AI infrastructure is becoming as foundational as electricity was a century ago.
The question is whether it's built with communities or on top of them.
@JensenHuang and @GavinSBaker circled the same point this week: data centers can be a genuine win for the towns that host them, but only if the builder shows up first, listens before breaking ground, and keeps the promises made on day one.
In Independence, MO, that meant:
- We paid off $270K in local school lunch debt before we ever broke ground.
- More than 99% of our construction workforce is local union labor.
- We signed a workforce partnership with Metropolitan Community College.
- Our closed-loop cooling system uses about as much water each year as a single restaurant, less than a typical gas station.
We show up under our own name. We work in the open with the community. And the commitments we make on day one are the standard we hold ourselves to for the life of the facility.
More on how we build AI responsibly: https://t.co/c6bRHInStT