Hyperscaler Compact
An idea that hyperscale data center operators and the jurisdictions hosting them should formalize a reciprocal bargain: predictable siting and firm clean power in exchange for industry-funded atmospheric repair, grid investment, and host community benefit. Applies the Fairchild Pattern to direct air capture, with hyperscaler offtake providing the anchor demand that finances the Second Grid.
An idea that the hyperscale data center operators driving AI-era load growth, and the jurisdictions hosting them, should formalize a reciprocal bargain: on one side, predictable siting, expedited interconnection, and access to firm clean power; on the other, industry-funded obligations to atmospheric repair, grid modernization, and host community benefit. The compact applies the Fairchild Pattern to direct air capture, with hyperscaler offtake becoming the bankable anchor demand that drives DAC down the learning curve. Colocated DAC facilities can absorb waste heat and otherwise curtailed clean energy from data centers, deepening the coupling. Self-extinguishing once that cost curve is delivered, the Compact treats hyperscaler load as the anchor tenancy that finances the Second Grid.