ONE//For Good — Link to Good

Origin · 起点

From a dataset
to a way of seeing. 从一个数据集，走到一个新的世界观。

It began with Microsoft Planetary Computer's HREA — High Resolution Energy Access — dataset. It was built to answer one question: where is there no electricity? But the question we ended up asking was different.

起点是 Microsoft Planetary Computer 的 HREA 数据集。它原本是在回答一个问题：哪里没有电？但你最终走到的问题是——

Where is electricity only one connection away?

哪里距离"有电"只差一个连接？

HREA · Lost in the Dark, Joule (2024)

people are energy poor — no statistical evidence of light from space
能源贫困人口，从太空看不到用电痕迹

people still lack electricity access entirely
完全没有电力接入

connected to power that is unreliable or poor quality
虽已联网，但供电不稳定

nations mapped at settlement level, 2012–2019
覆盖的国家数量

The Missing Link · 缺失的连接

Not always far from light. 距离光明，并不总隔着一座发电站。

The most striking finding from HREA isn't how many people live without power. It's that many energy-poor communities are not far from an existing grid at all. Sometimes what's missing isn't a power plant — it's the last, smallest link.

许多能源贫困社区，并不远离现有电网。有时只隔着一段输电线、一个变压器、一套融资机制、一个投资决定——或一个愿意重新连接资源的系统。

a transmission line · 输电线 a transformer · 变压器 a financing scheme · 融资机制 an investment decision · 投资决定

Link to Good Framework · 四种区域

Not where is poorest — 重点不再是哪里最贫困，而是哪里距离改变最近。

01 · red near blue · 红点距离蓝点很近

Link to Good Priority Zone

最容易产生改变

02 · red / blue interlaced · 红蓝交错区域

Transition Frontier

正在发生转折

03 · blue expanding · 蓝色持续扩张区域

Signals of Progress

文明正在抵达

04 · deep red, long-term · 长期深红区域

Deep Energy Poverty

需要长期系统投资

Reading the Map · 如何读懂地图颜色

Every dot carries a color code. 每一个光点，都带着自己的颜色语言。

Red — energy poor, no light detected from space.
红色 — 能源贫困，太空中检测不到光。

Blue — connected, electrified settlement.
蓝色 — 已联网、已通电的聚落。

Gold — the traveling link, where red meets blue.
金色 — 移动的连接点，红与蓝相遇之处。

A New Responsibility in the AI Era · AI 时代的新责任

Two problems. 从"One Earth"的角度来看，这不是两个问题，这是同一个问题。

Where AI grows fast

AI发展迅速的地方

Korea, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan
rising data-center demand
limited land, limited local clean power

ONE EARTH · ONE PROBLEM

Where the sun and wind wait

阳光与风能丰富的地方

Africa, Central Asia, Mongolia
inland Australia, parts of Latin America
abundant resource, short on capital & infrastructure

One Earth Credit

The most meaningful credit is not merely how much green power I consumed — but how much green power I helped reach a place it could never reach on its own.

也许未来最重要的 Credit，不仅仅是我用了多少绿色电力，而是：我帮助多少绿色电力，抵达了原本凭自身力量永远抵达不了的地方。

If AI is creating new wealth, AI can also help create new connections — letting energy investment reduce not only carbon, but energy poverty too.

如果 AI 正在创造新的财富，那么 AI 也可以帮助创造新的连接，让能源投资不仅减少碳排放，也减少能源贫困。

Closing Line

Future does not always
begin with a breakthrough. 突破有时候，只是始于一个连接。

Sometimes it begins with a connection.

Your effort links to Earth. 🌍

Source & Data · 数据来源

HREA — High Resolution Electricity Access
Settlement-level electricity access, reliability & usage across 89 nations, derived from nightly VIIRS imagery. Temporal extent 2012–2019 · GSD 30m, 460m.
Providers: University of Michigan (producer, licensor) · Microsoft (host, processor) · License: CC BY 4.0
STAC Collection ↗

"Lost in the Dark: A Survey of Energy Poverty from Space"
Brian Min, Zachary P. O'Keeffe, Babatunde Abidoye, Kwawu Mensan Gaba, Trevor Monroe, Benjamin P. Stewart, Kim Baugh, Bruno Sánchez-Andrade Nuño — Joule (2024)
doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2024.05.001 ↗
Press: Vox · Nature · World Bank blog · UNDP blog · Institute for Social Research (University of Michigan)

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From a datasetto a way of seeing. 从一个数据集，走到一个新的世界观。