The grid belongs to everyone who powers it.

You don’t have to support AI to support public infrastructure. If this technology gets built regardless of how any of us feel about it, and the evidence suggests it will, the only question is whether the grid it runs on belongs to the public or to private capital. Opposing data centers without securing public terms just means they get built somewhere else, under worse conditions, with no community benefit. This framework is for people who want something real to show for the fight, not just a canceled permit that moves one town over.

No. Nothing here is taken by force. Communities are simply negotiating the terms of approvals and incentives they already grant voluntarily. A company that wants public land, permits, and tax breaks can be asked to share ownership of the infrastructure those public goods make possible. That is a normal exchange, not a seizure.

Demand for compute is intense and the suitable sites are limited. Companies need these deals to happen. Public ownership of generation can be structured so projects still pencil out for everyone. It changes who owns the upside, not whether the facility gets built. Many developers already partner on renewable generation; this formalizes a public stake.

That's a local choice. The framework covers three proven structures. They are municipal utilities, member-owned rural cooperatives, and public power authorities, each with different governance, financing, and accountability tradeoffs. The common thread is that the public holds the asset and the revenue it produces.

Not at all. We're optimistic about what this technology can do. Our position is that its foundational infrastructure, the energy grid it runs on, should be built for a shared future that benefits both people and the systems they rely on. Public ownership is how you make that future durable.

Actually, municipal energy ownership is standard across Northern Europe. Cities have run their own power utilities for generations. This isn’t a new idea; it’s catching up to democratic norms that have worked for decades. The United States has done this before, too: the Rural Electrification Administration, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and the Interstate Highway System were all public infrastructure built at scale when private capital wouldn't. This is the same model, applied to the energy and compute infrastructure of the AI era. And it already works in practice. Meta's data center in Odense, Denmark heats more than 11,000 homes through the city's district heating network, and Equinix's facility in Markham, Ontario feeds recovered heat to a municipal energy system serving a university campus, community pools, and thousands of homes. The technology exists; the only question is who captures the benefit.

The leverage model is strongest where demand exists, but the underlying principles apply broadly. Public ownership of clean generation and winning real public benefit from incentives matter in any region. The framework includes guidance for areas positioning themselves to attract investment on public-benefit terms.