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[canonical] Anti-Capture-and-Community-Ownership.md 04. [canonical] Application-Data-Model.md 05. [canonical] Cold-Climate-Cooling.md 06. [canonical] Communities-Languages-and-Dignity.md 07. [canonical] Contributing.md 08. [canonical] Corridor-Dossier-Strategy.md 09. [canonical] Corridor-Research-Profiles.md 10. [canonical] Economic-Architecture-Frontier.md 11. [canonical] Energy-Hosting-Architecture.md 12. [canonical] Environmental-Design-and-Site-Selection.md 13. [canonical] Evidence-Coverage-and-Map-Confidence.md 14. [canonical] Existing-Grid-vs-New-Generation.md 15. [canonical] Explorer-and-Showcase.md 16. [canonical] FAQ.md 17. [canonical] Fibre-as-the-Export-Corridor.md 18. [canonical] From-One-Site-to-a-Northern-Network.md 19. [canonical] Future-AI-Compute.md 20. [canonical] Glossary.md 21. [canonical] Governance-FPIC-and-Community-Benefits.md 22. [canonical] Harmonious-Deployment.md 23. [canonical] Heat-Recovery-and-Community-Energy.md 24. [canonical] Historical-Hydro-Economic-Evidence.md 25. [canonical] Home.md 26. [canonical] Human-Infrastructure.md 27. [canonical] Hydro-Resource-Atlas.md 28. [canonical] Hydrology-and-Watershed-Research.md 29. [canonical] Infrastructure-Status-2026.md 30. [canonical] International-Learning-and-Universities.md 31. [canonical] International-Mobilization-and-Distributed-Resilience.md 32. [canonical] International-Portfolio-Research.md 33. [canonical] Metrics-and-Public-Dashboard.md 34. [canonical] Mine-Infrastructure-Reuse.md 35. [canonical] Mine-Pit-Pumped-Storage.md 36. [canonical] North-Labrador-Telecom-Research.md 37. [canonical] Nunavik-Marine-Infrastructure-Research.md 38. [canonical] Pilot-Geography-and-Expansion.md 39. [canonical] Port-Capability-and-Heavy-Logistics-Research.md 40. [canonical] Ports-Maritime-Logistics-and-Mobile-Campus.md 41. [canonical] Project-Direction.md 42. [canonical] Project-State.md 43. [canonical] Public-Repository-and-Confidence-Levels.md 44. [canonical] Quebec-Data-Centre-Regulatory-Context-2026.md 45. [canonical] README.md 46. [canonical] Real-Northern-Project-Logistics-Precedents.md 47. [canonical] Remote-Energy-Reference-Cases.md 48. [canonical] Repository-and-Project-Boundaries.md 49. [canonical] Research-Layers-and-Map-Data.md 50. [canonical] Responsible-International-Tenancy.md 51. [canonical] Resume-Francais.md 52. [canonical] Risks-and-Go-No-Go-Gates.md 53. [canonical] Secure-Compute-and-Black-Box-Tenancy.md 54. [canonical] Serviced-Compute-Pads.md 55. [canonical] Site-Archetypes.md 56. [canonical] Source-Basis.md 57. [canonical] Structural-Cost-Advantage.md 58. [canonical] The-Core-Idea.md 59. [canonical] Topography-and-Head-Screening.md 60. [canonical] Transmission-vs-Digital-Export.md 61. [canonical] What-Is-Validated-and-What-Is-Being-Tested.md 62. [canonical] Why-the-North.md 63. [canonical] Working-Economic-Examples.md ================================================================================================ FILE: _Footer.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ --- **Kristal Farms.** Public explanatory wiki synchronized 2026-09-01. Screening remains unranked. Canonical project state, evidence, policy contracts, code and release controls live in the `kristal-farms` repository. ================================================================================================ FILE: _Sidebar.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ ### Kristal Farms - [[Home]] - [[Résumé français|Resume Francais]] - [[Project State]] - [[Project Direction]] - [[FAQ]] ### Physical architecture - [[The Core Idea]] - [[Why the North]] - [[Energy Hosting Architecture]] - [[Existing Grid vs New Generation]] - [[Site Archetypes]] - [[Serviced Compute Pads]] - [[Fibre as the Export Corridor]] - [[Heat Recovery and Community Energy]] - [[Cold Climate Cooling]] - [[Ports Maritime Logistics and Mobile Campus]] ### Development and screening - [[Corridor Dossier Strategy]] - [[Pilot Geography and Expansion]] - [[Hydro Resource Atlas]] - [[Hydrology and Watershed Research]] - [[Topography and Head Screening]] - [[Environmental Design and Site Selection]] - [[Governance FPIC and Community Benefits]] - [[Anti Capture and Community Ownership]] - [[Mine Infrastructure Reuse]] - [[Mine Pit Pumped Storage]] - [[Risks and Go No Go Gates]] ### International strategy - [[Responsible International Tenancy]] - [[Secure Compute and Black Box Tenancy]] - [[International Mobilization and Distributed Resilience]] - [[International Portfolio Research]] - [[Future AI Compute]] - [[International Learning and Universities]] ### Logistics and infrastructure research - [[From One Site to a Northern Network]] - [[Port Capability and Heavy Logistics Research]] - [[Nunavik Marine Infrastructure Research]] - [[North Labrador Telecom Research]] - [[Real Northern Project Logistics Precedents]] - [[Remote Energy Reference Cases]] - [[Harmonious Deployment]] - [[Infrastructure Status 2026]] - [[Corridor Research Profiles]] ### Observatory and evidence - [[Explorer and Showcase]] - [[Application Data Model]] - [[Research Layers and Map Data]] - [[Evidence Coverage and Map Confidence]] - [[Metrics and Public Dashboard]] - [[What Is Validated and What Is Being Tested]] - [[Public Repository and Confidence Levels]] - [[Source Basis]] ### Economics and regulation - [[Structural Cost Advantage]] - [[Transmission vs Digital Export]] - [[Economic Architecture Frontier]] - [[Historical Hydro Economic Evidence]] - [[Working Economic Examples]] - [[Quebec Data Centre Regulatory Context 2026]] ### Long-term and adjacent - [[Human Infrastructure]] - [[Communities Languages and Dignity]] ### Reference - [[Glossary]] - [[Contributing]] - [[Repository and Project Boundaries]] ================================================================================================ FILE: Anti-Capture-and-Community-Ownership.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Anti-Capture and Community Ownership The project should design anti-capture rules **before success makes land and infrastructure valuable**. Core principle: > **Capital may finance Kristal Farms; capital must not be able to buy the community.** Potential directions for later legal design include: - strategic land held under community/public/fiduciary structures; - leases and use rights instead of unrestricted sale for strategic assets; - limits on concentration where lawful; - non-market/community housing components; - pre-emption or first-refusal mechanisms where appropriate; - separation of control over energy, port, fibre, housing, employment and governance; - political rights not proportional to invested capital; - value capture for land appreciation created by shared infrastructure. A central design rule is **shared interfaces, separate authority**. No single vertically integrated actor should automatically control energy + port + fibre + housing + jobs + community governance. ================================================================================================ FILE: Application-Data-Model.