Untitled Data Centers

Untitled Data Centers investigates the hidden industrialization of the American landscape through the lens of digital infrastructure. Using Google Earth imagery, documenting hundreds of AI data center compounds spanning over the entire United States, operated by Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and the U.S. government. These sites represent only 4% of active AI data centers in 2025, yet even this small sample reveals the scale of a largely invisible empire shaping our environment, economy, and society. By appropriating satellite imagery the very infrastructure enabling these systems the project turns surveillance back on itself, exposing the brutalism of our digital world. These facilities consume roughly one million gallons of water per day and as much electricity as 75,0000 homes, transforming natural landscapes into one vast, engineered motherboard. They operate largely beyond public oversight, traceable only through mandatory disclosures like backup generator purchases, leaving most construction hidden from public databases. These corporations are not just reshaping the physical landscape, they're rewriting the narrative of progress and reality itself to benefit their own interests and those of the government. Through AI, they’re redefining how we see, work, and understand the world, all while tightening control over the flow of information and capital. As AI continues to expand, so does its hunger for energy, land, and water, creating an exponentially growing demand for industrialized data. Each new facility deepens an ecological debt paid in water, land, and power. By presenting these hidden infrastructures visually,Untitled Data Centers invites the viewer to witness the environmental, political, and social stakes of this digital industrial revolution. The project positions the audience within a network of observation, turning surveillance into critique, and asking what it means to live under systems that consolidate power under the false colors of progress.