MANIFESTO

We are living through the greatest power shift in human history.

For the past century, nations rose and fell based on who controlled oil and gas. That era is over. Today, power is measured in FLOPS, not barrels. In tensor cores, not oil fields. In data centers, not drilling rigs. The new geopolitics isn't fought over the Strait of Hormuz but rather t in TSMC's fabrication plants, in NVIDIA's supply chains, in the silent auctions where cloud capacity is allocated to the highest bidder. Compute is the new energy of civilization.

This is our Gutenberg Bible moment. A technology so transformative it will rewrite civilization itself. But unlike the printing press that democratized knowledge, compute is concentrated, controlled, and rationed. The distribution of GPUs determines which countries lead in AI research and which fall behind, which companies become trillion-dollar giants and which disappear, which languages get sophisticated models and which are ignored. Scaling laws are the physics of progress: more compute means better models, better models mean economic advantage, economic advantage means geopolitical power. Who controls the GPUs controls the future. History is being rewritten right now—so who holds the pen? 

This isn't an abstraction. NVIDIA has become more valuable than most nations' GDPs. Export controls on advanced chips are the new sanctions. Countries are stockpiling GPUs like strategic petroleum reserves. And yet most people don't understand what compute is, why it matters, or who controls it. The most important infrastructure of our time is not understandable to those it will reshape most dramatically.

The GPU Project exists to change that. We are a blog, a research collective, an e-waste atelier, an evolving exploration of compute as the force reshaping everything. We investigate the economics of training frontier models, the geopolitics of chip export controls, the bottlenecks limiting access, and the future where AI chips become as strategic as nuclear weapons. This is for those who refuse to be passive observers of humanity's greatest transformation—for builders who need to understand the infrastructure beneath their ambitions, for policymakers who must govern forces they don't yet comprehend, for citizens who will inherit a world shaped by decisions being made right now in boardrooms and data centers.

We are entering an era where the distribution of GPUs, cloud capacity, and silicon determines the pace of civilization itself. The question is no longer if this transformation will come but whether you will help shape it, or be shaped by it.

XO, Christina