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Application Data Model **Status:** Current application/data architecture **As of:** 2026-08-31 **Canonical basis:** application architecture, policy contracts and publishing pipelines **Public limits:** publication artifacts are derived views, not the canonical source of truth Kristal Farms uses an application-native geospatial/evidence model rather than treating standalone map layers as the system of record. ## Operational source of truth The target operational source of truth is **PostgreSQL + PostGIS**. GeoJSON, MVT, PMTiles, COG, GeoPackage and JSON publications are derived for web, analysis or exchange. ## Core separation The model distinguishes: - `PLACE`, `ASSET`, `PROJECT`, `CORRIDOR`, `NATURAL_FEATURE`; - `SOURCE`, `EVIDENCE`, `OBSERVATION`; - `SCENARIO`, `ASSUMPTION`, `RESULT`; - system configuration, ingestion jobs and releases. A valid evidence record may have `geometry = NULL`. Missing geometry is not repaired with invented coordinates. ## Governance additions International tenancy adds two data classes that must remain separate: 1. **restricted eligibility/due-diligence records** — legal counterparty, ownership/control, screening evidence, reviewers and decision state; 2. **public derived portfolio artifacts** — only fields approved for public research presentation. The machine-readable jurisdiction/policy contracts are governance inputs, not map decorations. ## International portfolio `research/commercial/international_portfolio_12.yaml` is a research source. `data/publish/current/international_portfolio_public.json` is a derived working public artifact consumed by the app. The current canonical public release manifest has not yet been reconciled to declare that artifact, so publication status should remain explicit. ## Mine research Mine-reuse fields can live in research metadata while the workstream is exploratory. If they become routinely queried/published, they should be promoted through governed migrations/contracts/tests rather than left only in free-form JSON. ## Required semantics The data model preserves distinctions such as: - planning margin ≠ validated compute capacity; - reference project ≠ Kristal Farms candidate; - observation ≠ assumption; - terrain drop ≠ project head; - historical mine power ≠ current capacity; - mine depth ≠ storage head; - pit volume ≠ usable cycled volume; - prospect ≠ committed tenant; - evidence completeness ≠ ranking. See [[Research Layers and Map Data]] and [[Public Repository and Confidence Levels]]. ================================================================================================ FILE: Cold-Climate-Cooling.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Cold-Climate Cooling Cold climate is a meaningful design advantage, but the project does not claim a universal PUE target before a real design is tested. ## Potential advantages - longer periods of economized/free cooling; - reduced mechanical refrigeration duty; - easier heat rejection for high-density loads; - opportunity to combine dry coolers, liquid cooling and heat-recovery interfaces. ## Discipline Public efficiency benchmarks are **context only**. They do not set a default Kristal Farms PUE of 1.10–1.20. A real node must measure: - IT load and facility load; - seasonal PUE; - cooling-water consumption, if any; - heat recovered and actually used; - weather-related derating/icing risks; - maintenance/access implications. Cooling advantage is part of the business case, not a substitute for site-specific engineering. ================================================================================================ FILE: Communities-Languages-and-Dignity.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Communities, Languages and Dignity Long-term settlement or institutional concepts must operate within applicable Canadian/provincial law and protect individual rights, safety, freedom of conscience, privacy, movement and the ability to leave. The project can support culturally strong local institutions and languages where communities choose that direction, but infrastructure finance does not confer political control over residents or community identity. Any future culturally distinct village/campus concept is a long-horizon possibility, not a prerequisite for Kristal Farms energy/compute deployment. ================================================================================================ FILE: Contributing.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Contributing Contributions should preserve the evidence discipline of the current evidence baseline. ## Before adding a claim 1. identify the source and date; 2. classify it as fact, observation, derived value, assumption, legacy evidence or unknown; 3. keep geometry semantics explicit; 4. do not upgrade funded/studied/tendered infrastructure to completed without evidence; 5. do not turn proximity into access; 6. do not calculate project head, design flow, MW, site score, NPV or IRR from incomplete research inputs; 7. preserve the unranked screening state unless governance explicitly authorizes a future ranking method. ## Source conflicts Do not silently choose one value when definitions differ. Preserve both records, identify the conflict/definition issue and create a resolution task. ## Wiki changes Keep public pages aligned with the canonical project direction and source hierarchy. Historical compatibility pages should clearly state when a concept has been superseded. ================================================================================================ FILE: Corridor-Dossier-Strategy.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Corridor Dossier Strategy **Status:** Next project-development unit **As of:** 2026-08-31 **Canonical basis:** project state, workstreams, international and mine-reuse controls **Public limits:** dossiers are unranked evidence-building units, not selected projects The next development mode is to take a small, deliberately diverse set of corridors and replace broad proxies with project-specific evidence. ## Dossier structure 1. **Corridor definition** — communities, watersheds, ports, roads, fibre, energy and relevant mine/brownfield context. 2. **Hydro/resource evidence** — authoritative geometry, hydrometric evidence, seasonality, low flow and terrain. 3. **Concept alternatives** — generation concept and compute placement. 4. **Community / Indigenous governance** — rights, decision process, ownership/benefit alternatives and community energy priorities. 5. **Environment** — protected areas, habitats, cumulative effects, cultural use and site-specific study requirements. 6. **Marine / ground logistics** — vessel, wharf, offload, laydown, bridge/road/culvert route and upgrade scope. 7. **Telecom** — carrier, route, landing, redundancy, capacity, service model, commercial terms and repair strategy. 8. **Compute / tenancy** — pad interfaces, tenant control boundary, shared telemetry and physical-security responsibilities. 9. **International demand** — attributable tenant requirements, counterparty diligence status, concentration exposure and compatibility with Canadian placement. 