Enable Partial Ownership or Carried Shares of Profit Provisions

If requested from frontline communities, certify community stakeholders as partial owners in data center infrastructure. Establish measures to mitigate community risk and liability (such as free equity or no-interest loans).1

Note that this might only be possible if the CBA process involves stakeholders with well-established structures to receive or manage payments.

Strong example

The Morongo Band of Mission Indians near Palm Springs, California, is a part-investor in the transmission line owned by Morongo Transmission LLC and plans to use direct payments to upgrade renewable energy infrastructure for the grid.

  1. James J. A. Blair et al., Building Community Power: Community Benefits Agreements Across the Global Energy Supply Chain, Climate and Community Institute, October 2025,
    https://climateandcommunity.org/research/cbas. ↩︎