A series from The Race

Capacity Governance

How the AI infrastructure buildout is turning local development decisions into regional questions of power, water, public cost, institutional capacity, and democratic control. And how our current decision-making model may need to be revised to fit.

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Part 1

From Land Use to Capacity Governance: The AI Infrastructure Problem Coming Into View

AI data centers are no longer merely local land-use projects. They are claims on regional power, water, infrastructure, and public capacity. Can our distributed institutions govern the whole before the choices become difficult to reverse?
27 Jul 2026

Installments in reading order

From Land Use to Capacity Governance: The AI Infrastructure Problem Coming Into View