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 impact calculator 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, and where a figure is an estimate we say so.
• Every claim carries its date and its document. The moratorium tracker records where communities have paused or banned data centers, and each row carries the ordinance or council record behind it plus the date we last read it. A row we could not source is labelled unverified rather than quietly presented as fact, and a moratorium that has lapsed says so — because a resident who cites an expired pause at a hearing loses the room.
• The paper trail, not the press release. The project tracker points at where a campus's public record actually lives — state environmental permits, county filings, the interconnection queue, the PUC docket — and distinguishes a public register from a search query, because those are different claims.
• Community voice, front and center. The story tracker archives local reporting by locality so the concerns of residents — noise, water draw, rate hikes, zoning fights — are as visible as a company's sustainability report. Headlines are grouped automatically and labelled as such.
• Direct civic action. Officials and the scorecard put every senator, representative, and governor one click away, with documented data-center positions where they exist and no record found where they do not. Start here walks you through the three weeks before a zoning vote.

Everything here is a static page built from committed data. There are no accounts, no trackers beyond a privacy-preserving page counter, and nothing to install — the site loads on a phone in a council parking lot, which is where a lot of it gets read.

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