#provider-opacity
Issues, solutions, and case studies for provider-opacity
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#00210Siting deals are negotiated under non-disclosure agreements and operating data is withheld, so communities cannot evaluate the trade
Around 80% of Virginia localities with data-center activity have NDAs in place. Where reporting is mandatory it is widely ignored: the EU database's first cycle saw 36% participation with no consequences for the rest.
#00170Closed model and API providers do not disclose the data needed to compute a real footprint
Consumer-side tools must assume model architecture and a worldwide-average grid because providers publish almost nothing about model size, hardware, or data-centre efficiency. Every downstream estimate therefore carries wide, irreducible error bars.