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Explore projects, places and technology
Find a project or place, understand what it depends on, and follow the questions that matter to you.
Find a project
Search facility and project records, then check the recorded stage and sources.
Explore projects →Explore a place
Follow recorded infrastructure, policy and access routes in a country or territory.
Choose a place →Understand the technology
Explore chips, systems, cooling, power and the connections between them.
Explore the supply chain →Understand a proposal
Take useful questions about evidence and local consequences into your next meeting.
Read the community guide →Go deeper
- What does the evidence establish about progress towards usable compute? A briefing and three supporting project files.
- What is recorded about a place? Country profiles, alongside the policy register, site records and map and table.
- How can I scrutinise a local proposal? Shared questions about evidence, participation, dependencies and commitments.
- How can I get access? Providers, programmes and questions to ask before applying or buying.
From need to afterlife
Capital, workforce, governance, community agency and environmental consequences run across these stages. Expansion, better use of existing assets, repair and retirement each deserve scrutiny.
| Stage | Question | Starting points | Coverage limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Need and alternatives | What outcome needs compute, and what could meet it? | Start with the workload · Inspect research and its limits | Demand forecasts and useful outcomes need their own evidence. |
| Research and design | Which technologies, software and standards shape the options? | Technology and supply · Standards · Research | Selected references, rather than a complete research or software catalogue. |
| Materials and manufacture | What inputs and manufacturing dependencies matter? | Chips, systems and facility inputs | Upstream materials and manufacturing coverage need further depth. |
| Land, capital and permissions | What is proposed, who is involved and what remains conditional? | Read the project evidence briefing · Finance questions · Policy evidence | Project-specific agreements and financing are established only where cited. |
| Power, water and networks | Which connections and local resources govern delivery? | Large-load grid rules · Power, cooling and connectivity · Local evidence questions | A general rule does not establish a particular project connection or local effect. |
| Build and commission | What supports the recorded stage, and which phase does it describe? | Find a sourced record · Explore the map and accessible table | Source records can describe projects, facilities or systems; they are not a census of unique facilities. |
| Access and allocation | Who can use the resource, on what terms and through which route? | Find a route to compute · Free and funded routes | A listing does not establish current eligibility, an allocation or available capacity. |
| Operate and maintain | What makes the service usable, reliable and supportable? | Services and practical questions · Standards and evidence · Provider records | Live reliability, utilisation and service performance are not measured by this index. |
| Use and improve | What useful outcome results, and can existing resources meet it better? | Research context · Tools and assumptions · Economics and who pays | Installed capacity, spending and efficiency claims do not by themselves establish a useful outcome. |
| Repair, upgrade and reuse | Could equipment or a site stay useful through repair or a different use? | Reviewed JRC component-reuse guidance · Service questions | Historical guidance describes component harvesting/testing and firmware/data-erasure constraints. Certified refurbishment, secondary-GPU brokerage and completed reuse outcomes remain unassessed. |
| Retire, recover and restore | What happens to data, equipment, materials, sites and continuing obligations? | Operator-reported ASPIRE 1 system retirement · Reviewed grid-span removal and cleanup conditions · Questions for a place | NSCC reports retirement of the named ASPIRE 1 system on 31 August 2023. That is separate from recovery, disposal, building/site closure or restoration. The named NVE grid-asset obligation is starting evidence only; completed removal, compliance, bonds and stranded-asset liability remain unestablished. |
Follow the evidence
Read what is changing, inspect the recorded-field coverage, or reuse data with its source conditions. Stage, source date, publication date and review date describe different things. Missing evidence does not establish absence.
See the method, source and licence limits and correction route.