10. **Mine reuse, if relevant** — lifecycle/owner, restoration status, asset condition, current-use conflict and reuse-specific engineering gates. 11. **Economics** — current quotations for equal-scope architectures, not benchmark ratios alone. 12. **Decision gate** — reject, hold or advance. ## Portfolio logic Use contrasting cases rather than selecting a public “winner” immediately: - one Côte-Nord/Basse-Côte-Nord corridor for pilot learning; - one farther-north Québec corridor where avoided road/HV burden is structurally important; - one Labrador corridor with different utility, telecom and logistics conditions. International demand can change which service envelope is worth testing, but a prospect inventory must not determine the site before physical/community evidence. ## Additional international doctrine A dossier intended for international compute should explicitly test: - new renewable generation consumed locally; - practical marine access; - high-capacity standard telecom; - comparatively low ecological sensitivity supported by evidence; - concentration risk across tenant/jurisdiction/carrier/port/site. The purpose is to learn which variables dominate before any ranking is enabled. ================================================================================================ FILE: Corridor-Research-Profiles.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Corridor Research Profiles Corridors are broad research groupings that help organize the northern geography without inventing infrastructure routes. The integrated atlas uses canonical relations and `geometry = NULL` for conceptual corridors. They may group rivers, communities, ports and external references, but they do not represent a road, transmission line, fibre cable, marine track or legal boundary. Current broad research geographies include Côte-Nord/Basse-Côte-Nord, Nunavik Hudson/Hudson Strait/Ungava and Labrador corridors. Corridors become project-relevant only when a dossier replaces the conceptual grouping with real geography, engineering and governance evidence. ================================================================================================ FILE: Economic-Architecture-Frontier.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Economic Architecture Frontier The economic frontier is a **structural break-even test**, not a bankable financial model. It compares enabling-infrastructure burdens for two monetization paths around a remote generation opportunity: - conventional electrical export: access + substations/transmission + distant load; - Kristal Farms: local electrical works + flexible compute + fibre export. ## Benchmark discipline Published transmission projects, northern road studies and fibre funding decisions provide external reference context. Their ratios have different scopes and cannot be promoted directly into site estimates. Unknown Kristal Farms-specific costs remain `UNPRICED`, including pad/site work, local electrical systems, port upgrades, fibre landing/terminal, local access, storage/backup, O&M, financing, contingency and project-specific environmental/rights costs. ## Generic sensitivity frontier The current 64-case distance grid demonstrates that the method can produce both positive and negative headroom depending on how much long road/HV infrastructure is avoided and how much new fibre is required. It is not a statistical sample and the share of positive cases is not a probability of project success. A positive difference is called **remaining unpriced Kristal Farms budget**, not savings. Project economics require real distances, engineering, quotations, commercial terms and regulatory analysis within a corridor/site dossier. ================================================================================================ FILE: Energy-Hosting-Architecture.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Energy Hosting Architecture **Status:** Current reference architecture **As of:** 2026-08-31 **Canonical basis:** project state and international mobilization strategy **Public limits:** project-specific resource, interconnection and regulatory treatment remain unresolved ## Primary rule Kristal Farms does not begin by asking how many “spare MW” a community grid has. It asks whether **new renewable generation** can support protected community value and flexible local compute. > **new generation → protected community interface → flexible compute → fibre export** ## Mandatory design rules 1. Community and critical loads are priority loads. 2. Compute is flexible/curtailable before essential community service. 3. New generation and compute scale together. 4. Generation-side, community/port-side and hybrid layouts remain valid. 5. Heat recovery is optional and justified only where useful sinks and economics support it. 6. Short local/MV electrical links are acceptable where required; the target is avoided/reduced long HV export burden. 7. Fibre route, capacity, redundancy, SLA and repair assumptions must be evidenced before a site claim. 8. External renewable projects are references, not Kristal Farms candidates. 9. No site ranking is active. 10. Regulatory applicability must be determined for each ownership/interconnection architecture. ## International site doctrine For the new international workstream, the preferred commercial thesis is **new renewable generation consumed locally**. Existing power may support construction where appropriate and authorized, but existing dams/community systems are not the assumed long-term compute supply. Practical marine access and standard high-capacity telecom are part of the site architecture, not afterthoughts. ## Telecom boundary Kristal Farms defines required service characteristics; carriers use standard telecom technologies. The architecture does not require a proprietary Kristal data protocol or mandatory shared data network among tenants. ================================================================================================ FILE: Environmental-Design-and-Site-Selection.