---
title: "Chapter 7, instruction rather than rule, due 31 December 2027 · The AI Compute Race · DRYBURGH"
source: https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests/2027-19
description: "Chapter 7, instruction rather than rule: due 31 December 2027."
---

# Chapter 7, instruction rather than rule

Due 31 December 2027

**The test.** A published central legal text for the customs instruction or the state-datacenter ban withdraws the claim. A provincial or municipal reply describing central guidance is not one.

a mixed or partial reading No published directive has been found.

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

**Falls due:** 31 December 2027

**Read on:** A published central legal text

**Chapter:** [Chapter 7 — The Double Blockade](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes/chapter-7)Two governments deciding one trade: Washington’s export rules and Beijing’s instructions at the border, and what each did to the chip business it meant to shape.

## Filings that bear on it

- [Liaoning Provincial Data and Government Services Administration](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/filings/liaoning-compute-2026)Liaoning’s provincial data administration wrote on 24 June 2026, in a reply posted on 25 August, that the national planning commission’s window guidance bars local subsidies for compute construction and that the province’s projects are mostly civil works.
- [Pingdingshan Municipal Administrative Approval and Government Information Management Bureau](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/filings/pingdingshan-compute-2025)Pingdingshan’s municipal approval bureau wrote on 26 June 2025 that state and provincial policies of April 2025 put every compute center project under window guidance, except facilities built with other social capital, which go on a filing system.

[Add this test to your calendar](webcal://dryburgh.com/vol1/data/tests.ics?test=2027-19) · Download this test: [CSV](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/data/test-2027-19.csv) · [JSON](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/data/test-2027-19.json)

## Related in the record

- Chapter notes [Chapter 7 — The Double Blockade](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes/chapter-7)

- [Campuses](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger)
- [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.

[About the book](https://dryburgh.com/vol1)[Tell me when it is out](https://dryburgh.com/vol1#notify)