AI Compute Campuses Adopt Local Compacts

Major AI firms will formalize site‑level 'community compacts' that commit to paying full infrastructure costs, publish water and energy use, refuse broad NDAs with public officials, and pledge local hiring and investment. These compacts aim to preempt local opposition and create an auditable accountability regime for compute campus siting. — If adopted widely, compacts could reshape how AI infrastructure is permitted and sited, shifting bargaining power toward municipalities and embedding transparency and resource safeguards into tech industrial policy.