SPONSOR COMMUNITY AI INFRASTRUCTURE

Sponsor the distributed edge of the UK's AI infrastructure.

CEAC is a community-scale AI infrastructure model designed to bring suitable compute, storage, connectivity and resilient digital services closer to where they are used.

A Generation-1 CEAC is designed around approximately 100 households. Organisations can sponsor a complete CEAC, a defined infrastructure system, or specific community programmes — with agreed outcomes tracked from commitment through delivery, evidence and verification.

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SPONSORSHIP TYPES

Choose how you participate.

CEAC Unit Sponsor

Best for: Organisations wanting a substantial place-based infrastructure and Social Value programme.

· Container / infrastructure
· Compute
· Connectivity
· Energy
· Storage
· Security
· Deployment
· Community programme

Data Centre Industry Partner

Help build the distributed edge of the data-centre ecosystem.

Best for: Operators exploring a complementary distributed layer for suitable inference, local storage, retrieval and locality-sensitive workloads — not a replacement for hyperscale.

· Community infrastructure
· Local skills
· Apprenticeships
· School / college engagement
· Local supply chains
· Environmental outcomes
· Industry community engagement

Infrastructure Partner

Best for: Technology partners funding a defined CEAC system.

· AI compute
· Storage
· Connectivity
· Energy
· Battery / storage
· Cooling
· Security

Community Impact Partner

Best for: Programme sponsors focused on people and place outcomes.

· Apprenticeships
· Technical training
· Work placements
· School / college engagement
· AI literacy
· Digital inclusion
· Local business / VCSE support
· Environmental projects

Network Partner

Best for: Portfolio, regional or national partnership across multiple CEAC deployments.

· Multi-site programme
· Regional rollout
· National partnership

Industry & Strategic Partner

Best for: Industry bodies, DNOs, energy networks, telecom operators, councils, universities and research organisations.

· Demonstrator partnerships
· Deployment programmes
· Research
· Member introductions
· Site identification
· Skills programmes
· Methodology validation

Hyperscale where concentration is necessary. Distributed infrastructure where it is not. CEAC is not intended to replace large data centres or substitute for training / frontier compute.

DATA CENTRE & STRATEGIC PARTNERS

A complementary response to constrained infrastructure.

AI demand is growing while access to power, grid connections and large infrastructure delivery remain important constraints on data-centre growth.

CEAC explores a complementary architecture: placing suitable workloads closer to communities rather than requiring every workload to be concentrated in large central facilities. The aim is not to replace hyperscale infrastructure. It is to help identify where distributed capacity can complement it.

No quantified grid-capacity saving is published until independently derived.

Discuss an industry partnership

SOCIAL VALUE

Measure the impact, not just the sponsorship.

Each sponsorship begins with agreed outcomes. The CEAC platform distinguishes between:

1OPPORTUNITY
2COMMITMENT
3DELIVERED
4EVIDENCED
5VERIFIED

The objective is not to create the largest possible Social Value number. It is to create the most defensible account of what the project actually delivered.

How impact is measured →

SPONSOR IMPACT ESTIMATOR

What could your sponsorship deliver?

Model how a sponsorship contribution could translate into programme outcomes and indicative Social Value — using delivery-cost assumptions and server-side TOMs valuation. Results are OPPORTUNITY estimates, not delivered Social Value.

Infrastructure funding is reported separately and is not automatically monetised as Social Value. There is no universal pounds-to-Social-Value multiplier.

Open the £1,000 estimator Try £10,000 and custom mix

This is a planning estimate, not delivered Social Value. Actual results are reported separately as committed, delivered, evidenced and verified outcomes. We do not claim guaranteed outcomes.

IMPACT CATEGORIES

Outcomes across five domains.

Local infrastructure

· Households designed to be served
· Compute deployed
· Connectivity
· Local storage
· Resilient networking

Local economy

· Local employment
· Local supplier expenditure
· SME / MSME participation

Skills & opportunity

· School / college engagement
· Apprenticeships
· Technical training
· Placements

Community

· Community programmes
· VCSE support
· Volunteering
· Digital inclusion

Environment

· Carbon claims (with claim state)
· Renewable generation
· Circularity / reuse
· Water where evidenced

CEAC-native outcomes are not automatically monetised. Local Economic Value remains separate from Social Value.

DATA CENTRE OPERATORS

Support the distributed layer.

Large data centres remain essential for workloads that need concentration. CEAC explores where suitable inference, retrieval, storage and local processing can operate closer to communities. For data-centre operators, a CEAC partnership can combine infrastructure innovation with measurable community, skills and environmental outcomes.

Talk to us about a data-centre partnership

INDUSTRY BODIES & INFRASTRUCTURE PARTNERS

Explore distributed capacity together.

CEAC can be used as a practical demonstrator for examining how community-scale infrastructure may complement central data-centre growth. We are interested in working with industry bodies, network operators, energy organisations, councils and research partners on deployment, evidence and infrastructure models.

Discuss a strategic partnership

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