normative claim
Present actors owe future persons a non-foreclosed option set on water, extractive resources, and institutional governance. Compute expansion that forecloses future options --- depleted aquifers, exhausted mine-sites, locked-in vendor stacks --- fails a categorical duty even if it passes a consequentialist cost-benefit test.
kantian norm_future_generations_duty
Axiom detail
Kantian universalizability extended to future persons. The duty is categorical, not contingent on expected-value calculations about how future people will benefit or suffer from today's compute buildout.