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AI Infrastructure Observatory

What was promised.
What the public gets.

A plain-language accountability tracker for the physical infrastructure behind AI. See what a project is, what governments and developers say it will deliver, what power, water and public support it may require, and which important questions are still unanswered.

8ALTA leadership

Understand the argument before the database.

Analysis for citizens, policymakers, boards and investors trying to separate AI-infrastructure strategy from investment headlines.

Data-centre strategy for countries: capacity is not the same thing as value

When compute infrastructure creates durable domestic advantage — and when a country mainly exports power, water and tax concessions.

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What makes an AI data centre different from a regular data centre?

Density, accelerators, cooling, grid demand, networking and why AI changes the infrastructure equation.

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The three-year test: what is left after construction crews go home?

Separate temporary capex headlines from recurring payroll, taxes, procurement, compute access and public costs.

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Recent reporting

Three developments worth knowing.

Policy, grid, water, licensing and project developments that materially change the public-interest picture.

Public accountability tracker

Start with the questions that matter.

We no longer score projects by how many fields happen to be public. Each card tells you the project's maturity, its scale, the public-value question, and the specific questions citizens should be able to put to governments and developers.

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How projects are ordered: projects with the biggest unresolved public-interest questions appear first by default — especially large or public-supported proposals where recurring local benefit, resource burden or financing is unclear. This is a scrutiny order, not a claim that a project is bad.
ProjectStatusCapacityLand / WaterCapital / SupportClaim vs durable benefitGradeRecord