The Manifesto
A national movement to ensure that the communities powering the AI economy receive a fair share of what they have built, funded, and made possible.
"They built the AI on your intelligence. They trained it on your conversations. They're running it on your electricity. They're using it to replace your job. And every time you use it to search for a new one, you're making it better at replacing the next person. The AI Power Dividend says: enough. It's time for your share."
The Extraction Engine
The AI industry did not just train its models on publicly available human knowledge and stop. It built a perpetual extraction machine — a system designed to continuously harvest human intelligence, at scale, without disclosure, without consent, and without compensation, forever.
Phase 1
The Original Scrape
Every book, article, forum post, academic paper, creative work, and piece of human expression posted online was scraped and used to train the foundation models. No consent. No compensation. No disclosure.
Phase 2
The Ongoing Harvest
Every interaction with every AI system — every question asked, every document uploaded, every conversation had — is fed back into the model to make it smarter and more valuable. The user is not the customer. The user is the raw material.
Phase 3
The Platform Capture
Grok is trained on every post on X/Twitter. Meta's models on every Facebook post. Google's on every website and email. These are not side effects. They are the business model.
This was always about power.
The electricity bill is the entry point because it is the most immediate, most measurable, and most legally actionable expression of a much deeper extraction. But the word "power" was chosen deliberately — because it carries all four meanings simultaneously.
Layer 1
Grid Power
Who lost it: Residential ratepayers
Who took it: Data center operators
Layer 2
Economic Power
Who lost it: Workers and employees
Who took it: Corporations replacing payroll with tokens
Layer 3
Human Power
Who lost it: Everyone whose data trained the models
Who took it: AI companies
Layer 4
Credential Power
Who lost it: Young people and students
Who took it: AI agents replacing entry-level roles
The AI Power Dividend Act
Since 1982, Alaska has paid every resident an annual dividend from oil company profits. The principle: the oil belonged to the people of Alaska, not to the companies extracting it. The companies paid a royalty. The people received a dividend.
The AI Power Dividend applies the same logic: a per-kWh Community Power Contribution on all data centers consuming 5 MW or more, flowing into a locally governed Community Power Fund.
Residential Bill Subsidies
Direct per-kWh credit on residential bills, doubled for low-income households
Local Grid Investment
Distribution infrastructure upgrades in the communities hosting data centers
AI Job Guild Fund
Workforce transition training funded by the companies whose AI is causing the displacement
Federal is blocked. Local is winning.
Big Tech spent $1.1 billion on political influence in 2024–2025. One in four federal lobbyists now work on AI issues. The wall at the federal level is real and deliberately constructed.
But local zoning, permitting, and tax abatement authority is constitutionally protected and significantly harder to preempt. Tucson blocked a $3.6B Amazon data center. Henrico County secured $60M for affordable housing. Memphis is getting a community fund from xAI profits.
Every local win becomes a template for the next community.