Show the likely impact
Publish credible estimates for grid demand, water use, household costs, jobs, data, and ecology.
Subject 01 / Public-review draft
AI infrastructure should prove what it consumes, changes, and returns.
Data centers, cloud systems, and energy-intensive AI can affect water, electricity, household bills, jobs, data rights, and local ecosystems. This draft asks what evidence and protections should be required before public-benefit claims are made.
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In plain language
The proposal in one minute
AI infrastructure should not ask the public to trust broad promises. Before an actor can claim alignment, affected people should be able to inspect the likely costs, the promised safeguards, the decision rights, and the evidence that will remain public.
Give affected people a role
People who carry the risk should have meaningful authority, not only a listening session.
Set pause and repair rules
Define what would require mitigation, redesign, delay, or rejection before construction or scaling.
Leave a public record
Use independent review and publish non-sensitive evidence so claims can be checked over time.
Interactive pressure test
Choose the impact you know best.
Each lens turns the draft into four practical questions: what could go wrong, what proof is needed, who needs protection, and what should stop the project.
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Energy + grid
Can the grid carry the load without shifting risk to the public?
- What could go wrong?
- New demand could weaken reliability, delay cleaner power, or shift infrastructure costs onto households.
- What proof is needed?
- A public grid-impact study, demand assumptions, reliability safeguards, and a clear plan for who pays.
- Who needs protection?
- Ratepayers, vulnerable households, local utilities, workers, and communities already carrying energy burdens.
- When should it pause?
- When the project cannot show reliable supply or prevent unreasonable public cost and service risk.
Your focused review question
What minimum energy and grid evidence should be public before an AI infrastructure project can claim alignment?Answer on this site
Formal public draft
Minimum requirements under review
Status: public-review one-pager. The language below is the source draft rendered for easier reading; it is not a final standard or certification scheme.
Core principle
AI infrastructure should not raise bills, drain water, weaken grids, extract data, displace workers, or burden ecosystems without transparent evidence, affected-party governance, and measurable community benefit.
Energy and reliability
Grid-impact analysis, reliability safeguards, and a resilience contribution.
Household-bill protection
No modeled net harm for vulnerable households without mitigation or benefit routing.
Water
Water-use disclosure, basin-specific thresholds, drought sensitivity, and public reporting.
Community benefit
A binding community benefit agreement with participatory governance.
Workforce and students
Local training, transition benefits, no-surprise automation, and career pathways.
Telemetry and data
Public-interest telemetry governed through a data trust or equivalent accountability.
Ecological accountability
Baseline ecological review, restoration triggers, and Rights-of-Nature alignment where legally viable.
Audit
Independent review, a public dashboard, a claims register, and evidence publication.
No-go conditions
Defined conditions that pause, redesign, or reject the project.
Affected-party governance
People who carry the risk have a meaningful role in decisions, oversight, and remedy.
Minimum evidence threshold
The least proof that must exist before an actor can make an alignment or public-benefit claim.
Public record
A non-sensitive receipt showing what was measured, promised, decided, delivered, and audited.
One focused contribution
What would make this requirement credible in the real world?
Choose one missing proof, protection, decision right, or pause condition. You can submit it on this site without a GitHub account.
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