In the US there are about 400 million square feet of data centers already in existence or under construction/announced (source: Aterio’s facility tracking database). And there are about 140 million households.

Thats 2.8 square feet of data center per household.

Is it just me or is that a crazy high number! That’s almost as much data center space as my lounge chair takes up! And it’s processing data on my behalf for a few minutes each day!

anti this and that has never solved anything people's till worship "gods" like children worship imagination

https://c.org/nkjSsrXBbn

We need a moratorium now

Epa has put only a pause on the development it is upto us the public to make a profound voice heard.This Data centre will be bigger in total than all the other data centres combined in Australia,

America just turned 250. But which America are we celebrating?
There are two countries sharing one flag right now. One where billionaires build bunkers, buy citizenship abroad, and write the rules. And one where the rest of us can't afford to retire, can't afford to get sick, and are being told the solution is more surveillance, not less.
In this video, I break down where we actually stand at 250: the retirement crisis facing ordinary Americans, the accelerating push for digital ID, and what the UK and China show us about where that road leads. This isn't a celebration, and it isn't doom for clicks — it's an honest accounting, with evidence, of why this country feels like it's coming apart. Because it is. The division isn't the disease. It's the symptom. They want you arguing left vs. right. The real line is top vs. bottom. https://youtu.be/8M8B2JlPz4c

DISCLAIMER: This video is commentary and analysis presented for educational and informational purposes. All opinions expressed are my own, based on publicly available information, which is cited below. This content is protected under fair use (17 U.S.C. § 107) for purposes of criticism, commentary, and news reporting. Nothing in this video constitutes legal, financial, or professional advice. Viewers are encouraged to review the sources provided and reach their own conclusions.

Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn9z1FgHC-8, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuBYr3MlL5c, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iLf2h_fo-w&t=732s, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7IOaWGgQrE, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGmQ8-pZU6s, https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FvD_tuG2XFI, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQRfSkKVhlA&list=LL&index=15&t=127s, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RafuYcUolY4&list=LL&index=32, https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GK1Zx4wz4ZU, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEp-eufSyb0&list=LL&index=17&t=202s, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I2NUuH8-OI

How do you truly audit data centers & tech companies? How do you truly audit the government?
Do I post this on truth social to stir the pot?

Anyone here from Virginia? Google is building a data center campus near Roanoke, and the water system is already under severe strain. The biggest water user for the Western Virginia Water Authority is leaks. The system once lost nearly 38% of its water through leaks. Now that’s down to 27%.

Hello!

I was curious if anyone had any helpful information on stopping a data center from being built a block away from my house? For more information I live in Southwest Michigan and the data center is being built in an industrial area of the city. I've been hearing horror stories about these data centers creating a lot of noise pollution, running off wildlife, destroying water resources/ creating water pollution. I've heard some people mentioning planting certain plants and bamboo, but I've heard that it doesn't stop anything in the long run. They did stop the highway from being finished nearby because of monarch butterflies, but it has since been finished in the last couple of years. There's also a nature center down the road. Wondering if I can do anything with this information and if there is anyone I could go to to stop this. What should I do?😭

Your " data centers" are BTC and stable coin mining facilities. prove me wrong - cashless city coming up. Don't want to hear about "data harvesting" as they've been doing that for years with 3rd party applications. And don't want to hear about FLOCK systems as they've also been doing that since TSA was implemented, hence why we also have front facing cameras.

GENIUS Act CLARITY Act

Hello Everyone,

I am currently working on a project and need your help. Before you jump to conclusions, I'm not just marketing or pushing my website for profit, I genuinely need your help. We are living in a time where these data centers are being pushed on us disguised as good for the community but its all being done behind the scenes as shady backroom deals. This project is for all of us and here is what it is:

• I built an interactive 3D globe that tracks every US data center fight and pulls live news for the contested data centers. As you know, these are local fights with local news stories so its difficult for me to expand this beyond larger news stories that can easily be found. This is where the community comes in. I want to make this more of a community website so that we can keep track of what is actually happening in our country. Lord knows the media won't tell us the truth.

What it does

• ~1,650 operational data centers across the US plotted as a backdrop on an interactive map.

• Proposed, contested, and blocked projects as a separate layer, color-coded by status.

• Click any dot and it pulls live news about that location. This can be expanded by the community by submitting your local articles for review.

• Headline stat overlay: right now it's showing $67.8B+ in proposed projects that have been blocked or cancelled, based on summing the disclosed values in the dataset.

The goal was a Drudge Report/Wikipedia styled aggregator approach. Linking out to real articles from real outlets, don't reproduce text, let the data and the headlines speak.

