Erin Brockovich highlights a lack of transparency and growing community backlash surrounding the secretive and rapid construction of massive AI data centers across the U.S.

The rapid expansion of AI infrastructure is colliding head-on with local environmental and democratic limits, exposing how tech giants rely on NDAs and local government secrecy to bypass community consent.

• –**Democratic Deficit**: The use of NDAs by local officials to hide massive projects until construction begins undermines basic democratic accountability and community trust.
• –**Resource Collision**: Data centers are placing unsustainable demands on local grids and water systems, especially in drought-prone areas like Texas, where infrastructure cannot support this level of consumption.
• –**Lobbying vs. Reality**: The tech lobby (NetChoice) focuses on short-term economic gains (jobs and tax revenue) while actively obscuring long-term community costs like grid strain, noise pollution, and water depletion.
• –**Effective Resistance**: Local organizing is proving to be a powerful counterweight, as demonstrated by municipal data center bans in New Jersey, proving that tech expansion is not inevitable when communities mobilize.