A word the chapters use for several measures of pace. The Prologue’s four clocks are how long a lead lasts, how long a rent runs, how long a chip is paid for and how long a permit takes. The others each have an entry: the clocks of diffusion, the capability clock and the adoption clock, the science clock of chapter 3, the lenders’ clock (the rack’s clock, chapter 10’s name for it), the subsidy clock, and the Scorecard’s clocks. The Prologue; chapters 1, 3, 10, 11, 14; the Scorecard.
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Where the record uses it
- Campus Stargate Michigan / The Barn
- Campus Stargate Milam County
- Campus HUMAIN Saudi AI-factory program
- Campus Stargate Norway
- Campus Stargate UK
- Scorecard indicator Hyperscalers’ Q1 operating cash flow (OCF) / cash capex
- Dated test Chapter 6, the queue is not a forecast; chapter 14, construction is the binding clock, due 10 December 2026
Also discussed in
- Chapter notes Chapter 11 — What the Machine Has to Earn
- Chapter notes Chapter 4 — One Rack
Related terms
From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Clock.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/clock (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-clock-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Clock}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/clock},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}