Data Centers & Flock Systems: A Double Threat? #shorts
The short version: A short from Auditing Reno 911 links Flock's ALPR network to domestic-violence tracking risks and ties data-center buildouts to local heat-island harms, calling for bans on both.
Our Take
Credit to Auditing Reno 911 for connecting two threads that don't usually share a headline: Flock Safety's camera network and the data infrastructure that keeps it running. The domestic violence angle isn't hypothetical hand-wringing — ALPR systems have repeatedly been misused by people with access, including officers, to track partners, exes, and victims who thought they'd gotten away. A database of everywhere your car has been is a gift to anyone who wants to find you, badge or no badge.
The data center piece is a newer wrinkle, but it's worth taking seriously. Every Flock camera feed, every plate read, every query log has to live somewhere, and that somewhere increasingly means sprawling server farms that strain local power grids and raise ambient heat in the neighborhoods around them. Communities get sold on 'public safety' without ever being told what the backend infrastructure actually costs them in energy, water, or quality of life.
Whether you're worried about stalkers abusing a database or a warehouse full of servers baking your block, the common thread is the same: this surveillance gets built first and questioned later, if ever. Check our camera map to see what's already watching your streets, and hit up our take-action page if you want to push back before the next contract gets signed.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Auditing Reno 911, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.