OpenAI publishes a community compact for the compute campuses it runs

OpenAI on Thursday published a National Community Compact and a Compute Campus Policy Blueprint, the company said in a post dated November 5, 2026. The compact is what OpenAI says communities can expect at future compute campuses the company owns and operates. The blueprint asks governments to set rules for the wider industry. OpenAI said each future campus it owns will have a local compact, a local point of contact, early resident input and a public yearly report.

The commitments OpenAI listed include paying the full cost of the electricity it uses and of the infrastructure needed to serve it, a water plan that prefers closed-loop or low-water cooling, and published site-level water and electricity use. It said it will not use nondisclosure agreements with public officials except for narrow protections covering security, trade secrets or competitively sensitive information. It also said it will publish expected jobs and report yearly on hiring and apprenticeships. OpenAI pointed to a $4.8 million grant in Effingham County, Georgia, for free school meals for all 14,000 students in the county, and a joint $6 million childcare commitment with SB Energy in Pike County, Ohio. It said an agreement with Georgia Power lets the utility cut power to a planned Effingham campus by up to 1,000 megawatts when demand is high.