If they build it in your backyard, you get a share.

A short history of yes

  1. 1869The railroad reaches across the continent.
    Crowds of workers cheering between two locomotives as the last spike is driven at Promontory, Utah
    Driving of the Golden Spike, Promontory, Utah, May 10, 1869. Library of Congress.
  2. 1894Electricity earns a mark the public can trust.
    The Grand Court of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition lit by electric light at night, crowds and boats on the basin
    The Grand Court at night, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893. Engraving by Charles Graham. Library of Congress.
  3. 1936A dam in the desert lights the Southwest.
    Boulder Dam rising across Black Canyon with its intake towers, nearing completion
    Boulder Dam nearing completion, May 1935. National Archives, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library.
  4. 1956The interstate begins.
    The 1955 federal map of the planned National System of Interstate and Defense Highways
    National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, September 1955. U.S. Bureau of Public Roads.
  5. 1997The yes gets a name: the social license to operate.
  6. 2027The mark for what America builds next.
    A Visible Benefit Certified Project plaque, the 2027 seal, mounted on a limestone wall beside a street
The empty chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives, rows of seats facing the rostrum and the flag

Now

The yes has become the hardest part.

$286 billion

of American projects stopped or delayed by local opposition in fifteen months.

14 percent

of Americans would welcome a data center in their own town.

Data Center Watch, 2025 through the first quarter of 2026 · Reuters/Ipsos, June 2026

Their share

Visible Benefit

Every project creates value.

The town rarely sees it.

So a share is set aside for the people who live there.

On a plaque at the door. On a card in every home.

Everybody can see it.

When a town says yes, it should be able to point to why.

Visible Benefit

Make the benefit as visible as the building.

When a project earns the mark, the people who live beside it share in what it creates, and they can see it.

Visible Benefit certified project plaque at a building entrance
At the door
Visible Benefit debit card on a walnut table
In every household
A stainless plaque on a school entrance pillar: Funded by the VeriCompute Campus, a Visible Benefit project, 2026
At the school down the road

Building something

Be among the first projects to carry the mark.

Hosting something

Be among the first communities to require it.

For municipalities and communities

The Build Here Pledge

AI will be built somewhere. Make sure it’s America.

Builders who sign commit to build here and share what they build with the towns that say yes.

Take the pledgeWhy it matters

The last industrial revolution built fortunes. This one can share them.

Starting in the towns that build it.

Read the paper: The Case for Visible Benefit