A New Kind of Public Utility—Powered by Your Data
We’re excited about Community Public Utilities (CPUs)—a new model that grew from our work designing a Food Utility in Denver. That work is currenly being piloted through the Colorado Food Cluster’s Food Trust, providing free, high-quality groceries to a cohort of residents.
CPUs take this idea further, helping communities harness their data to make essential goods and services—like food, healthcare, and housing—more affordable and accessible. Instead of data’s value being locked away in corporations, a CPUs ensure it serves the people who generate the data, all managed by a trusted intermediary working for the community.
We shared this vision at a Project Liberty roundtable in last fall, and momentum is building. People are looking for better ways to use data for public good, and CPUs offer a practical, self-sustaining solution that puts communities first.
