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

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/erin-brockovich-made-a-map-to-track-data-centers-around-the-cou...
75•cratermoon•1h ago•57 comments

Chemistry behind the Garden Grove chemical tank

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/methyl-methacrylate-tank
227•nooks•6h ago•87 comments

AI Tools Are Only as Good as Your Judgment – and That's the Point

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26•talvardi7•2h ago•12 comments

Cloudflare Flagship

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64•tjek•2h ago•28 comments

Stripe is friendly to "friendly fraud"

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76•gingerlime•1h ago•22 comments

A few interesting modern pixel fonts

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255•zdw•1d ago•54 comments

I Bypassed Adobe and Microsoft to Build a Git-Tracked Book Production Pipeline

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170•dustin1114•4d ago•41 comments

A portentous reunion

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49•cafkafk•20h ago•20 comments

Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia

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304•cdrnsf•5h ago•153 comments

C array types are weird

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57•signa11•1d ago•29 comments

Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence

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782•thm•13h ago•359 comments

Rosalind: A genomics toolkit in Rust running whole-genome pipelines on a laptop

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128•samuell•5d ago•32 comments

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38•boarsofcanada•2h ago•7 comments

The Steinwinter Supercargo

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46•itronitron•3d ago•11 comments

Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 price drops 99% – AI pricing war

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Launch HN: Minicor (YC P26) – Windows desktop automations at scale

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73•fchishtie•11h ago•47 comments

Liverpool and Manchester Railway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_and_Manchester_Railway
13•daverol•2d ago•2 comments

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/26/dropbox-ceo-drew-houston-ashraf-alkarmi.html
298•aghuang•12h ago•328 comments

The real cost of owning a home

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292•ggcr•10h ago•640 comments

Use boring languages with LLMs

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177•evakhoury•4d ago•142 comments

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78•ibobev•12h ago•11 comments

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16•xlii•4h ago•4 comments

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https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sagecare/jobs/xtloH8r-senior-software-engineer
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The Ballad of TIGIT

https://www.owlposting.com/p/the-ballad-of-tigit
93•crescit_eundo•10h ago•19 comments

Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs

https://www.signalbloom.ai/posts/outsourcing-plus-localai-will-soon-become-more-economical-vs-fro...
250•GodelNumbering•14h ago•273 comments

What color is your function? (2015)

https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-your-function/
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What I've Learned (So Far) Building Online Mini Games with Elixir and Swift

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Opaque Types in Python

https://blog.glyph.im/2026/05/opaque-types-in-python.html
112•lumpa•3d ago•53 comments

Scientists say they've reversed brain aging with a simple nasal spray

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260526022018.htm
5•bookmtn•20m ago•0 comments
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Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/erin-brockovich-made-a-map-to-track-data-centers-around-the-country/
74•cratermoon•1h ago

Comments

jayknight•1h ago
Direct Link: https://www.brockovichdatacenter.com/
canyp•22m ago
How isn't this the actual link in the post? Have to go through all these loops and hoops and the post doesn't even link to the source from what I can tell.
engineer_22•59m ago
the money being talked about is so large that eventually the lobbyists will get their checks and the politicians will pass laws forbidding local scrutiny of data centers
bombcar•55m ago
Much of the money is funny and doesn’t actually exist (yet).
weaksauce•55m ago
what's funny is the website looks AI generated though that's just the style of the time i guess.
bastawhiz•50m ago
I came here to say this. I'm highly confident the site was built with Claude. I asked Claude how it was built and Claude was confident it was built with Claude. Kind of ironic, honestly.
atonse•50m ago
No I actually do think this is AI generated. I came here to say the same.

Brokovich might not know it. But her web people certainly used AI to build this site. From the Emojis, cards, to the single colored left border.

weaksauce•44m ago
the more I look at it the more I think this is AI yeah. sigh. I'm tired boss.
Papazsazsa•36m ago
I'm very pro-AI. I also think Americans have the right to decide what happens in their neighborhoods. There is no hypocrisy there.
Aurornis•4m ago
> I also think Americans have the right to decide what happens in their neighborhoods.

I agree with this.

At the same time, all of the data center proposals in my state are in remote locations nowhere near any residences. They’re still the target of protests.

tqi•55m ago
"...investigating data centers is quickly becoming its own beat"

ie it is in the economic interest of the writers to tap into (and foment) the FUD around "data centers."

ai_critic•54m ago
c'mon now it's not nice to say mean things about ed zitron like that
ares623•51m ago
They should just make the entirety of Silicon Valley as a mega data center.
regularization•45m ago
That data centers are burning fossil fuels and burning up the earth is not FUD.
ViktorRay•54m ago
I saw a comment from another site that a lot of the data center locations on this map aren’t accurate. Is there any truth to that?
NDlurker•47m ago
I looked around North Dakota and there are several that say community reported. Pretty sure those either don't exist or aren't significant in size if they do exist.
bob1029•43m ago
I was thinking some of the community ones are bogus and then I started looking closer at a few of the hotspots. There is what appears to be a compelling site for a datacenter right in the middle of a cluster of these reports:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/nZyt5Yb3kqxj5thc8

efnx•46m ago
It’s interesting how many more community reported data centres there are compared to operational and proposed. I’m wondering if this is because of over reporting? Like - does the public mistake any new, big building as a data centre, or are the other categories under reported (or something else)?
altairprime•44m ago
Are privately-held datacenters counted? Like, prssumably chipmakers have a few of their own in their home regions..?
jagged-chisel•30m ago
“Privately-held”? I don’t think governments are building them.
DANmode•5m ago
Companies that aren’t publicly traded, is another way to say that.
cheschire•2m ago
The US government has a lot.

