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Community

Infrastructure should always add to its community.

Every MicroLink site sits inside of a community, we prefer to ask and listen to what the community wants before we start to develop a program we think might help.

The principle01

Separate from the build.
Connected by the hot water.

The data center stands on its own. The community program is its own commitment, co designed with the neighborhood's own organizations, connected to the facility only by the heat that leaves the plant.

Programs built on the heat02
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Food

Localized fresh food grown on recovered heat

Controlled environment growing on recovered heat, anchoring food access and training.

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Make

Pigment production, a bioreactor, a skills program

A working brewery on hot water, a visible civic draw and a skills program.

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Use

A neighborhood laundry, everyday utility

A neighborhood laundry on recovered heat, everyday utility for residents.

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Gather

Community, office space, science center

Community and office space, open to the neighborhood.

The showpiece

You choose
how it looks.

If your city invites us in, the design is not ours alone. We will take suggestions, we will take recommendations, and where a city wants one, we will put it to a vote.

We promise to make it a building that earns a place in the architectural history of your city, and we would like your input on that.

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Who leads04

Local organizations
lead.

In every market we build, the neighborhood's own organizations design the program. We fund the trusted doers on multi year terms rather than arriving with a finished plan.

By our own definition, we can't do this alone. We invite you to help build solutions in your area, or help us design solutions for data centers everywhere.

How we earn it05
1

Earn legitimacy

Listen first, with the community's organizations and local representatives.

2

Fund the doers

Multi year support to trusted grassroots anchors already doing the work.

3

Workforce pipeline

A local trades feeder with real hiring into construction and operations.

4

Anchor the schools

STEM and career pathways through the neighborhood's schools.

Get involved06

Building near you? Help shape the program.

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