Our Mission

GridWatch AI exists because the people who live near data centers deserve the same quality of information that the people who build them already have.

Every week a new hyperscaler or colocation developer files interconnection paperwork for another 500 MW campus. Every week a local planning board holds a public hearing where residents ask the same unanswered questions: How much water will it use? Will my electric bill go up? What happens to property values?

We built this tracker to close that information gap:

• Open coefficients, cited sources. Every number on the Calculator and Methodology tabs links to the primary disclosure or peer-reviewed study it came from — IEA, Google, Epoch AI, ML.ENERGY, EPRI, EIA, PJM. Nothing is inferred or editorialized.
• Live grid data, not marketing. The Grid Timing and Data Centers tabs pull real-time generation mix and marginal emissions from the EIA-930 and PJM APIs so you can see the actual carbon intensity of the grid that powers a facility — not the clean-energy credits a company purchased months later.
• Community voice, front and center. The Community & Backlash tab aggregates local news and Reddit sentiment so the concerns of residents — noise, water draw, rate hikes, zoning fights — are as visible as a company's sustainability report.
• Direct civic action. The Officials tab puts every senator, representative, and governor one click away, with documented data-center stances where they exist. Select your state and the app surfaces the local controversies you can reference in your message.

This project is independent, unfunded, and open-source. It is not affiliated with any cloud provider, data-center developer, or advocacy group. Our only agenda is that public decisions should be informed by public data.

— The GridWatch AI team