Safety & local autonomy
Provide a validated safe operating plan for cloud outages. Authorized systems or personnel confirm critical actions.
DCP / Public engineering overview
The questions that establish value
Turn concepts into engineering checks: is the resource flexible, can the policy execute, are the results repeatable, and can the system be maintained?
AI concept · Not a project photograph or product specification01Define non-negotiable boundaries
Optimization must not bypass device protection, client permissions or critical business requirements.
Data & choice
Define ownership, use, retention and withdrawal. Verify open interfaces and replaceable modules through compatibility and migration tests.
Recovery & audit
Record policies, states and acknowledgments. Define cancellation, recovery and fault procedures to prevent queues and load rebounds.
02Four acceptance categories
Define denominators, sampling windows, baselines and exclusions. Dashboard or device counts do not replace outcomes.
Safety
Record limit violations, protection margins, fallback tests and availability, including maintenance windows and observation periods.
Economics & energy
Compare peak demand, energy, costs and renewable use at consistent workloads. Include depreciation, operations and migration overhead.
Service quality
Track completion, latency, migration success and agreed service levels. Energy savings must not conceal poorer service.
Operations
Check device availability, data completeness, incident closure, version maintenance and recovery exercises.
03Trust and repeatable delivery
Connect identity, policies and result records into a traceable chain of responsibility.
Devices & policies
Validate identity, firmware and configuration changes. Check command origin, validity and permissions. Specific controls require project security review.
Repeat the pilot
Test across operating cycles and retain exceptional cases. A single demonstration under ideal conditions does not establish ongoing performance.
Validate a second site
Reuse verified device templates, interfaces, acceptance records and procedures. Document differences and additional integration work.
INDUSTRY / IEA 2025
Global data-centre electricity use
TWh / 2024 estimate vs 2030 Base Case projection; not DCP performance
2024 · Estimate415 TWh
2030 · Projection945 TWh
05001,000 TWh
Only the two reported values are shown; no invented annual observations. Projections are not outcomes.
IEA Energy and AI (2025) · Source ↗