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