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RESEARCH AGENDA / 2027–2030

The next questions are larger than one rating.

The agenda describes intended research directions and milestones. It is a plan, not a claim that the outputs or geographic coverage already exist.

MISSION 01

Measure compute.

How can chips, hardware and workloads share one reproducible physical measurement chain?

Develop common measurement and allocation rules from telemetry and manufacturing evidence to workload energy and useful compute.

Compute Measurement Protocol 1.0Benchmark registry with versioned assumptionsReproducible workload evidence records
MISSION 02

Measure the full physical footprint.

What remains when electricity becomes cleaner?

Measure lifecycle carbon, semiconductor manufacturing, cooling, water, land, infrastructure and community exposure rather than reducing compute impact to electricity alone.

Carbon of Compute research programmeCL-SCM semiconductor methodIntegrated impact boundary
MISSION 03

Measure places.

How much compute can different places carry, and what binds first?

Build public place assessments with explicit grid zones, watersheds, time boundaries, evidence quality and comparable scenarios.

2027 objective / first evidence-complete pilot assessments2028 objective / comparative major-region research2029–2030 objective / longitudinal observatory coverage, subject to evidence quality
MISSION 04

Turn evidence into decisions.

Where should compute be built, how much, under what conditions, and at what local cost?

Translate measurement into capacity envelopes, impact deltas, mitigation conditions, rejected alternatives and public decision records.

Critical Load Method 1.0Place Assessment standardScenario + Decision Record
02 / Institutional horizon

What success would create.

The intended public infrastructure is a common method, open evidence records, reproducible research, comparable place assessments and a body of decision evidence that can be used by governments, infrastructure operators, investors and communities.

2027
Method + pilots. Stabilize measurement rules and release first evidence-complete place work without forcing premature ratings.
2028
Comparison. Expand only where source quality supports meaningful cross-place comparison and independent review.
2029–30
Public infrastructure. Move from isolated assessments toward longitudinal datasets, revisions and a durable compute-capacity observatory.