This feasibility study assesses the technical, economic, and organizational viability of establishing a community-owned distributed mesh data center network in Louisville, Kentucky. The proposed Louisville Community Data Center Cooperative (LCDCC) would deploy 5,000 computing nodes across Louisville Metro, creating America's first large-scale community-owned edge computing infrastructure.

Community mesh networks demonstrate that internet infrastructure can operate as a profitable public utility using proven cooperative models.

When Alexander Hamilton established America's financial system in the 1790s, he designed securities markets with explicit productive purpose. His "Report on Public Credit" aimed to solve a fundamental coordination problem: how to channel dispersed private capital toward national infrastructure and industrial development while establishing the young republic's creditworthiness.