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A Fair Go in the Age of Superintelligence

Evidence assumptions and reproducible methods

Inspect the dated sources, the calculation boundaries and the relationships between the projects.

AI-generated concept image · 7 November 2026 · Image credits and prompt

Research and default assumptions dated

Power allocation comes before deployment

Reserve new clean electricity for fossil replacement, essential development and replacement of retired clean supply. The remaining annual energy can support additional compute and robots. The model reports gaps in both protected allocations and new project supply. It does not assume UN Sustainable Development Goals or clean-energy transition targets give way to machines.

Annual energy is a first check. Dependable delivery needs hourly demand, weather, storage power and duration, network limits and outages. The repeated-day solar illustration tests a simplified day; it is not a weather or grid reliability model. Storage losses are charged at the source. Storage is not counted as generation.

Units and boundaries

One gigawatt sustained for a year supplies 8.76 terawatt-hours. Rated compute is multiplied by its average operating load and facility power factor before conversion to electricity. The 485 terawatt-hour baseline already includes facility overhead. An electricity forecast is never multiplied by that overhead a second time.

Annual new machines, accumulated manufacture and machines still operating are separate quantities. Final losses are applied to cohorts. Service parts keep retained structures productive. The scenario does not retire a complete robot or rack on a fixed five-year schedule.

External factory feed equals finished material divided by net yield after internal scrap reuse. The primary share requires new extraction; the secondary share requires qualified and allocated material. Chemical formulae convert compound grade to elemental grade once. Primary aluminium, recycled aluminium, end-use demand and installed smelter capacity remain separate series.

Substitution and discovery

Enter an alternative cathode or photovoltaic absorber formula, its capacity or conversion performance, density and thickness. The calculator finds the atomic material fractions. That calculation sizes a chosen design. It does not establish a synthesis route, durability or accepted factory output.

Extreme Matter Atlas supplies a path from elements to GNoME, crystals and metamaterials. Its dataset includes estimated properties. The formula engine here uses tabulated atomic masses. Research can change the material or performance assumptions as measurements become available.

Market demand and added project inventories

The default copper path uses S and P Global's January 2026 figures of 28, 33, 38 and 42 million tonnes in 2025, 2030, 2035 and 2040. The main four-sector forecast treats humanoid manufacturing separately. Aluminium uses McKinsey's July 2025 end-use path of 106 million tonnes in 2025 and 130 million in 2035, with its own supply mix described in the paper.

The calculator adds the selected robot batch after subtracting any entered allowance already embedded in the market outlook. Faster data-centre, orbital or generation programmes need their own project inventories and replacement of the relevant market sector allowance. The project ledger helps build that inventory. It should not be added wholesale to a forecast already counting the same equipment.

Explore the changing years

The calculator opens at 2026 and initially plots every year through 2036. Move the year slider, use the planning-horizon buttons or select a point on an annual graph. The chart end can extend to 2040. Selected-year readings, year-by-year tables and CSV downloads use the same calculation engine. Pin current assumptions before changing an input to compare annual paths.

The power plan has a separate completion year. Its additional generation accumulates from zero above the 2025 base using the entered annual construction multiplier, reaches the entered capacities at the plan year and then holds. Protected annual allocations grow linearly to that same year and then hold. These editable paths are scenario assumptions dated 7 November 2026. They are not measured annual additions. Existing 2025 compute electricity remains in the demand base.

The manufacturing programme starts in the entered first production year. Earlier views contain no units from that programme. Population is interpolated at a constant compound rate between June 2025 and the entered population plan year, then extrapolated at that rate. Civic fleet figures size a service requirement. Engineering curves show the current storage, feedstock, orbital or project design inputs; annual topics show the time paths.

Your scenario stays with you

All calculations run in this browser. This site has no account system, analytics or model API. A tab-local scenario carries settings between pages. Download JSON to retain every input, download CSV for results, or copy a link that includes the scenario. Anyone receiving that link can read its inputs. Reset returns to the dated default scenario.

Dates and reproducibility

The research and default assumptions are dated 7 November 2026. Source publication dates appear in the register below. Company targets and proposed rollouts retain their status as dated intentions. Formulas are visible beside the results. The public repository includes automated tests for dimensional conversions, mass balance, survival and protected power allocation.

Project links and credits

Created for Luke Nathan Hayes with Codex. The element dataset is adapted from Extreme Matter Atlas by Luke Nathan Hayes, Strange But True and Aura of Intelligence, an original Luke and Claude project. It is used under its Strange But True Public Source Licence. The site and adapted data retain public source licensing with commercial rights reserved to the author.

Where these projects meet

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