WASHINGTON, D.C. — OpenAI announced a community compact Thursday promising greater disclosure about future computing campuses, as opposition to data-center growth becomes a larger political and economic issue.

The company says campuses it owns and operates will pay their full electricity and related infrastructure costs, provide financial assurances before major spending, publish water and power use, and disclose construction plans and independent noise studies.

It also promises not to require nondisclosure agreements from public officials, apart from narrow protections for legitimate security, trade-secret and other sensitive information.

The compact calls for local hiring forecasts, apprenticeship reporting and community-selected investments. A separate policy blueprint urges governments to require public incentive terms and ways to recover benefits when developers miss commitments.

Those are commitments and proposals, not findings that every project has met them. The ownership-and-operation wording also matters: the company’s announcement does not establish that identical terms automatically govern every partner-owned facility.

Reuters reported that political resistance and unfavorable data-center ballot results have added pressure on the industry. St. Charles County is separately considering an extension of its own moratorium; no pending local OpenAI project has been established.