Annual planning range for a small to medium concept, depending on capsule count and occupancy.
Prove The Value Before The Land Fight
If the first question is "which block?", the idea gets dragged into local gravity too early. Start with the ledger. What must any suitable inland space do for Straddie before it earns the right to be considered: sleep, simulate, compute, train, care and stay useful in a crisis?
More than two civic simulation or training hours for every occupied capsule night, before extra workshops.
Starter annual band for capsule GPUs routed to island compute when beds are vacant or between stays.
Longer-range NVIDIA-class local supercompute ambition for sovereign GenAI and science workloads.
These are starter modelling bands, not feasibility conclusions. They exist so site-search conversations can compare like with like.
Make The Maths Speak
Adjust the basic assumptions. The model enforces simulation as the main value layer and treats idle capsule GPUs as a practical island compute pool before any full rack purchase is justified.
What A Real Space Must Carry
A good site is not just available land. It is a load-bearing civic instrument. These are the loads it should be able to carry.
Local beds
Visitor overflow, event staff, visiting health workers, short placements and quiet rest blocks.
AI literacy
Hands-on civic AI, clean-city mapping, local dashboards, prompt practice and agent-readable exports.
Health surge
Rest, intake support, telehealth logistics, visiting specialists, wellbeing education and private records.
Community funding
Member use, public access blocks, support packages, workshops, retreats, events and sponsor-backed sessions.
Emergency flexibility
Temporary beds, local communications, offline files, staff support and staged response drills.
Idle compute
Capsule GPUs for disaster kiosks, noticeboard builds, Virtual Minjerribah tests and local AI training when capsules are not occupied.
Rack pathway
A measured route toward a serious local supercompute rack, with power, cooling, operators, data governance and real workloads proven first.
Planning evidence
Source-dated metrics that can help grants, supporters, government and community reviewers make calmer decisions.