DataFed equips citizens and policymakers with clear, verifiable insight into AI data centers—their locations, growth, and effects on water, energy, land use, and civic life. It also provides a secure registry to publicly assert your right to opt out of AI training.
DataFed promotes transparency around current and planned AI data centers, including their ecological and civic impacts—particularly on water, energy, and land use.
It also administers a secure Opt‑Out Registration where individuals can publicly record their decision to withhold personal data from AI training, establishing a recognized basis for protection and recourse.
By combining infrastructure mapping, environmental monitoring, and citizen data‑rights advocacy, DataFed advances responsible AI governance and safeguards informed consent.
DataFed exists to confront the rapid—and often unseen—expansion of AI data centers and their profound impact on communities, resources, and individual rights. Our mission is to ensure citizens are fully informed about the location, development, and consequences of AI infrastructure, while providing tools to protect personal data from unauthorized use.
AI development must not occur in the shadows. Communities deserve to know how AI affects their environment, resources, and data—and to act when rights are at risk. By combining transparency, legal empowerment, and public advocacy, DataFed keeps the public interest at the forefront.
We are a decentralized federation of U.S. citizens and computer scientists working to ensure that AI data centers do not continue to impact our local communities in negative ways. Rising electricity costs, wasteful water use, excessive noise and light pollution, improper tax breaks, and the looming threat of job losses due to AI drive our work.
A comprehensive, up‑to‑date map of operational, in‑progress, and announced sites across the United States, with local regulations, environmental notes, and civic considerations.
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Custom analyses and case studies on development patterns and effects on communities, forests, waterways, and regional resources.
Continuously updated coverage on AI development, construction, environmental impacts, and policy changes.
View Article FeedSecurely register a public record to withhold your personal data from AI training, establishing a basis for protection and recourse.
Help us track local impacts by logging sites, concerns, or suspected data‑use violations for follow‑up.
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