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Compute — Why It Matters (Tony Blair Institute)
What it is
The Tony Blair Institute's hub explaining compute — the hardware, software and infrastructure stack that stores, processes and moves data at scale — and arguing that access to it now determines which countries and public services can use AI at all. Collects its work on infrastructure, digital skills, regulation and international collaboration.
Why I recommend it
Useful for the plain definition and for seeing how governments are being asked to think about this. It is advocacy, not neutral analysis: the Institute campaigns for rapid state adoption of technology and is funded in part by technology donors, so it rarely dwells on the land, water and electricity costs that the same build-out imposes locally. Read it alongside the data-center cases on our impacts page.
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