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Environmental Design and Site Selection **Status:** Screening and dossier principle **As of:** 2026-08-31 **Canonical basis:** project environmental controls, international site doctrine and mine-reuse method **Public limits:** “comparatively low sensitivity” is a research hypothesis, never environmental clearance Kristal Farms does not assume that “remote north” means low environmental sensitivity. ## Screening principles - prefer lower ecological/cumulative conflict where evidence supports it; - consider existing/disturbed industrial or port land where practical; - avoid unnecessary long corridors; - minimize consumptive cooling water where feasible; - use compact/modular layouts and restoration planning; - evaluate fish/habitat, protected areas, wetlands, cultural use, cumulative effects and access impacts with current authoritative evidence. ## International doctrine The international strategy uses **comparatively low ecological sensitivity** as a desired site characteristic. This means a site hypothesis should attempt to avoid obvious high-conflict areas — not that absence of mapped constraints proves acceptability. ## Mine/brownfield additions Mine reuse introduces additional questions: - closure and restoration obligations; - contamination and acid-rock drainage; - pit-wall/rock-mass stability; - groundwater/seepage and hydrogeology; - mine water chemistry; - tailings/waste-rock interaction; - current liability and responsible party; - rights/governance and current redevelopment conflicts. Infrastructure reuse must not interfere with required closure, remediation or environmental monitoring. ## Important evidence rule Absence of a red polygon on the atlas is **not clearance**. Legacy “no-go” labels are historical evidence only unless current legal/environmental evidence supports an active prohibition. No project advances solely because it appears technically attractive or previously disturbed. ================================================================================================ FILE: Evidence-Coverage-and-Map-Confidence.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Evidence Coverage and Map Confidence The atlas tracks documentation coverage because research maturity matters. But coverage is **not** site quality. Useful confidence states include: - authoritative/current fact; - historical/dated reference; - derived value with lineage; - assumption/scenario input; - unverified legacy context; - unknown/research required. A well-documented basin may be environmentally unacceptable or uneconomic. A poorly documented basin may simply need more research. The map can use opacity, outline or evidence badges to distinguish **well documented ↔ less documented**. It must not convert this into **good site ↔ bad site** without an approved future ranking methodology. ================================================================================================ FILE: Existing-Grid-vs-New-Generation.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Existing Grid vs New Generation A critical research correction is that Kristal Farms is **not** primarily a plan to connect a 5–100+ MW compute load to spare capacity on a small northern community grid. Hydro-Québec autonomous-grid planning margins in the current evidence base were generally measured in hundreds of kW to around 2 MW. These are reliability-planning values, not firm hosting capacity or customer allocation. ## Existing community grid The existing grid answers questions such as: - what loads must be protected for homes, clinic, school, water, telecom and local business; - what backup/islanding/black-start/load-shedding interface is required; - how future community growth is protected. ## New Kristal Farms-associated generation A separate question asks: - what new hydro/renewable resource can be developed; - what is its seasonal/firm profile; - what flexible compute load can be matched to it; - what community-priority energy can be supplied without making essential service dependent on compute operation. The conceptual direction is: > **develop new remote generation + protect community priority + colocate flexible compute + export data over fibre.** ================================================================================================ FILE: Explorer-and-Showcase.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Explorer and Showcase **Status:** Observatory application in active development **As of:** 2026-08-31 **Canonical basis:** `apps/web/components/shell/KristalFarmsObservatoryShell.tsx`, International 12 component and current interface tests **Public limits:** workspace presence does not imply full product completion The current application is organized as a single **Kristal Farms Observatory** shell with five governed workspaces. ## 01 — Northern Atlas **Implementation:** dedicated component implemented. Purpose: - evidence-first geographic exploration; - governed published extent; - hydrology/community/infrastructure context; - evidence inspection without manufacturing missing geometry; - unranked visual semantics. ## 02 — Corridors **Implementation:** scaffold / governed product framing. Purpose: - turn broad research into decision-grade corridor dossiers; - preserve required hydro, fibre, marine, community/rights and environmental gates; - remain unranked until controlled evidence supports comparison. The workspace exists in the shell, but it is not yet a completed dossier product. ## 03 — International 12 **Implementation:** dedicated portfolio explorer implemented and tested. Purpose: - expose the 12-slot research portfolio; - show service hypotheses, jurisdiction-policy context and outreach/diligence state; - make `RESEARCH_ONLY` and `commitments_claimed=false` visible; - avoid turning a prospect inventory into a commitment announcement. See [[International Portfolio Research]]. ## 04 — Economics **Implementation:** scaffold / scenario framing. Purpose: - compare equal-scope architectures; - expose sensitivities and unpriced components; - avoid turning benchmark ratios into site CAPEX, NPV or IRR. ## 05 — Evidence **Implementation:** scaffold / provenance framing. Purpose: - make source, evidence, assumptions, unknowns and publication controls inspectable; - support provenance and release discipline. ## Relationship to older “Showcase / Explorer / Scenario Studio” language The `2026.08.30` root release manifest still lists **Showcase**, **Explorer** and **Scenario Studio**. The current code has evolved into the five-workspace Observatory shell above. This wiki describes the code that exists while preserving the older release-manifest language as a release-state distinction. ## Visual discipline Symbology and interface ordering communicate object type, validation state, role and temporal status — **not merit**. While `ranking_allowed=false`, the UI must not manufacture a site ranking through marker size, traffic-light colours, stars or ordered “best” lists. ## Implementation rule Use three labels consistently: - **implemented** — dedicated working component/behavior exists in current code/tests; - **scaffold** — shell/workspace framing exists but the domain product is not complete; - **target** — intended future behavior documented but not yet implemented. This prevents the wiki from announcing five finished products simply because five navigation entries exist. ================================================================================================ FILE: FAQ.