Compute, or computational power, has emerged as a fundamental currency
of AI technologies, shaping not only the technical capabilities of AI
systems and who is able to build them, but also the competitive dynamics
and strategic landscape of the AI sector. As AI models grow increasingly
sophisticated, access to and control of large-scale compute resources
have become critical determinants of research progress, commercial
success and ultimately who can participate in AI development.
This report focuses on ‘public compute’, which we define loosely as
initiatives which use government funds to provide particular groups with
access to compute resources. This can take a variety of forms, from the
provision of hardware (for example, graphics processing units or GPUs)
or vouchers for accessing private cloud services, to direct access to
public supercomputing projects operated by government or state-funded
entities.
The announcement of the multibillion-dollar Stargate Project for data
centre investment in the US, the publication of the AI Opportunities
Action Plan in the UK, and live debate over the effect of the DeepSeek
R1 model on future compute demand all speak to the urgency of better
understanding the impact of compute availability. With increasing calls
for ‘public’ alternatives to corporate infrastructure at all levels of
the ‘AI stack’, compute – as a central input for modern AI development –
is necessarily part of this picture. At the centre of this debate is how
we can evaluate the extent to which different approaches result in
broader public benefit, a key concern of this month’s AI Action Summit
in Paris.
This report summarises the findings of a research project carried out by
the Ada Lovelace Institute (Ada), with the support of the Mozilla
Foundation. Based on interviews with policymakers and experts across
multiple jurisdictions, we map existing public compute initiatives and
provide recommendations for policymakers looking to scope and implement
such policies.
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Prof. Enrico Nardelli
Past President di "Informatics Europe"
Direttore del Laboratorio Nazionale "Informatica e Scuola" del CINI
Dipartimento di Matematica - Università di Roma "Tor Vergata"
Via della Ricerca Scientifica snc - 00133 Roma
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