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. continua qua https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/report/computing-commons/ -- -- EN https://www.hoepli.it/libro/la-rivoluzione-informatica/9788896069516.html ====================================================== 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 home page: https://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~nardelli blog: https://link-and-think.blogspot.it/ tel: +39 06 7259.4204 fax: +39 06 7259.4699 mobile: +39 335 590.2331 e-mail: nardelli@mat.uniroma2.it online meeting: https://blue.meet.garr.it/b/enr-y7f-t0q-ont ====================================================== --