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # FAQ **As of:** 2026-09-01 **Status:** Public explanatory FAQ ## What is Kristal Farms? A northern infrastructure architecture that brings flexible compute to new remote renewable generation and exports digital value over fibre, with community energy priority and evidence-driven project development. ## Is a first site selected? No. Screening remains unranked. Côte-Nord is the pilot/learning geography; the longer-term resource thesis extends farther north in Québec and Labrador. ## Does Kristal Farms plan to use spare megawatts from small community grids? No. Existing community grids are protected interfaces and context. Multi-megawatt compute normally requires its own validated new-generation/supply concept. ## Must compute be beside a community? No. Generation-side, community/port-side and hybrid layouts remain valid. ## What is “black-box tenancy”? A tenant-controlled encrypted environment where Kristal Farms operates the agreed physical/shared services and minimum necessary telemetry without requiring routine access to private models, datasets, prompts, application payloads or decryption keys. ## Can any government, company or university simply bring a module? No. Commercial access is subject to jurisdictional/counterparty eligibility, ownership/control review, sanctions/trade screening, contract and periodic re-review. Privacy is a service boundary **after** admission, not a bypass around admission. ## Does Kristal Farms secretly inspect tenant workloads to enforce its values? No. The controlled model is counterparty- and contract-based. Routine private-content inspection, default key escrow, covert monitoring and a standing decryption backdoor are outside the baseline. ## Is the current country exclusion list final? Not yet in the machine-readable control contracts. The r2 jurisdiction schedule is marked `PROPOSED_C0_ADOPTION`, and D-011 remains open. The governance framework is current, but this wiki does not present the proposed r2 country overlay as finally adopted. ## Are there 12 committed international tenants? No. “International 12” is a 12-slot **research portfolio**. `commitments_claimed=false`. Named organizations are research candidates until direct attributable commercial evidence and applicable diligence exist. ## Is Kristal Farms building an international defence coalition? No. Diversifying tenants, jurisdictions, carriers, ports and sites may improve commercial/operational resilience and broader stakeholder attention, but it is not a military alliance, collective-defence commitment, extraterritorial status or guarantee of government intervention. ## Does “underground mine” mean secure bunker? No. Underground geometry does not prove blast/EMP resistance, high-security certification, safe occupancy, fire compliance, ventilation, egress, geotechnical condition or cooling feasibility. ## Are old open-pit mines excluded from pumped-storage research? No. Old pits remain eligible for reservoir screening. Mine age is more important to preservation of underground industrial assets than to the basic geometry question for pumped storage. ## Does pumped storage create new energy? No. Pumped storage shifts energy in time and returns less electricity than was used for pumping. It only makes sense when a specific system-value case exists. ## Does a port on the map mean heavy project cargo can be landed there? No. Marine service, facility presence, structural capacity and project-cargo approval are separate facts. ## Is heat recovery mandatory? No. Heat is a co-product used where a real thermal sink justifies the extra recovery/distribution system. ## Does the economic frontier prove Kristal Farms is cheaper? No. It is a structural stress test using external benchmarks and explicit unknowns. Bankable conclusions require a project-specific dossier. ## Does the Observatory rank sites? No. `ranking_allowed=false`. Evidence completeness is not site quality. ## Are all five Observatory workspaces complete? No. Northern Atlas and International 12 have dedicated implemented components. Corridors, Economics and Evidence are currently scaffolded governed workspaces. ================================================================================================ FILE: Fibre-as-the-Export-Corridor.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Fibre as the Export Corridor **Status:** Core architecture requirement **As of:** 2026-08-31 **Canonical basis:** project state and international mobilization strategy **Public limits:** community telecom context is not compute-grade service evidence Fibre is the infrastructure that exports **digital value** after electricity is consumed locally. ## What must be evidenced - actual carrier/backbone; - route and landing geometry; - capacity and upgrade path; - physically diverse routing where feasible; - dark fibre/wholesale/wavelength/Ethernet/IP or other applicable standard service; - commercial terms; - latency and peering requirements; - reliability/SLA; - repair strategy, northern spares and restoration time; - permits, shore-end works and marine constraints where applicable. ## Multi-operator resilience The international direction seeks to avoid dependence on one carrier or one physical route. Where feasible, dossiers should test multiple operators, diverse paths and multiple interconnection points. This is a resilience requirement, not a requirement for Kristal Farms to own a proprietary telecom network. ## No mandatory shared tenant data plane Kristal defines the service requirement; carriers and tenants define transport/application architectures. Tenants do not need a common Kristal data protocol or mandatory shared data plan. ## Current evidence discipline The atlas can represent a community’s telecom context without inventing cable geometry. Operating, planned, interim and unresolved states remain separate. A fibre marker is not evidence that a multi-MW compute tenant can obtain the required route, capacity, SLA or repair model at a proposed site. ================================================================================================ FILE: From-One-Site-to-a-Northern-Network.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # From One Site to a Northern Network The long-term concept is a **chain of hydro/compute/fibre/port nodes** across northern Québec and Labrador. Primary corridors: - **fibre** — digital value; - **marine transport** — workers, equipment, freight and supplies; - **shorter local/regional electrical links** — where useful for backup, balancing or resilience. The concept is not one giant southbound HV export corridor and not one mega-dam program. It is a portfolio of nodes that can scale independently and learn from each other. A conceptual chain shown on a poster or Showcase is a **network vision**, not a surveyed fibre route, road, transmission line or selected sequence of projects. ================================================================================================ FILE: Future-AI-Compute.