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Strategy

Community Compact

What the community receives in exchange for hosting major infrastructure — written before scale, not after it.

Employment and workforce

  • Local high-wage jobs with transparent permanent employment reporting
  • Veteran transition pathways
  • Military-spouse recruiting
  • Emerald AI Infrastructure Academy with NWFSC, OTC, UWF and UF-type partners
  • Paid internships and apprenticeships

Local economic participation

  • A published local procurement target
  • Startup and research compute access
  • A community reinvestment mechanism, established once economics are validated

What we will not claim

Project Emerald will not overstate permanent data-center maintenance employment. The jobs thesis comes from the broader campus ecosystem — engineering, software, simulation, security, managed services, training and the companies that co-locate around the capability — not from facility operations alone.