building it.

At least 3 amazon AWS locations are missing in Sweden... This just from checking my own town.

EDIT: NO! Wth is this map? I have to click to expand the clusters. Ah well, all is good.

This map is inaccurate, for at least one major FAANG player. General metro area seems to be good but actual physical location is way wrong, not even the campus is right

To document the impacts and organize people against the harms.

Giving equal weight to real data centers and 1000sqft telco switches on this map is sort of misleading.

I mean, why was OpenStreetMap created?

It puts a number greater than 4,000 in the middle of the US. Maybe that’s reliable, maybe it’s accurate, but it’s certainly not useful.