Compute Governance
Concept
Governance & Policy
Regulating AI by regulating FLOPs, chips and data centers.
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Because frontier AI needs identifiable, exportable, meterable hardware, compute is the most governable input: training-compute thresholds (10²⁵ FLOP in the EU Act), chip export licensing, know-your-customer rules for clouds, and proposals for on-chip attestation. Its premise — that capability tracks compute — is exactly what efficiency results like DeepSeek's keep stress-testing.
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Record reviewed as of 2026-01-15 — see Methodology.