Build t Right
A long wall of pale stone on the prairie at first light, with one arched door lit from within and a path curving up to it through the mist.
The same wall after dark: the door and the glass roof glow gold, lanterns line the path, and the Milky Way stands overhead.

Your town6:12 AMFirst light

Build it right.Build it beautiful.

The works of this century, built to keep their word to the towns they stand in.

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Right is the wall.

One door.

Beautiful is what it opens onto.

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Within

Beautiful is a place
you can walk into

Inside, as we have drawn it, the machines are still there, behind glass at the far end. Their warmth keeps the rooms around them open all year. Seven of those rooms, each behind its own door.

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Imagined with AI · a proposal, not a planned projectFrom The Commons

The films

Watch it built

The films show what all of this could look like. The trailer is thirty seconds. The four below it are two minutes each.

Imagined with AI The trailerNow showing · 0:30
Play the film: The Century’s WorksOne American day, coast to coast · 2:00 Play the film: Near InfiniteWarmth, and answers · 2:00 Play the film: A Year in Our TownOne hillside, four seasons · 2:00 Play the film: The CommonsThe rooms inside · 2:00

Imagined with AI · a proposal, not a planned projectAll 30 films are in the screening room

The American Works

Six ways to build it

Six movements for the buildings that hold the machines. Each is seen twice: as it meets the sky, and as the world it keeps inside. Step into any of them.

Terraced round pools of pale blue water on a white structure above the clouds, with a tall plume of steam and small figures walking the rims at dawn. A plateau of warm pools. 01Thermal A vast pale wall in pink dawn cloud with one tall glowing arched door, and a line of small figures walking toward it. A white wall, and one door. 02The Sealed Order Clusters of slender white towers carrying two rings, with a glowing glass sphere held between them above the clouds, and small figures on a pale plaza. A lantern above the clouds. 03Served & Servant A luminous ring roof on slender columns over a round plaza full of people, on a green hill in morning mist. A circle of light over the town. 04Civic Green hills at dawn with a long glowing glass ridge along one crest, mist in the valleys, and a few small figures. Hills that are the building. 05Landform A glass block in a city square at blue hour, filled with vertical tubes in blue, yellow, orange and green, with a crowd standing before it on wet paving. Everything in the open. 06Expressed Plant

Imagined with AI · a proposal, not a planned projectThe campaigns

Your town

The building down the road

It’s a data center. Built right, its roof is a hill the town climbs, and its warmth keeps the pool open all winter. Same road. Same machines inside. Drag across the picture, then turn the year.

The same town in spring: the building has become a green hill with a glass hall along its side, blossom on the trees and kites above the roof.The same town in summer: the roof is a green hill the town climbs, with a pool beside the glass hall and wheat in the foreground.The same town in autumn: the hill and its glass hall glow among orange trees at harvest.The same town on a winter evening: snow on the roofs, and the glass hall lit warm across the fields.
A small town in late winter with a plain gray data center at its edge.
TodayBuilt right · Summer
Turn the year

Imagined with AI · a proposal, not a planned projectFrom A Year in Our Town

Every century builds the works it is remembered by. Ours hold the machines. Build them beautiful, and the town walks in. Build them right, and they keep their word.

The Standard

Right is a promise
you can check

Seven commitments, in writing. Six already stand somewhere in America, and the seventh has begun in New Jersey. Companies adopt them. Officials require them. Neighbors ask for them.

  1. The town knows who is coming before it votes.

    Where it already standsMicrosoft has ended its non-disclosure agreements with local governments. In Salix, Iowa, a proposed moratorium failed the week the tenant was named. The receipt

  2. A public, binding rate keeps the building’s costs on the building’s bill.

    Where it already standsVirginia’s GS-5 tariff sets 14-year terms and an 85% minimum payment. Ohio’s sets 85% over 12 years. The receipt

  3. New lines and substations are paid for by the building that needs them.

    Where it already standsOne Ohio campus is paying $4.2 billion for its own transmission. The receipt

  4. Quiet at night, the same water around and around, and the look of the building: written into the permit, and measured.

    Where it already standsChandler, Arizona and Prince William County, Virginia show what happens when the numbers are left out. The receipt

  5. What the town receives is signed before the town decides.

    Where it already standsBrookings and the Federation of American Scientists have both published the practice. The receipt

  6. If the plans change, the cost stays with the company.

    Where it already standsGeorgia Power backstops new generation through 2031, and the state’s commission can order a remedy. The receipt

  7. Water, electricity, taxes and backup runtime, published every year.

    Where it has begunNew Jersey made part of it law in August 2026: data centers there report their energy and water use to the state twice a year, and the state publishes it. The first reports are due by November 27, 2026. The receipt

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