Jade was in the middle of building NIMS—a Georgia-first public map and civic organizing system—when he found a stronger national effort aimed at the same problem. So we stopped competing with the mission and sent the community there.
We are not anti-AI. We are not anti-data center. We are anti-stupidity—bad siting, hidden costs and communities learning last.
A data-center fight in Georgia cost Jade an investor in his boat project. He got angry, then did what he has done for more than two decades: he started building a system around the problem.
NIMS—Not In My Swamp—was designed as more than a slogan. It combined public records, reported concerns, civic chapters, source labels, maps and recognizable artwork that could bring very different people into the same conversation.
The point was not to stop technology. The point was to make infrastructure visible before the decisions became irreversible.
The NIMS prototype focused tightly on Georgia: data-center status, power footprint, wildfire exposure, emergency areas and source-tagged reports. The Brockovich project takes the public-awareness and resident-reporting idea nationwide. Seeing that overlap made the decision simple.
NIMS had a voice, characters, county organizing concepts and game-ready visual assets. Oddar the Otter could point, protest, clean, teach and still make room for somebody who did not look or vote like him.
Different paths. Same purpose. That line eventually applied to NIMS itself.
When Jade saw Erin Brockovich’s data-center awareness effort moving toward the same goal with a larger national platform, EAS stopped duplicating the lane. NIMS members and visitors were directed to that active resource. Jade joined the public effort as a supporter and offered EAS services.
This page does not claim a formal partnership or endorsement. It documents the choice: the mission mattered more than keeping our name on the door.