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Future AI Compute **Status:** Market/use-case research **As of:** 2026-08-31 **Canonical basis:** responsible-tenancy policy and International 12 research portfolio **Public limits:** no demand forecast or named prospect is treated as committed demand AI/HPC and other high-density workloads may create demand for power-rich infrastructure, but future market size is not a validated Kristal Farms fact. ## Workload categories under research The international strategy prioritizes workloads that can operate effectively away from metropolitan edge latency, including: - large model training; - scientific/HPC workloads; - batch processing; - jurisdiction-controlled/private cloud capacity; - other high-density compute whose business value is compatible with Canadian/northern placement. ## Eligibility comes before customer category The project should not use a generic list such as “governments, hyperscalers and universities” as though all members of those categories are automatically acceptable. Actual tenancy depends on: - jurisdiction posture under the adopted policy; - legal counterparty and beneficial ownership/control; - sanctions/trade/export-control review; - institutional-purpose risk; - reseller/subtenant structure; - technical requirements; - direct commercial evidence. ## Requirements to validate For any real prospect, collect: - MW and expansion path; - density/cooling; - module form factor; - latency/peering requirements; - fibre capacity/redundancy/SLA; - curtailment tolerance; - data-residency/sovereignty needs; - hardware-control preference; - contract/offtake requirements; - maintenance/security needs. The infrastructure should evolve across compute generations rather than betting the project on one accelerator roadmap or forecast. See [[International Portfolio Research]]. ================================================================================================ FILE: Glossary.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Glossary **As of:** 2026-09-01 **Kristal Farms** — northern renewable-energy/compute/fibre/logistics architecture documented in this wiki. **Serviced compute pad** — site/pad providing physical interfaces such as power, cooling, fibre, security, telemetry and logistics while the tenant-control boundary is defined by contract. **Tenant-controlled encrypted environment** — normative confidentiality model in which tenant private systems remain encrypted/content-blind to routine Kristal Farms operations. **Black-box tenancy** — commercial shorthand for a tenant-controlled encrypted environment; not immunity from law, safety access or infrastructure telemetry. **Content-blind operations** — normal operation of power, cooling, facility, fibre and service telemetry without routine access to private application content or decryption keys. **Responsible international tenancy** — project framework that screens jurisdiction, legal counterparty, beneficial ownership/effective control, sanctions/trade exposure and institutional risk before access. **Eligibility state** — categorical counterparty state: `ELIGIBLE`, `ENHANCED_DUE_DILIGENCE`, `SUSPENDED` or `INELIGIBLE`. **Counterparty** — the specific legal entity and control structure seeking a commercial relationship; not a nationality or population. **Effective control** — persons/entities exercising real control over a legal counterparty, distinct from nominal registration alone. **International 12** — 12-slot `RESEARCH_ONLY` planning portfolio used to test prospective tenant/operator requirement profiles; not 12 commitments. **Distributed international resilience** — diversification across tenants, jurisdictions, carriers, ports and sites to reduce concentration risk; not a defence alliance or guarantee. **Community-priority interface** — electrical/governance arrangement ensuring critical community loads take priority over interruptible compute. **Generation-adjacent compute** — compute located near generating works. **Community/port-adjacent compute** — compute located near community/logistics/heat users, with a longer electrical connection to generation. **Hybrid architecture** — split of compute/shared infrastructure between generation-side and community-side locations. **Mine infrastructure reuse** — research into reusing underground/industrial or surface mining assets as optional enabling infrastructure. **Surface brownfield reuse** — reuse of disturbed mine/industrial land, roads, camps, workshops or utilities where current condition, rights and restoration obligations permit. **STEP / pumped-storage hydropower (PSH)** — storage that pumps water uphill and later generates on release; shifts energy in time and does not create net generation. **Mine-pit reservoir** — open-pit excavation researched as a possible upper/lower storage reservoir; a pit is not automatically usable storage. **Usable cycled volume** — water volume that can actually be moved between defined operating levels; not total pit excavation volume. **Hydraulic head** — water-level/energy difference for a defined hydraulic system; mine depth is not automatically head. **Evidence matrix** — record of research maturity by dimension; not a site score. **Terrain drop** — change in elevation over an analyzed reach; not project hydraulic head. **Project head** — engineering hydraulic head for a defined intake/conveyance/powerhouse concept. **Design flow** — engineering hydrologic input selected for a defined project concept; not automatically derived from a mean-flow number. **Remaining unpriced Kristal Farms budget** — break-even envelope remaining after selected reference components and an explicitly scoped digital-export proxy; not project savings. **UNPRICED** — explicit state for a cost not yet known; never silently treated as zero. **Corridor** — research grouping unless real infrastructure geometry is separately evidenced; not automatically a route. **Implemented workspace** — Observatory domain surface with a dedicated current component/behavior. **Scaffold workspace** — governed Observatory shell/framing exists, but domain functionality is not yet a completed product. ================================================================================================ FILE: Governance-FPIC-and-Community-Benefits.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Governance, FPIC and Community Benefits Kristal Farms is designed as an integration process rather than an infrastructure imposition. A corridor/site dossier must establish the actual Indigenous/community governance and rights context, including who has authority to decide, what consultation/consent processes apply, and what ownership/benefit options are locally acceptable. ## Community energy Where community infrastructure is involved, essential/critical community loads have priority over interruptible compute. ## Possible benefit/ownership structures These are design directions, not predetermined legal answers: - community/public/fiduciary ownership of strategic land or infrastructure; - leases/use rights rather than unrestricted strategic-asset sale; - local procurement/training/employment; - community energy allocations; - revenue/equity/benefit-sharing structures; - transparent metrics and independent remedy. The atlas does not infer consent or support from geographic proximity. ================================================================================================ FILE: Harmonious-Deployment.