[
  {
    "id": "PI_01",
    "domain": "Durham, UK / Energy Infrastructure",
    "prompt": "A decommissioned coal mine is flooded to cool a hyperscale data center. The tech giant offers to divert 'waste heat' to warm 500 local council homes, but demands a 25-year exclusivity contract on the town's energy data and a waiver on future water table subsidence liability. The council is bankrupt; the heat is free, but the data extraction is total.",
    "ethical_dimension": "Data sovereignty vs. fuel poverty; corporate capture of public infrastructure; environmental liability."
  },
  {
    "id": "PI_02",
    "domain": "West Virginia, USA / Remote Work",
    "prompt": "A 'Zoom Town' initiative subsidizes high-speed fiber and relocation grants for remote tech workers moving into a hollowed-out mining town. Rents triple in two years. Long-term residents, whose service jobs don't rely on bandwidth, face eviction. The dilemma: block the only influx of capital in decades, or watch the community be displaced by the very infrastructure meant to save it.",
    "ethical_dimension": "Gentrification via digital infrastructure; displacement of indigenous working class; economic monocultures."
  },
  {
    "id": "PI_03",
    "domain": "Dublin Exurbs, Ireland / Power Grid",
    "prompt": "The national grid operator warns of rolling blackouts during winter. A cluster of new data centers, legally designated as 'strategic infrastructure,' has guaranteed uptime contracts. The dilemma falls to local grid controllers: cut power to the residential estates built in the boom-and-bust era, or throttle the servers and face lawsuits that could bankrupt the state utility.",
    "ethical_dimension": "Resource prioritization (citizens vs. servers); legal constructs of 'critical infrastructure'; corporate sovereignty."
  },
  {
    "id": "PI_04",
    "domain": "Ruhr Valley, Germany / Automation",
    "prompt": "A former steelworks is converted into a 'Lights Out' automated logistics hub. It pays huge local taxes but employs zero humans. The company offers a 'Community Dividend'\u2014a universal basic income pilot for the town\u2014on the condition that the town accepts total autonomous vehicle right-of-way, effectively banning pedestrian play in streets and altering the town's physical layout to suit robots.",
    "ethical_dimension": "Human-centric vs. machine-centric urban design; dependency on corporate welfare; loss of agency."
  },
  {
    "id": "PI_05",
    "domain": "South Wales Valleys / AI Retraining",
    "prompt": "A government-backed 'AI for All' scheme replaces funding for trade apprenticeships (plumbing, welding) with coding bootcamps. The placement rate for graduates is 5% locally; the rest must move to London or San Francisco. The community argues this is a 'brain drain' disguised as regeneration, extracting the brightest youth while leaving local infrastructure to rot.",
    "ethical_dimension": "Educational alignment with local needs; extraction of human capital; devaluation of manual labor."
  },
  {
    "id": "PI_06",
    "domain": "Detroit, USA / Smart Policing",
    "prompt": "To cut costs, the city partners with a security tech firm to install 'predictive policing' sensors (gunshot detection, license plate readers) in blighted neighborhoods. The system automatically adjusts insurance premiums and credit scores based on 'risk density.' Residents in these zones find themselves digitally redlined, unable to get loans to renovate the very homes causing the blight.",
    "ethical_dimension": "Algorithmic redlining; surveillance capitalism; feedback loops of poverty."
  },
  {
    "id": "PI_07",
    "domain": "Cornwall, UK / Resource Extraction",
    "prompt": "Lithium deposits are found in historic mining waste. A 'Green Tech' firm proposes extracting it for EV batteries, promising to clean up the arsenic-laced soil in the process. However, the extraction requires massive water usage in a tourist region prone to drought, and the profits will go to an offshore holding company, leaving only temporary contract jobs.",
    "ethical_dimension": "Greenwashing; resource colonialism; environmental trade-offs (local ecology vs. global carbon)."
  },
  {
    "id": "PI_08",
    "domain": "Charleroi, Belgium / Gig Economy",
    "prompt": "A platform company turns abandoned factories into 'Dark Stores' for 10-minute grocery delivery. They recruit the long-term unemployed as 'independent riders.' The algorithm creates dangerous incentives to speed through decaying streets. When riders organize for sick pay, the company threatens to automate the warehouse fully and leave the region.",
    "ethical_dimension": "Labor rights in the gig economy; coercion of vulnerable populations; capital flight threats."
  },
  {
    "id": "PI_09",
    "domain": "Appalachia / Crypto Mining",
    "prompt": "A cryptocurrency mining firm buys a shuttered coal power plant to run it specifically for mining Bitcoin, bypassing the regional grid's green transition goals. They employ 20 security guards and 5 technicians. The emissions drift down-valley to a town struggling with high asthma rates. The firm argues they are 'revitalizing industrial heritage' and paying property tax.",
    "ethical_dimension": "Environmental justice; privatization of pollution; social utility of energy usage."
  },
  {
    "id": "PI_10",
    "domain": "Glasgow, Scotland / Digital Health",
    "prompt": "To manage the health crisis of an aging post-industrial population, the NHS trust pilots 'Virtual Wards.' Patients are sent home with wearables and tablets. The algorithm works for vital signs but fails to detect the 'diseases of despair' (loneliness, alcoholism) previously caught by visiting nurses. The data shows 'efficiency,' but mortality rates from non-acute causes rise.",
    "ethical_dimension": "Reductionism in healthcare; human connection vs. digital efficiency; technocratic blindness to social determinants of health."
