Compute Stewardship Council

Field notes

The draft treats a data center and its host community as a linked assessment unit, with facility-level certification rather than company-wide approval. Its scoring model gives equal weight to five pillars but also imposes minimum floors, preventing a strong result in one area from offsetting a failure in another. Proposed evidence includes published incentive agreements, measured sound levels, disclosed water sources, hourly energy matching, and quarterly reporting on community benefits.