Just one random Google result:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

stock_toaster•17m ago
Seems under-reported to me (as far as PDX goes).

For reference: https://www.datacenterjournal.com/data-centers/oregon/portla...

ada1981•40m ago
"Erin Brockovich uses AI to make a map to track data centers around the country."
doctorpangloss•34m ago
They're idiots, self-reporting.
wuyunhuo•39m ago
AI is good, but the impact of data centers on the environment cannot be ignored. Over a longer time scale, AI is just one wave, while the environment will take much longer to recover.
doctorpangloss•25m ago
It seems pretty insincere of a complaint, when in those communities, 100x more land and water is used for farming, just because farming is a heritage, no?
NikolaNovak•16m ago
* if that's a sarcastic / troll comment, congratulations, you got me but good :-)

* if it's serious, what in the world do you eat, to compare farming, with AI datacentres, on equal / comparable footing in terms of necessity and efficiencies -- or call farming a "heritage business"? :->

Morromist•12m ago
AI is useful for programmers and a few other groups of people to do their jobs faster.

For most people it is just a thing that produces crappy facebook memes, has made certain parts of life more dystopian - like job interviews, and people keep saying is going to take away your job and the jobs of your children. And energy prices keep going up.

If you can't see why AI is unpopular you're just very out of touch.

dyauspitr•3m ago
Exactly. How about instead of demanding that we become some regressive, Luddite pieces of shit we actually ask for more clean power generation.
tiffanyh•38m ago
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?

jeffbee•26m ago
Giving equal weight to real data centers and 1000sqft telco switches on this map is sort of misleading.
jagged-chisel•25m ago
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.
seeknotfind•24m ago
You can click on that to see more detail :)
jagged-chisel•21m ago
I guess it’s just not designed for mobile. Tapping didn’t reveal anything.
guiambros•4m ago
It works well on Android. Just zoom in and click the number, and you can breakdown per state. Click on any state number and it breaks down per city.

Pretty functional design.

gnatman•23m ago
you click on that number to drill down into more and more granular information
lacewing•24m ago
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.

cowsandmilk•8m ago
I mean, why was OpenStreetMap created?
ETH_start•34m ago
AI compute is a major emerging export industry that the U.S. could become the global leader in. Strong First Amendment protections, due process, and limits on arbitrary government control also make the U.S. uniquely well-suited for AI, unlike, let's say, manufacturing, where authoritarian states seem to have an advantage.
btbuildem•24m ago
> First Amendment protections, due process, and limits on arbitrary government control

In what fairytale land does this describe the US today?

brightball•2m ago
Describes the US since founding. It’s the Constitution.
866-RON-0-FEZ•21m ago
I love these new modern-day AI-hating Luddites.

Maybe they'll seize the means of computing and repurpose it for putting pictures of pillow shams on Pinterest.

I wonder if they think data centers didn't exist before 2025 and the Internet was run as some sort of underground railroad out of broom closets and people's basements.

ronnier•19m ago
There’s lots of anti ai and anti tech coming from hn and in general lately. I guess this is start of the hit list.
falsaberN1•13m ago
People have gotten so intense with the anti-AI sentiment that I hope this doesn't end up guiding people to places where they can exercise violence "for a just cause".
AuthAuth•13m ago
This datacenter stuff is such populist brainrot.
october8140•10m ago
I take it you don't live next to a data center.
pesus•9m ago
It does seem most of the pro-AI people aren't actually affected by any of the negative aspects of it. It's a lot easier to be in favor of something that doesn't actually affect you or anyone you care about.
ralph84•6m ago
Big Tech isn't exactly doing a great job of marketing them. Saying they're for AI while doing mass layoffs attributed to AI isn't a winning message.
luxuryballs•12m ago
I don’t get the issue with the data centers, maybe instead of looking at just the data centers they should look at all the rest of the land in the US along with it and see how truly small these things are.
fc417fc802•6m ago
Nobody is complaining about the acreage used. The objection is power and water consumption and any other externalities imposed on the local community. If they were just purchasing 100 acre lots of land and letting it sit vacant I don't think anyone would really care for the most part.
thiagoperes•9m ago
It's poetically beautiful that the tool was very very clearly built mostly if not entirely using AI
dyauspitr•5m ago
Opposition data center is stupid. We need as many data centers as possible. If you actually want to make a difference how about you mandate that they all come with their own solar and battery power packs. When the hell did the left become so regressive?
Papazsazsa•4m ago
I love this. Yeah there's some FUD out there about water usage and whatnot, but using the internet to spread actual awareness about local concerns is a fine demonstration of free speech at work.

If slop is more expensive to produce, maybe there will be less of it clogging up the digital commons.