A public measurement institution for compute and place.
Critical Load is an independent research initiative focused on how much compute a place can carry, what additional compute changes locally, and how those results should inform infrastructure decisions.
Our objective is not to label compute “green.” It is to make compute capacity, lifecycle impact and local consequences measurable enough to be challenged and used.
Independence
Funding must not buy a research result or rating.
Transparency
Method, boundaries, evidence class and limitations accompany published results.
Comparability
Common units and versioned records allow places and workloads to be compared.
Challenge
Published methods are designed to be reproduced, tested, corrected and revised.
We disclose the institution we have, not the institution we hope to look like.
The working release does not claim a board, peer-review system, charity status or completed place ratings that have not yet been established. Formal governance and external review are built alongside the research.
Working research initiative
Programme structure, working methods, named team responsibilities and versioned research outputs are public.
Formal scientific governance
Board and scientific-advisory structures will be published only after appointments are accepted and conflicts are disclosed.