# Compute Ownership **Entity class:** Strategic asset concept **Domain:** Artificial intelligence / Compute economics **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition Compute ownership is direct control over the hardware and supporting infrastructure required to train or run machine-intelligence systems. ## Mechanism and significance Ownership can secure availability and strategic autonomy, but it also concentrates capital risk in assets whose performance and market value may reprice rapidly. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#Model Architecture and Compute Economics|Model Architecture and Compute Economics]] - **Primary fields:** [[Machine Intelligence]] · [[AI Infrastructure]] · [[Compute Race]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[Machine-Intelligence Demand]] · [[Compute Leasing]] · [[Hyperscale Resource Allocation]] · [[Cost per Attempt]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this entity or concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Time-sensitive organizational, product, policy, and performance claims should be checked against the linked primary source or a current authoritative source before reuse as settled fact.