National AI compute ISL

The National AI Compute Index measures the amount of reliable, affordable, accessible, and strategically controlled AI-processing capacity available to a country's startups, researchers, enterprises, and public institutions.

Country

Effective AI compute

per 2023 data

Raw AI compute	Hardware capacity: accelerators, clusters, data centres	20.0
Enablement	Share of raw capacity that is actually usable	38.1%
Effective AI compute	Raw × enablement · Minimal	7.6

Enablement axes

do the chips become usable national capacity

Axis	What it asks	Score
Accessible	Cloud access and who may use it	8.8
Affordable	Cost relative to local ability to pay	100.0
Reliable	Power, uptime, and supply continuity	70.0
Strategically controlled	Sovereign control of the stack	20.0
Talent	People to build and operate it	50.0
Software	Stack and developer ecosystem	50.0

Inputs

capacity inputs estimated from development tier

AI accelerator / cluster tier (0–3)	0
Data-center tier (0–3)	2
Hyperscaler cloud regions	1
National compute programme	no
Supply-continuity tier (1 best–3 restricted)	2
Strategic-control tier (0 foreign–3 sovereign)	0
Talent tier (0–3)	1
Software-stack tier (0–3)	1
GNI per capita, PPP	$79,290
Access to electricity (%)	100.0

How this is computed

AI compute is not chips alone; it is the practical ability to turn electricity, data, hardware, software, and talent into training and inference capacity. So the index measures two levels. Raw AI compute is the hardware that physically exists, accelerators, clusters, and data centres. Effective AI compute is that raw capacity conditioned by whether it can actually be used: accessible, affordable, reliable, strategically controlled, with talent and software. Effective equals raw times enablement, so idle or unusable hardware scores low. Income and electricity are live World Bank data; capacity, supply, control, talent, and software inputs are curated and openly listed, estimated from development tier where a country is not yet curated, and overridable by an authorised administrator. Separate from the Optional Work Index.