Where we stand
The worry is real. We take it seriously.
People are watching data centers rise near their neighborhoods and asking hard questions — about the water they use, the power they pull, the land they take, and the neighbors who get pushed aside. Those questions are fair. We don’t think the honest answer is to wave them away.
Our answer
AI is worth building only when it earns its place — honest about what it costs, genuinely useful to the people who need it most, and accountable to the community it serves.
The honest picture
AI’s footprint is real — and it’s growing.
We won’t pretend otherwise. Running AI takes real energy and real water, and the data centers behind it are expanding fast.
≈2×
The projected growth in electricity used by AI and data centers by 2030 — and that load lands hardest on the communities closest to the buildings.
Source: International Energy Agency, 2025
Equity
AI can change things for people who’ve been left out.
We’ve seen this before. When the climate crisis hit the headlines, the guilt got aimed at everyday people — skip the straw, shrink your footprint — while the largest sources of harm carried on. It wasn’t fair, and it didn’t fix much. The same pattern is starting with AI.
A veteran navigating their benefits
Someone rebuilding after addiction
A student figuring out next steps
The weight of this doesn’t belong on the people reaching for help — it belongs with those building it, ourselves included.
AI’s impact is real, and worth taking seriously. Both are true at once — and we’d rather sit with that honestly than pretend it away.
Our part, on the record
We record our footprint — and we’ll report yours.
We track the energy and water behind every conversation, and exactly how we calculate it. Rather than lump it into one public figure, we report it where it matters most — privately, to each organization we serve. Ask for yours, and every quarter we’ll send you your own impact report: your usage, your energy and water, and the math behind every number.
Our pledge
We intend to be on the right side of this — and we’ll put it in writing.
Not just good intentions. Commitments you can hold us to:
Community benefit comes first
Harm reduction by design
A loud voice for people over profits
A hard line
Who this is for
The good has to be real — and reach the people who need it most.
This is the whole reason we build. Real help, in plain language — for a parent after an after-school program, a neighbor looking for work, a family that needs groceries this week.
The situation
A parent looking for after-school programs
In minutes, they
find a free youth program
and exactly how to sign up this week — no cost, no runaround.
The situation
Someone ready to get back to work
In minutes, they
find free job training
and who’s hiring nearby — no fees, no gatekeeping.
The situation
A family running low on groceries
In minutes, they
find a food pantry
open near them today, with hours and what to bring.
The situation
A parent with no one to ask
In minutes, they
find the right services
for their family — in one place, in plain language.
Every one of these is a real person, getting help they can act on.
For the community you serve
This is a decision about your community.
If you’re weighing whether to bring AI to the people you serve, this is the standard we think it should meet — and the one we hold ourselves to.
Hold us to it.
We record every bit of it and report it straight to the organizations we serve. Ask for yours anytime — and hold us to it.