Capability and compute
Model training access, cloud concentration, data centers, energy limits, and deployment leverage.
Coverage
The scope is narrower than “AI” and stronger because of it.
Compute Statecraft is built for the part of AI that changes power: compute access, advanced chips, capital deployment, coalition behavior, standards, and state action. That scope is explicit so readers know what to expect and what not to expect.
Chips and supply chains
Advanced semiconductors, packaging, interconnects, foundry capacity, export controls, and chokepoints.
Capital and procurement
Subsidies, capex cycles, procurement, venture pressure, and state-backed investment signals.
Coalitions and standards
Allied controls, regulatory alignment, standards bodies, enforcement coordination, and diplomatic blocs.
Typical questions this site is built to answer
- Which actors control the compute, chip, capital, or coalition levers in an AI story?
- What is directly sourced, what is inferred, and what remains speculative?
- Which policy, supply-chain, or procurement shifts could change the balance of capability?
- Which dossiers and earlier Maps provide the most reliable context for a new development?
Usually in scope
- Export controls, industrial policy, and enforcement coordination.
- Data center buildouts, energy constraints, and cloud concentration.
- AI labs and model releases when they materially affect capability competition or state response.
- Organizations and people whose positions measurably shape AI power or regulation.
Usually out of scope
- General consumer-AI product news with no statecraft, compute, or capital angle.
- Opinion-only debates that lack source-backed claims or a clear policy lever.
- Thin recap pages that duplicate a canonical Map or Dossier.
- Broad hype cycles that cannot be grounded in documents, actors, incentives, or infrastructure.