OpenAI Publishes a National Community Compact Pledging No NDAs With Public Officials at Future Campuses It Owns, and Asks Lawmakers to Write Similar Rules

On November 5, 2026, OpenAI published a National Community Compact and a Compute Campus Policy Blueprint. The compact covers future campuses that OpenAI will own and operate. There, it says, it will pay the full cost of the electricity it uses and the infrastructure needed to serve it, publish site-level water and electricity use, and will not use non-disclosure agreements with public officials, keeping narrow protections for security information, trade secrets and competitively sensitive information.

The blueprint asks federal, state, and local policymakers to set rules for the industry: state utility commissions should require large electricity customers to cover the costs they add to the grid, and there should be narrow limits on when developers can require public officials to sign NDAs. OpenAI’s own example of grid flexibility is its planned Effingham County, Georgia, campus, where its agreement lets Georgia Power cut the power it delivers by up to 1,000 megawatts during periods of high demand. The pledges are voluntary and, by OpenAI’s own wording, apply to future campuses it owns and operates.