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CarbonStream Nexus — Compute Accountability Infrastructure

Pilot

Nigeria-first pilot pathway

Research / future

CSN proposes to develop and test compute accountability in Nigeria first — where digital infrastructure is expanding quickly, grid conditions are highly variable, and accountability tooling is largely absent. This page describes a pathway, at pre-pilot stage.

Rationale

Why Nigeria first

Not as a case study of someone else's infrastructure — as the place the work is being done from.

Variable grid conditions

Grid intensity and reliability vary sharply, which makes context an unavoidable part of any honest emissions figure rather than a rounding detail.

Expanding compute footprint

Data-centre and AI compute capacity is growing, and accountability structures are being set now rather than retrofitted later.

Local technical ownership

The specification, tooling and critique are developed locally, rather than imported as a finished framework.

Pathway

Six stages, in order of dependency

Current position: pre-pilot. Only Stage 0 exists.

  1. 00

    Stage 0 — Browser prototype

    Prototype — functional

    A working demonstrator that produces timestamped demonstration records from declared inputs. This stage exists today.

  2. 01

    Stage 1 — Record design review

    In development

    Circulate the record structure and attribution method to technical and institutional readers for critique before any data is involved.

  3. 02

    Stage 2 — Declared-input accounting

    Research / future

    Operators produce records from declared inputs only, using the demonstrator workflow. The output is a record, not a measurement claim.

  4. 03

    Stage 3 — Context grounding

    Research / future

    Replace illustrative scenario factors with sourced, citable regional factors, each carrying its reference inside the record.

  5. 04

    Stage 4 — Instrumented measurement

    Research / future

    Investigate direct measurement at a participating facility. Requires partners and instrumentation that do not currently exist.

  6. 05

    Stage 5 — Independent verification

    Research / future

    Define how a record is checked by a party other than its author, and what an attested record would mean. No verification process exists.