Data center proposals are reshaping farmland, straining power grids, and dividing communities — often before residents even know a project exists.
A new website, Track Data Centers, is trying to change that. The platform aggregates public records, local news, and company announcements into a single searchable, visual database, mapping proposed and active projects across multiple states with approximate footprints and real-time status tags. It’s the kind of transparency that’s genuinely hard to find when this much is moving this fast.
Built by an independent developer from northeastern Pennsylvania — who watched his own community absorb a wave of industrial development with little public visibility — the tool is free, crowdsourced, and quietly becoming an essential reference for anyone tracking where the AI infrastructure boom is physically landing.