FUTURE STUDYCASE 002
SEMICONDUCTOR · JURISDICTION TBD
Fabrication facility
Water-intensive manufacturing, workforce, incentives, supply chain, and environmental review.
A civic transparency tool
Metrics that
matter.
Your community. Your questions. See what big projects could mean for public money, water, energy, and jobs—with the sources, assumptions, and missing evidence in plain sight.
Study catalog
Big decisions.
Shared understanding.
Follow the money. Explore the tradeoffs. Check the evidence. Each study opens up the numbers behind a proposal so everyone can ask better questions.
ACTIVE DEMOCASE 001 ↗
500MW
DATA CENTER · SIOUX FALLS, SD
Hyperscale campus impact study
Test the fiscal deal, grid load, water use, labor pressure, public costs, and evidence readiness.
FUTURE STUDYCASE 003
ENERGY · JURISDICTION TBD
Battery gigafactory
Industrial demand, logistics, workforce, hazardous materials, tax base, and public infrastructure.
The Urban Lens method
See the evidence. Ask better questions.
Make assumptions visible
Every input is sourced, dated, or clearly labeled as a placeholder.
Count costs and benefits
Gross economic activity is separated from net public value and risk.
Compare real alternatives
The proposal is tested against no-project, different deal, and alternative-use cases.
Show what is missing
Material evidence gates prevent premature vote recommendations.
Built for shared facts
Public information.
For everyone.
Residents see plain-language consequences and unanswered questions.
Policy makers see deal terms, public value, safeguards, and evidence gates.
Developers see feasibility constraints and transparent approval criteria.
Analysts see assumptions, equations, sources, and reproducible outputs.