The resources

• Regen Data Center · data-center · v0.1 · draftNew-build hyperscale and colocation data centers and their host places.
• The defining factA developer arrives with a plan and the capital. This is the defining fact of the model — it is why there is no capital-formation gate, why entry is site control rather than a land trust, and why there are no stewardship enterprise models. Everything else follows from this line.
• Entry — Phase 1 — Alignment (S02)Not: Retrofits of existing facilities (a sibling model); Telecom edge sites. Siblings: Land regeneration / conservation (LRLT entry, capital-formation gate present, stewardship-first, enterprise models required.) · Urban renewal (Enters Phase 2, no land trust.)
• North starA data center that leaves its watershed healthier, its grid stronger, its neighbours warmer, and its community wealthier than it found them — because the place wrote the spec before the facility locked it. Compute becomes civic infrastructure; the facility is an acupuncture point in a living landscape, not an enclosure on it.
• The refusalWe will not call Mitigated regenerative. Reduced damage is not added life.

Life before Profits.

We will not call Mitigated regenerative. Reduced damage is not added life. Every pattern carries an honest precedent tier; an honest first is worth more than a borrowed track record.

What is illustrative — and what we dropped

• Phase durationsIllustrative ExampleIndicative per-phase ranges only — never a total. Founder decision (July 2026): “2–3 months to read the place” reads as the siting study a developer already budgets; a summed “~15 months to FID” reads as a delay. Some schedules are much shorter, some longer. We never publish a total front-end figure.
• Planner capital-weightsIllustrative ExamplePedagogical by design. The weights teach how the five capitals trade against one another; they are labeled at source and are not a measured recognition. Label, don’t fix.
• Macro cost/opposition figures (~$130B blocked · ~$10.7M/MW · 0.3–2% capex)Dropped — not sourcedDROPPED, not sourced (Founder decision, July 2026). The builder argument doesn’t need a number — it needs “blocked, litigated, stalled at interconnect; permission is your critical path,” which is qualitative, sourced, and true.

Library honesty — every pattern carries its precedent tier

• 47Operating
• 18Pilot
• 32Proposal
• 3Standard
• 6Regulatory

106 patterns, each labeled — Operating means running now; Proposal means no operating precedent yet. Never called regenerative on the strength of a plan alone.

Goodhart guard — where the metrics are gamed, and how we close it

• Water accounting“Water-positive” is trivially gamed by replenishing a DIFFERENT basin than the one drawn down.
  • Same-basin only — out-of-basin offsets are NOT accepted
  • Named gauges
  • Quarterly public reporting
• Jobs countingConstruction headcount masquerading as permanent employment.
  • Count permanent LOCAL hires only
  • Tranche vesting against permanent local hires, not construction peaks

A declared absence

Stewardship enterprise models (state S11) — absent by designA developer arrives with a plan and the capital. That single defining fact is why there is no capital-formation gate, why entry is site control rather than a land trust, and why the land is not itself earning — so there are no stewardship enterprise models. The absence is declared, not hidden: a declared absence with its reason is an artifact; a drop without a reason would be a defect.