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Harmonious Deployment Kristal Farms should scale through measured learning rather than attempting to build the full northern-network vision at once. ## Operating loop **design/build → operate → measure → correct → standardize → replicate or scale** ## Pilot geography Côte-Nord is the preferred pilot/learning geography because it can combine northern operating conditions with comparatively practical access, services and marine logistics. The pilot is intended to prove the architecture and operating model, not to pre-select the long-term northern deployment geography. Longer-term deployment is oriented farther north through Québec and Labrador, where road and high-voltage remoteness may create the strongest structural advantage. ## What a pilot should prove - generation performance and seasonal constraints; - protected community/critical-load interface where relevant; - serviced compute-pad interfaces; - cooling, metering and security operations; - fibre reliability, capacity and serviceability; - marine/local logistics and maintenance; - environmental and rights/governance processes; - workforce and operating model; - actual construction and operating costs; - whether optional heat recovery has a justified use; - whether digital export retains an advantage after project-specific costs are included. No energy technology, compute location or heat-reuse sequence is universally prescribed. Generation-side, community/port-side and split compute layouts remain valid depending on site evidence. ## Decision gate After each major stage, the next decision should be explicit: > **repeat, adjust, scale, relocate, pause or stop.** Compute can expand pad by pad. Generation should expand only where the evidence supports it. ================================================================================================ FILE: Heat-Recovery-and-Community-Energy.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Heat Recovery and Community Energy Heat is a **valuable co-product**, not the main siting rule. ## Community energy priority Where a village is involved, the project should explicitly protect community/critical electrical loads ahead of lower-priority or interruptible compute. ## Heat-use decision Recover heat where: > **value of useful heat > recovery + distribution cost/complexity/losses** Generation-side compute may support nearby plant buildings, workshops, worker facilities, greenhouses or new buildings. Village-side compute may support a broader district-heating network. If the village is several kilometres away, supplying clean electricity may be more rational than building a long thermal network. The project should measure useful heat actually consumed rather than treating recoverable heat as automatic benefit. ================================================================================================ FILE: Historical-Hydro-Economic-Evidence.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Historical Hydro Economic Evidence Historical Coastal Labrador hydro studies are retained because they reveal an important methodological issue: a remote plant can look uneconomic when the local isolated load is too small to absorb its potential output. Some older analyses therefore differed materially depending on whether economics were constrained by then-existing community load or evaluated against fuller proposed plant output. This is conceptually relevant to Kristal Farms because flexible compute changes the possible local-load context. It does **not** justify taking an old cost/LUEC figure and calling it current Kristal Farms economics. Historical values retain their original year, currency, study assumptions and status. ================================================================================================ FILE: Home.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Kristal Farms **Status:** Public explanatory wiki **As of:** 2026-09-01 **Canonical basis:** `docs/00-control/PROJECT_STATE.md` (working baseline 2026-08-31), current control documents, application code and controlled research artifacts **Public limits:** unranked screening; no selected site, mine or committed tenant Kristal Farms is a northern renewable-energy and compute infrastructure architecture built around one central inversion: > **Bring flexible compute to new remote renewable generation, consume the electricity locally, and export digital value by fibre rather than defaulting to long roads and long high-voltage export corridors.** The reference architecture is: > **new generation → protected community interface → flexible compute → fibre export** Community and critical loads have priority over interruptible compute. Compute can be generation-side, community/port-side or split between both according to electrical distance, fibre, logistics, operations, environment, security, useful heat and host-community preference. ![Conceptual northern corridor reference](images/kristal_farms_corridor_nordique_integre_design_reference.png) *Conceptual design reference only. It is not a mapped route, selected corridor or engineering plan.* ## What changed in the 2026-08-31 working baseline The project now has three additional public-facing workstreams: 1. **responsible international tenancy** — select legal counterparties through jurisdictional eligibility, beneficial-ownership/control review, sanctions/trade screening, contract and periodic re-review while keeping private tenant compute content-blind to routine operations; 2. **international mobilization and distributed resilience** — validate demand from multiple eligible jurisdictions and reduce concentration across tenants, carriers, ports and sites without implying a military alliance, extraterritoriality or a defence guarantee; 3. **mine infrastructure reuse and pumped-storage research** — test underground/industrial reuse, surface brownfields and mine-pit storage as optional research pathways without treating a mine marker as project feasibility. ## Start here - [[Project State]] - [[Project Direction]] - [[Responsible International Tenancy]] - [[International Mobilization and Distributed Resilience]] - [[International Portfolio Research]] - [[Mine Infrastructure Reuse]] - [[Mine Pit Pumped Storage]] - [[Energy Hosting Architecture]] - [[Corridor Dossier Strategy]] - [[Explorer and Showcase]] - [[What Is Validated and What Is Being Tested]] - [[FAQ]] - [[Résumé français|Resume Francais]] ## Observatory The current Observatory shell exposes five governed workspaces: 1. **Northern Atlas** — implemented evidence/geography workspace; 2. **Corridors** — scaffold for decision-grade corridor dossiers; 3. **International 12** — implemented research-portfolio explorer; 4. **Economics** — scaffold for scenario/sensitivity work; 5. **Evidence** — scaffold for provenance/control work. Five workspaces do **not** mean five finished products. The wiki distinguishes implemented surfaces from scaffolds and target product direction. ## Current evidence posture The repository separates facts, observations, derived values, assumptions and unknowns. No active site is selected. Project head, design flow, buildable MW, environmental acceptability, Indigenous/community authorization, heavy-project-cargo feasibility, exact fibre route/capacity, supplier quotations, mine availability and bankable economics remain dossier-level work. The international research portfolio is also not a commitment list. No named organization should be described as interested, eligible, contracted or part of a coalition without direct attributable evidence. ## Interpretation rule A point is not a dam site. A community centroid is not a port coordinate. A managed marine facility is not heavy-lift certification. Terrain drop is not project head. Historical mine power is not current available capacity. Mine depth is not hydraulic head. Pit volume is not usable cycled volume. Planning margin is not compute capacity. A benchmark is not a site cost. Evidence coverage is not site quality. ================================================================================================ FILE: Human-Infrastructure.