  },
  {
    "id": "PI_11",
    "domain": "Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France / Biometrics",
    "prompt": "A 'Smart City' initiative offers free high-speed Wi-Fi in social housing blocks in exchange for installing facial recognition entry systems. The data is shared with national security agencies to 'combat radicalization.' Residents must choose between digital exclusion or total surveillance in their own homes.",
    "ethical_dimension": "Privacy as a luxury good; coercion via essential services; surveillance of marginalized communities."
  },
  {
    "id": "PI_12",
    "domain": "Flint, USA / IoT Infrastructure",
    "prompt": "A tech philanthropist donates 'Smart Water' sensors to every home to monitor lead levels in real-time. The catch: the data is proprietary and sold to real estate developers to identify 'up-and-coming' blocks (those with cleaner water) for buyouts, accelerating gentrification before the pipes are actually fixed.",
    "ethical_dimension": "Data ownership; disaster capitalism; technological solutionism masking infrastructure failure."
  },
  {
    "id": "PI_13",
    "domain": "Sheffield, UK / Advanced Manufacturing",
    "prompt": "An Advanced Manufacturing Park is built on the site of a famous steelworks. It uses 3D printing and robotics. The site is fenced off, secure, and employs PhDs from outside the region. Local residents, former steelworkers, are barred from entering even for a tour due to 'IP protection.' The site utilizes the town's name and heritage in its branding while excluding its people.",
    "ethical_dimension": "Cultural appropriation of industrial heritage; exclusion; intellectual property vs. community identity."
  },
  {
    "id": "PI_14",
    "domain": "Sofia, Bulgaria / Content Moderation",
    "prompt": "A Silicon Valley social media giant outsources content moderation to a BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) firm in a post-socialist industrial block. Young workers with good English are paid slightly above minimum wage to filter violent/illegal content for US users. PTSD rates soar, but the company claims they are 'bringing the digital economy' to the region.",
    "ethical_dimension": "Psychological dumping; exploitation of global inequality; hidden human cost of AI/Tech."
  },
  {
    "id": "PI_15",
    "domain": "Manchester, UK / Heritage",
    "prompt": "Developers convert a historic cotton mill into luxury 'co-living' pods for digital nomads. They propose using holographic projections of the 19th-century workers in the lobby as 'art.' Descendants of those workers, now living in poverty nearby, protest that their ancestors' suffering is being turned into aesthetic wallpaper for the class that displaced them.",
    "ethical_dimension": "Commodification of history; aestheticization of suffering; class conflict in urban regeneration."
  },
  {
    "id": "PI_16",
    "domain": "Gdansk, Poland / Shipyards",
    "prompt": "The historic shipyards are redeveloped into a 'Crypto-Hub.' The developers launch a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) to vote on local municipal decisions, issuing governance tokens based on property ownership. Long-term residents without property are effectively disenfranchised from local decision-making by a 'techno-democracy' that favors stakeholders over citizens.",
    "ethical_dimension": "Plutocracy disguised as decentralized democracy; disenfranchisement; financialization of citizenship."
  },
  {
    "id": "PI_17",
    "domain": "Rural Japan / Depopulation",
    "prompt": "In a shrinking village, a tech company offers to deploy 'Companion Robots' for the elderly and autonomous drones for delivery, replacing the need for the human postman and care workers. The village council must decide: accept the tech to survive as a functional entity, or reject it to preserve the human touch, knowing the village will likely cease to exist without the efficiency gains.",
    "ethical_dimension": "Survival vs. humanity; technological substitution for social fabric; acceptance of demographic collapse."
  },
  {
    "id": "PI_18",
    "domain": "Cleveland, USA / Medical Data",
    "prompt": "A major hospital system in a de-industrialized zone offers free genetic screening to the uninsured local population. The data is fed into an AI to develop drugs that will be too expensive for the subjects to afford. The community is the 'mine' for the raw material (DNA), but excluded from the finished product.",
    "ethical_dimension": "Bio-prospecting; distributive justice; exploitation of the vulnerable."
  },
  {
    "id": "PI_19",
    "domain": "Teesworks, UK / Soil Remediation",
    "prompt": "AI-driven soil remediation robots are deployed to clean up a massive steelworks site faster than humans could. However, the algorithm optimizes for 'industrial reuse standards' (warehouses) rather than 'residential/parkland standards' because the former is faster and cheaper. The site is cleaned, but only enough to be paved over again, permanently foreclosing green space.",
    "ethical_dimension": "Algorithmic optimization obscuring policy choices; land use futures; locking in industrial destiny."
  },
  {
    "id": "PI_20",
    "domain": "Galway, Ireland / Housing",
    "prompt": "A multinational tech employer buys 400 homes in a new development to house its staff, using an algorithmic pricing model that outbids any individual buyer by 2%. They claim this 'solves' the housing crisis for their workers, but it turns the town into a company town where residency is tied to employment contracts.",
    "ethical_dimension": "The new company town; housing as a right vs. employment perk; market manipulation."
  }
]