SPARSE COMMUNITY DATA CENTRES
COMMUNITY AI. OWNED LOCALLY.
A deployable community data centre bringing local AI compute, resilient digital infrastructure, skills and community value closer to the people who use it.
Four principles
LOCAL COMPUTE
AI inference and community workloads at the edge.
LOCAL DATA
Local-first processing with controlled and auditable egress.
LOCAL SKILLS
Training, placements and STEM engagement built into delivery.
LOCAL VALUE
Community-owned infrastructure and evidenced social value.
CEAC cutaway
Interactive technical view of a 20ft Community Edge AI Container.
Why Community Edge?
Remote hyperscale dependency concentrates compute, skills and value far from the places that rely on digital services. Community Edge brings resilient local services, low latency pathways and community ownership into a deployable asset — without unsupported claims about hyperscale systems.
Community Edge
- Local AI compute and storage
- Household access network designed for the community
- Auditable carbon and social-value evidence
- Community governance pathways
Remote Hyperscale Dependency
- Workloads and data leave the locality by default
- Skills and economic value concentrate remotely
- Limited community control of infrastructure
- Opaque external dependencies for resilience
SHARED ASSET
100 HOUSEHOLDS
ONE SHARED DIGITAL ASSET
Baseline planning uses a 100-household CEAC brief estimate. Outputs remain INDICATIVE until a project quotation exists.
AI
Local inference capacity for community workloads.
Network
WAN/backhaul and household access modelled separately.
Energy
PV, battery, UPS and grid pathways with provenance.
Resilience
Deployable containerised edge with commissioning gates.
Carbon
Measured and modelled indicators with baseline control.
Social Value
Opportunities, commitments and evidenced delivery.
Education
STEM engagement, training and placements.
Community ownership
Local governance of a shared digital asset.
Design your community node
Use the Scenario Lab to explore indicative CapEx, OpEx and household contributions.
Open configurator