# Erin Brockovich

Founder, Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting. TIME100 AI 2026, Shapers. An environmental advocate for more than 30 years, Erin Brockovich now runs a map where communities report issues with AI data centers. ([brockovichdatacenter.com](https://www.brockovichdatacenter.com/))

- Born: 1960-06-22, Lawrence, Kansas, U.S. ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Brockovich))
- Education: AAA, Wade College ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Brockovich))
- Career: Brockovich Research and Consulting (President); Weitz & Luxenberg (Consultant, 2008–2016); Masry & Vititoe (Legal clerk and environmental researcher, 1991–2009) ([linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/in/erin-brockovich-a359773b), [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Brockovich))
- TIME profile: https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/erin-brockovich/
- Profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/most-influential-people-in-ai/erin-brockovich

- As a legal clerk with no law degree, she built the Hinkley case against PG&E over chromium-6 in drinking water, settled in 1996 for $333 million. ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Brockovich))
- That PG&E settlement was the largest ever paid in a US direct-action lawsuit at the time. ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Brockovich))
- Her name became an Oscar-winning movie and then a verb, meaning to investigate and keep fighting for a cause. ([thebrockovichreport.com](https://www.thebrockovichreport.com/about))
- Her crowd-sourced AI data center map has logged over 9,700 community-reported locations across the US. ([brockovichdatacenter.com](https://www.brockovichdatacenter.com/))
- The data center map reuses the crowd-reporting model of her earlier Community Healthbook for water contamination. ([brockovich.com](https://www.brockovich.com/community-healthbook/))
- Says the number one concern residents report about data centers is lack of transparency. ([chron.com](https://www.chron.com/news/article/data-centers-erin-brockovitch-texas-22276986.php))