The case, in two columns
This is not a list of problems. Net-Positive Data Centers scores CognioNews stories against the sovereign-compute doctrine and sorts each one onto one of two fronts: the indictment — centralised AI's resource cost breaking its own promise; and the alternative — the edge winning through community energy, local compute, and shared ownership. The centre cannot hold. The edge inherits. The stream is the evidence for both, refreshing itself.
Snapshot
The scan pipeline reads the CognioNews manifest, applies the doctrine's edge-sovereignty filter, and surfaces the stories that map to the two fronts — the indictment and the alternative. The figures below reflect the most recent pipeline run.
Front 1 — the indictment
The centre cannot hold
Stories where centralised AI's resource cost breaks its own promise — emissions overshoots, grid strain, water draw, moratoria. Microsoft's +25% (while holding its 2030 pledge) is Exhibit A.
Front 2 — the alternative
The edge inherits
Stories where the edge wins — community energy ownership, local compute, sovereign infrastructure, profit-sharing models. The Welsh community-ownership signal, and its kind. This front is deliberately narrow: the alternative is still early, and a thin column here is the signal arriving before the consensus, not a gap in the case.
Matched stories
Each entry is a public story CognioNews surfaced and NPDC matched against the doctrine's terms. The relevance line names which front the story maps to — indictment or alternative — the match itself, not commentary. Headlines link to the CognioNews story; stories appear in descending signal order.
The stream widens as the pipeline runs. NPDC's matcher scores CognioNews stories against the doctrine's edge-sovereignty terms — emissions overshoot and grid strain on one front, community energy and local compute on the other — so the feed stays anchored to the case rather than to the news cycle at large. Reading the two fronts is the work; sovereign compute is where it points.
Read the two-front case The sovereignty spine
Sovereign compute is one half of the spine; GoldBerry holds the other — your own data. The whitepaper is in preparation — leave an email to be notified when v1 publishes. Until then, this stream is the evidence.