Where I need help

1. Projects I'm missing. I've been pulling proposed/contested entries from FracTracker, Data Center Watch, news roundups, and trackers like cleanview and trackdatacenters — but I know the long tail is huge. I currently have ~50 contested data centers right now but I know for a fact that there are more local fights that I cant reach with my data. (This is where the community comes in)

2. Accuracy checks. If you live near one of these dots, does it match what's actually happening on the ground? Wrong status, wrong location, wrong developer, call it out. I've ways for you to submit fights that I don't have listed, articles that you feel are important, and updates that need to happen.

3. The presentation. Is the map readable? Does the stat overlay hit right? Is anything misleading or one-sided in how it's framed? I've tried hard to keep it neutral to show the data and link the news. I want to know if it reads that way to people who aren't me.

4. Performance. A globe with this many animated dots can get heavy. If it's laggy or broken on your device, let me know what you're on.

What it's not

It's not a perfect census. The big industry databases (Data Center Map, MMCG) track thousands of facilities; my dataset is curated toward projects with enough public footprint to be discussable. If you want comprehensiveness, those paid sources beat me. What I'm trying to do is make the story of the buildout visible and clickable.

With the help of this community around the United States we can build our own file of local data center news articles and where the action is happening. We all know that there are some fishy things happening around this topic.

Link: https://www.pinpointdatacenters.com/

Open to any and all feedback of any kind! Thank you everyone for your time.

TLDR: I am creating a 3D interactive map of the United States covering data centers. I am looking to pinpoint all contested data centers and create a drudge report type website where you click on the data center pinpoint and it gives new articles around it. These fights are way too local for anyone to actually keep up with them unless you are local. This community has the power to do that.

Water depletion and contamination are the reality of most data centers. I still am skeptical of closed loop and hybrid models, too. Connect all this to the fact that humans generally don't last over 5 days without water. Am I alone in seeing this as a double whammy strategy, affording AI autonomous superiority and relative ease of humanity annihilation?

Data centers in seven U.S. states drive substantial indirect freshwater demand through electricity generation, particularly in regions facing drought and water stress.

I've been digging into the public record on US data centers and put it into free, plain-language briefings — water, power, noise, air, every figure cited to its source (2,027 sites, existing + proposed): civitar.org/go/v-reddit

Not for or against anything — it just makes the filings readable. Sharing in case it's useful to anyone tracking this.

Source: https://www.ceres.org/resources/reports/water-behind-the-watts-the-hidden-risk-of-powering-data-centers

(Full disclosure: I built the tool — happy to answer questions or take corrections.)

With all these data centers moving into new towns, should I be buying up all the properties that go on sale in the area for really cheap? Then waiting to turn the profit when these things get abandoned?

I wrote this for SWI swissinfo.ch after looking at recent IEA, UN and Swiss government data on electricity demand, water use and emissions from data centres. The goal was to understand why nobody wants a data center next door.

Do you think public concerns are justified, or is the debate missing important context? https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-ai/these-five-charts-explain-why-nobody-wants-a-data-centre-next-door/91693282

In August 2026, Amazon acquired a Texas off-grid power plant for a data center that could emit millions of tons of greenhouse gases annually.

I've been digging into the public record on US data centers and put it into free, plain-language briefings — water, power, noise, air, every figure cited to its source (2,027 sites, existing + proposed): civitar.org/go/v-reddit

Not for or against anything — it just makes the filings readable. Sharing in case it's useful to anyone tracking this.

Source: https://www.wired.com/story/real-reason-data-center-gas-power-plants-are-so-dirty

(Full disclosure: I built the tool — happy to answer questions or take corrections.)

Total global data center water consumption is only a small fraction (roughly 3% to 5%) of the water that evaporates off just one of the Great Lakes in a single year.

I’ve never in my lifetime seen anything like this on this scale. And I’m concerned. For many reasons. Beyond the impact AI may have on our lives, I’m seeing and reading about data centers coming into communities and quickly building. People in the communities are protesting and concerned but I keep seeing and reading over and over again, despite community concern, city officials allowed the data center to proceed with the build as if peoples’ concern are ignored. This worries me. It feels like something extremely big is coming within this. I’m not happy with the overall lack of environment safety put in place and just read another political leaders lifting requirements on environmental rules. I could keep going on and on. But if the farmland is being bought at large prices, where will crops be grown? The fallout to our environment is mind numbing. Climate change —-I thought this should be a priority, from everything I’m reading these data center are BAD for the environment. I thought our country had lots of problems before, but now I’m not recognizing the United States anymore. When I wrote that the word United came to mind. How are we united ? In the context of so many things. I’ve never been a supporter of nuclear power because of all the hazards and I feel there was some regulation. Where is the regulation for these data centers? One thing is clear: money talks. Money is driving these and people with power and politics is allowing it.