Biological Data Centre - Bryant McGill

# Biological Data Centre **Entity class:** Biohybrid-computing infrastructure **Collections:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] · [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] ## Definition **Biological Data Centre** is an infrastructure model in which living neural cultures operate inside maintained, network-accessible computing systems. ## Relationships - **Technical relationship:** It connects [[wiki/Cortical Labs|Cortical Labs]], [[wiki/CL1 Biological Computer|CL1]], and [[wiki/Organoid Intelligence|Organoid Intelligence]] without implying consciousness or personhood. - **Canonical source:** [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]]. - **Collection relationship:** The entry belongs to [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] and the person-scale persistence questions maintained by [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]].  This entry's documented connections are expressed in its definition and related-work routes, with provenance retained in the source-linked material.  ## Epistemic boundary Inclusion in the continuity stack records a documented component, method, model, or analytic distinction; it leaves whole-person transfer, subjective continuity, or numerical identity unresolved. ## Related Work in the Corpus  - In [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]], **X. Living substrates** provides the narrative context for **Biological Data Centre**: The August 2026 Singapore deployment is a category change rather than an increment.  ## Research Inferences  These entries translate the forward-looking register in [[research/Research Inferences|Research Inferences]] into ordinary wiki prose. The tier labels apply to the inference, not automatically to every factual anchor inside it. The interpretive frame comes from [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] and [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]]. Collection route: [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]]. - **INF-0154 — Strongly indicated.** A hyperscale developer with roughly 2.1GW of bookings taking a position in biological compute means the substrate is being evaluated against datacenter power economics. That comparison — joules per useful operation — is the only metric under which wetware wins, and it is now being measured by people who buy power.