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title: "Moving bottleneck: what it means · The AI Compute Race · DRYBURGH"
source: https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/moving-bottleneck
description: "Moving bottleneck: The second of chapter 12's claims, that the binding constraint on compute moves in a predictable order and can be named before it binds…"
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# Moving bottleneck

What does “Moving bottleneck” mean?

Moving bottleneckThe second of chapter 12’s claims, that the binding constraint on compute moves in a predictable order and can be named before it binds rather than after. For 2027 the book names permission (the permits and the consent that the 2026 record already shows binding), and for 2028 the bond market’s patience. *Chapter 12.*

From *The AI Compute Race*. [Read the book](https://dryburgh.com/vol1#buy)

The book uses this term in a sense of its own.

Defined in [Chapter 12 — Cross-Examination](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes/chapter-12).

## Where the book uses it

- [Chapter 12 — Cross-Examination](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes/chapter-12)The book’s own thesis put on trial: five claims, each scored against the record and given a dated test that could prove it wrong.

## Also discussed in

- Dated test [Chapter 12, claim 2, the forecast](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests#2028-14)

## Related terms

- [Compute](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/compute)
- [Consent](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/consent)
- [Abilene](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/abilene)
- [Announced against energized](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/announced-against-energized)
- [Campus ledger](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/campus-ledger)
- [Consent as a race](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/consent-as-a-race)
- [Conversion, prevention](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/conversion-prevention)
- [Credit protection](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/credit-protection)
- [Cross-examination](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/cross-examination)
- [Destructive finance](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/destructive-finance)
- [Evidenced](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/evidenced)
- [Falsifier](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/falsifier)

From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.

- [Campuses](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger)
- [Tests](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests)
- [Scorecard](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/scorecard)
- [Data](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/data/releases)
- [Chapter by chapter](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/companion)
- [The record at a glance](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/observatory)
- [The machine](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/machine)
- [One campus, four futures](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/hyperion)
- [Glossary](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary)
- [People](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/people)
- [Sources](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/sources)
- [Notes](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes)
- [Where the book was wrong](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/corrections)
- [Where its sources were wrong](https://dryburgh.com/corrections?book=vol1)
- [The Paper](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/paper)
- [Consent](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/consent)
- [Who builds and pays](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties)

*The AI Compute Race: Five Races, One Machine* is a book by Lee S. Dryburgh, the first volume of THE COMPUTE ECONOMY, published by Dryburgh, an imprint of Contestra OÜ, Tallinn, Estonia; its record closes on 8 November 2026.

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