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Infrastructure And Environment

Compute, chips, datacenters, energy, robotics, supply chains, and physical constraints.

26 chapters · 87 lessons · 116 structured sources. Source types include government export-control document, research paper, technical report, government export-control release.

3 direct Practice Lab projects use Project spec, Compute budget note.

Learner pathways

• I want frontier updates

Practice

• Plan a local-model experiment · Project spec · 30 minutes
• Estimate inference deployment tradeoffs · Project spec · 30 minutes
• Create a compute budget note · Compute budget note · 30 minutes

Chapters

• Open-weights training infrastructure
  Building with AI · Fine-tuning & post-training · 3 lessons
• What physical AI means in 2027
  Frontiers · World models and embodied AI · 3 lessons
• GPUs as the dominant accelerator
  The Physical Stack of AI · Chips and accelerators · 4 lessons
• NVIDIA roadmap — Blackwell, Rubin, what next
  The Physical Stack of AI · Chips and accelerators · 4 lessons
• The challengers — AMD, TPU, Trainium
  The Physical Stack of AI · Chips and accelerators · 4 lessons
• Specialist inference chips
  The Physical Stack of AI · Chips and accelerators · 3 lessons
• How a chip gets made
  The Physical Stack of AI · Fab and packaging supply chain · 3 lessons
• The CoWoS bottleneck
  The Physical Stack of AI · Fab and packaging supply chain · 3 lessons
• HBM — the binding memory constraint
  The Physical Stack of AI · Fab and packaging supply chain · 3 lessons
• Chip geopolitics — export controls and diffusion
  The Physical Stack of AI · Fab and packaging supply chain · 4 lessons
• What a hyperscale AI datacenter looks like
  The Physical Stack of AI · Datacenters and gigawatt campuses · 3 lessons
• Stargate — the $500B project
  The Physical Stack of AI · Datacenters and gigawatt campuses · 4 lessons
• Hyperion, Colossus, Project Rainier, Stargate UAE
  The Physical Stack of AI · Datacenters and gigawatt campuses · 4 lessons
• Cooling, water, and local pushback
  The Physical Stack of AI · Datacenters and gigawatt campuses · 3 lessons
• AI energy demand projections
  The Physical Stack of AI · Energy and grid · 3 lessons
• The nuclear-AI nexus
  The Physical Stack of AI · Energy and grid · 4 lessons
• Grid limits and siting politics
  The Physical Stack of AI · Energy and grid · 3 lessons
• Power-purchase agreements explained
  The Physical Stack of AI · Energy and grid · 3 lessons
• Why every country wants its own compute
  The Physical Stack of AI · Sovereign AI compute · 3 lessons
• Europe — UK Isambard, France Jules Verne
  The Physical Stack of AI · Sovereign AI compute · 3 lessons
• Stargate UAE, Saudi PIF, IndiaAI Mission
  The Physical Stack of AI · Sovereign AI compute · 4 lessons
• China and chip sovereignty
  The Physical Stack of AI · Sovereign AI compute · 3 lessons
• Cost per million tokens — the unit economics
  The Physical Stack of AI · The inference economy · 4 lessons
• Why Opus dropped 67% in February 2026
  The Physical Stack of AI · The inference economy · 3 lessons
• Neoclouds vs hyperscalers
  The Physical Stack of AI · The inference economy · 3 lessons
• Intelligence too cheap to meter — fact vs reality
  The Physical Stack of AI · The inference economy · 3 lessons