The NPDC consortium
Net-Positive Data Centers (NPDC) is convened by a consortium of operators, host-community advisors, and epistemic-stakeholder institutions. The roster below names the seats. Where the seat is committed but the named occupant is not yet public, the entry reads To be confirmed.
Leadership
The founding seats of the consortium. Headshots and full biographies to follow.
Founder
To be confirmed. NPDC was founded out of the Cogniosynthesis research programme. Founding biography will publish ahead of the whitepaper v1.
Technical lead
To be confirmed. The 100 kW MicroDC reference architecture is being prepared for publication in the v1 whitepaper. The technical lead will be named at publication.
Community-partnership lead
To be confirmed. The community-partnership lead carries the tri-partite governance interface with host-community councils. Named at first-pilot announcement.
Epistemic-governance lead
To be confirmed. The seven-dimensional governance layer is co-designed with universities, indigenous institutions, and Global South researchers. Lead named alongside the v1 whitepaper.
Advisors
Named advisors will appear here as the consortium publishes the seat occupants. Until then the line is honest: To be confirmed.
- Technical advisory seat (Stanford IPW–adjacent): To be confirmed.
- Technical advisory seat (CPU-native inference): To be confirmed.
- Water-anthropology advisory seat: To be confirmed.
- Regulatory advisory seat (US / NY State): To be confirmed.
- Regulatory advisory seat (UK / EU): To be confirmed.
Partner institutions
The institutions whose research grounds the NPDC architecture. NPDC does not claim institutional partnership unless the partnership is formally confirmed. The entries below are research anchors, not endorsements.
Research anchors
- Stanford University — Intelligence Per Watt programme (research anchor; not a formal partnership).
- Microsoft Research — BitNet b1.58 framework (open-source dependency; not a formal partnership).
- University of Wales Press — Dr Luci Attala, How Water Makes Us Human (cited work; not a formal partnership).
Ecosystem affiliation
- Cogniosynthesis ecosystem — NPDC is one of several projects in the Cogniosynthesis research programme. See cogniosynthesisportal.uk.
Formal partnerships
To be announced. Formal partner institutions will be listed here as agreements are signed. NPDC publishes only confirmed partnerships.
Get involved
If you operate a host-community council, an investor seat, or an epistemic-stakeholder institution evaluating distributed-compute infrastructure, the consortium is the next conversation.
Enquire about consortium membership Get notified when the whitepaper publishes