in U.S. projects blocked or delayed during a four-month 2025 window1
Fund this Founding funder brief / 2026
Prepared for data-center builders, utilities, and infrastructure funders
Two markets. One national model.
Power the future here.
Prove that a data center can earn a yes by putting rates, water, jobs, taxes, and obligations in public before opposition owns the story.
Founding commitment$3M / 12 months
The funder thesis
Public opposition is canceling projects.
EPRI reports at least 25 U.S. projects canceled in 2025 and an estimated $98 billion blocked or delayed from March through June. The recurring failure is not technology. It is arriving after residents believe the bill was hidden and the benefits were overstated.
$3 million funds media and organizing in two live markets.The opening
The public sees the upside but expects to get stuck with the bill.
say data centers are bad / good for home energy costs2
say data centers are good / bad for local jobs2
Support grows when residents can inspect and enforce the deal.
Postpartisan research / 30-day media scan
The fight is not about AI. It is about who pays.
17,291public mentions in the rolling 30-day view
In a rolling 30-day view, Postpartisan mapped 17,291 public mentions across six exact-match terms. Discussion boards carried nearly half the conversation. Among mentions classified by sentiment, negative posts outnumbered positive posts almost three to one. The attack is concrete: private profit, public power bills, scarce water, closed-door deals. A pro-build campaign has to answer that argument first.
What we would lead with, backed by the data.
You do not pay their bill.
Lead with the ratepayer firewall. State who funds generation, transmission, interconnection, and stranded capacity in language a household can verify.
The host writes the deal.
Treat the community as the counterparty. Put water, land, jobs, taxes, and remedies in one compact before the hearing.
Every promise stays visible.
Give each obligation an owner, date, verification method, and public status after approval.
Lead withYour bill. Your water. Your terms. Your upside.
Leave behindAI inevitability. Jobs someday. Trust us.
Method: six exact-match terms across social, video, discussion, news, and web. Project total: 18,756 mentions. Active 30-day view: 17,291 mentions; 47.23% discussion; 74% of positive-or-negative classifications were negative. Full query and dashboard available in diligence.
The affirmative case
A yes begins with a host compact.
One public document answers five questions: who pays, who benefits, what is protected, who audits, and what happens when a commitment is missed.
The ratepayer is protected
Publish who pays for generation, transmission, interconnection, and stranded capacity.
The host can count the gain
Name the taxes, construction work, permanent jobs, suppliers, and community obligations.
The operating rules are visible
Set measurable standards for water, sound, land, setbacks, and emergency operations.
The promises remain public
Keep every obligation, owner, date, and performance update in a public record.
Why Postpartisan
Most firms buy impressions. We organize before the hearing.
Postpartisan tracks the live media fight, answers it with sourced local media, and puts organizers in the rooms where the permit will be decided. What organizers hear goes back into the next story, film, and ad.
Track
Monitor local news, social media, discussion boards, and opposition language every day.
Answer
Turn rate, water, job, tax, and land facts into local editorial, film, and rapid response.
Organize
Recruit local voices and bring supporters into public meetings before the hearing.
Report
Show the client what people heard, who showed up, and how the public decision moved.
The media shows us the objection. The field tells us whether our answer works.
Why this team
The people who pitch the campaign will run it.
Strategy / Systems
Jeremy Jones
Built the media-sentiment and automation system Postpartisan will use to track opposition, source claims, and report what moves.
This campaignRun the live media scan, source every claim, automate local variants, and report what changes.
Editorial / Creative
Davis Hunt
Founder and editor-in-chief of The Pamphleteer, an independent daily built to make local readers stop, read, and share.
This campaignTurn technical stakes into daily editorial local readers choose to open and share.
Organizing / Operations
Seneca Scott
Cornell-educated former union leader with 20+ years in labor and community organizing. He helped lead Oakland's successful 2024 mayoral recall.
This campaignRecruit local operators, organize before the hearing, and report what online data misses.
Film / Media
Walden Alexander
Twenty years in political, consumer, and technology film. He turns technical conflicts into stories people remember.
This campaignTurn rate bills, work, water, and local control into films people feel and remember.
The same four founders own the media scan, the local case, the field operation, and the final report.
How we operate
Prove the deal before selling the future.
Track the opposition. Publish the facts. Organize local support. Measure what changes.
Track
Monitor rates, water, land, jobs, local news, social media, and the opposition case.
Define
Put the host's obligations on rates, water, jobs, taxes, and enforcement in one public compact.
Test
Learn which explanations people understand and which claims fail under scrutiny.
Organize
Run local media, paid distribution, partnerships, and field work before the public decision.
Report
Publish what the client promised, what the campaign did, and what the decision produced.
We do not enter the second market until the first one works.
How the $3 million is released
Three stages. Each one earns the next.
The lead funder reviews the media data, local reach, organizing results, and public decision before releasing the next stage.
Build the local case
Select the first market, launch continuous media sentiment analysis, source the rate and water facts, recruit local operators, and draft the host compact.
Release the next stage when
The source file is complete, the project sponsor has approved the compact, and local operators are ready to work.
Move the first market
Run local editorial, film, paid media, rapid response, partnerships, and organizing through a live public decision.
Release the next stage when
The campaign reached the target audience, local supporters attended the public meeting, and the media scan shows which arguments gained or lost ground.
Repeat it in market two
Apply the working media and organizing model in a second market and publish both host compacts and results.
Release the next stage when
Two markets have complete media, field, and decision records the client can use again.
How we stay accountable
Four rules keep the public case honest.
Ratepayer costs
Every affordability claim names the rate design, the cost, and who pays.
Public obligations
Every promise has an owner, date, verification method, and public status.
Local voices
Local reviewers test the compact before launch, and paid relationships are disclosed.
Reported results
Set the measures before launch and report what changed after the campaign.
Funder reportingFunders receive the live media-sentiment dashboard, weekly field report, source file, and public host-compact tracker.
Year one
Year one ends with two live markets and a public record.
live launch markets
public host compacts
live media-sentiment dashboards
reusable national playbook
Reported quarterly
Media sentiment / target reach / local partners / meeting turnout / decision milestones / compact compliance
Year-one commitments for the funded launch.
The founding commitment
$3M12 months
Put $3 million into two live markets, from media scan to public hearing.
The largest share goes to local organizing because a permit is won in public rooms, not on a dashboard.
The decision
Win the public case before the hearing.
Put the deal in public, answer the rate and resource questions, and organize local support before the permit decision.
Start the conversation