On "OpenAI is stepping back from NDAs for data center projects"

OpenAI dropping NDAs on data center projects is smart PR that costs nothing and buys credibility it desperately needed after the midterm backlash. This sets a useful precedent—if you're asking a community to host infrastructure that'll reshape their grid and property values, hiding behind legal silence looks like you've got something to hide. For SEO and discovery folks, watch how this plays into narrative control: OpenAI's betting that transparency theater (real transparency, actually) becomes its own moat against the "secretive AI company" framing that's been sticking. The move doesn't solve the core conflict—communities still don't want the power load—but it removes one easy argument against the deal.