“Some of you saw a thing I built earlier this year called Epstein Exposed. It was an attempt to make the Epstein files actually searchable instead of 2 million scanned pages nobody could use….I went looking for the next pile of public records nobody had bothered to make searchable. I found it on a drive, about a mile off the highway. A data center. I got curious and tried to answer two simple questions when I got home. Who owns it, and what did the county give them to build it there. It took me most of a weekend and I still was not sure. The site was owned by an LLC, which was owned by another LLC, which traced back to a name that meant nothing. The tax break was real and large and buried in a county commission PDF from two years earlier that no search engine had ever touched. Meanwhile every utility in the region is asking for rate hikes and pointing at “load growth.” That is when I started building again. It is called DataCentersExposed. Same idea as before. Take the records that are public but unusable, and make them searchable for a regular person in about ten seconds.

• You can type in your address or your zip. It shows you the data centers near you and a rough estimate of what they are costing you on your own utility bill, with the math shown so you can argue with it. For each site it tries to name the real corporate parent, not the shell LLC on the permit. That part was the hardest. These projects hide behind codename companies on purpose, and I have decoded over 1,300 of those shells back to the actual company so far. Google, Meta, Amazon, the big REITs, all of them do it.
• It also pulls the tax breaks and subsidies for each site and totals them. I am at over 3.2 billion dollars documented right now, every figure linked back to an official source. On top of that there is the water each one draws, any EPA violations on record, and the grid it actually runs on. If a data center near you is being fought by locals, there is a page with the upcoming public hearings and how to show up to them, because that is usually the only point where any of this is still up for debate.
• It covers more than 3,000 sites across 31 countries. I will be honest about the limits. The US is by far the deepest because that is where the records are best. International coverage is thinner and growing. Some of the bill-impact and capacity numbers are estimates and they are labeled as estimates, not facts. If you find something wrong, a bad owner link, a number that looks off, a site that is missing, tell me. That kind of boring correction is what made the last project trustworthy and it is the same deal here.
• One thing I will repeat the same way I did last time. A company showing up in this data is not an accusation of anything. Building a data center is legal. Getting a tax break is legal. The point is just to make it visible who is getting what, with public money, in your community, so you can decide what you think about it.
• It is free. No ads and no paywall. It is part of a small group of sites I run now. If you want to see what is near you, it is at datacentersexposed.com. Go put in your zip and then tell me what I got wrong. Just keep in the mind this is just the beginning…”