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Human Infrastructure Human infrastructure is a **long-term layer**, not required to justify the first energy/compute node. If the physical infrastructure creates durable value, it can support better northern housing, training, health, food systems, recreation, civic space and professional capacity. The immediate project relevance is practical: - train and retain technicians/operators; - improve construction/maintenance capability; - create predictable worker rotation/logistics; - build applied northern engineering knowledge that compounds across nodes. Broader settlement/university concepts should remain subordinate in early government/public packages until the core energy/compute architecture is demonstrated. ================================================================================================ FILE: Hydro-Resource-Atlas.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Hydro Resource Atlas The Hydro Resource Atlas is the structured research bridge between broad northern resource geography and future site dossiers. ## Scope The current canonical baseline includes 24 river/station targets spanning Côte-Nord/Basse-Côte-Nord, Nunavik and Labrador. WSC station geometry is treated as station geometry only. ## Source hierarchy - WSC/ECCC for hydrometric stations and basin references; - GRHQ for Québec hydrography where appropriate; - Canada1Water/NHN for national/Labrador hydrography and cross-border reconciliation; - HRDEM for terrain; - HYDAT/CEHQ and documented studies for hydrologic observations. ## Evidence matrix Each river is tracked across dimensions such as hydrology, terrain, logistics, telecom, energy, environment and governance. The matrix measures **what is documented**, not site merit. A river can appear prominently because it has more evidence, not because it is more attractive. ================================================================================================ FILE: Hydrology-and-Watershed-Research.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Hydrology and Watershed Research The hydrology program is evidence-first and intentionally refuses to jump from a river name or station to a power claim. ## Current baseline - 24 WSC river/station targets represented canonically; - official station positions and metadata preserved; - source contracts/pipelines for basin geometry, hydrography, terrain and HYDAT observations; - versioned observation-series and derivation model in the Kristal Farms application data model. ## What remains missing in the current evidence set Full official basin/river geometry and real HYDAT time series were not completely materialized because external network/binary access was blocked. Therefore the research baseline does **not** assert: - connected project reach; - engineering head; - design flow; - firm energy; - buildable MW. Hydrology observations, historical study summaries and derived methods remain distinguishable in the Evidence Panel. ================================================================================================ FILE: Infrastructure-Status-2026.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Infrastructure Status — 2026 Research Snapshot The research model distinguishes **operating, seasonal, planned, funded, studied, tendered and withdrawn** infrastructure states. Examples that motivated this rule include: - evolving Route 138 segment status on the Lower North Shore; - operating versus planned/interim Nunavik fibre phases; - Bell withdrawal from the earlier North Labrador broadband implementation; - seasonal Labrador ferry programs; - marine feasibility/upgrades that are funded or tendered but not necessarily completed. A public map should never collapse these into one generic “infrastructure exists” symbol. The 2026 status is a dated evidence snapshot; future corridor dossiers must refresh it. ================================================================================================ FILE: International-Learning-and-Universities.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # International Learning and Universities Education is an adjacent long-term opportunity, not part of the first-line Kristal Farms energy case. A possible progression is: **technical training → applied research → visiting students/researchers → joint credentials → potential accredited institutional structures** Northern learning should be compatible with online-first delivery so remote residents are not required to relocate far south simply to access education. A separate mobile-campus concept imagines fixed campuses plus a circulating ship that can also carry workers, maintenance crews, passengers and freight. Kristal Farms may be compatible with that regional mobility logic, but this wiki **does not claim a formal partnership or authorization with Maison des Savoirs or any other external educational organization.** ================================================================================================ FILE: International-Mobilization-and-Distributed-Resilience.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # International Mobilization and Distributed Resilience **Status:** Active strategic direction, subject to commercial/technical/environmental/legal/government validation **As of:** 2026-08-31 **Canonical basis:** `docs/10-core/strategy/PLAN_MOBILISATION_INTERNATIONALE_KRISTAL_FARMS_FR.md`, owner direction, WS-17 **Public limits:** no government commitment, coalition, security guarantee, selected site or committed tenant is established ## International thesis Kristal Farms seeks to create new northern renewable capacity, consume most of it locally with flexible compute and transport digital value by fibre. The partner proposition is: > **You keep control of your compute. Kristal Farms develops the renewable physical, marine and telecom environment that allows it to operate in Canada.** ## Site doctrine International ensembles should be researched around five dominant conditions: 1. new renewable generation near the campus; 2. local consumption of the power by compute; 3. practical port/marine access; 4. high-capacity standard telecom with route, redundancy, SLA and repair model to be validated; 5. comparatively low ecological sensitivity — a hypothesis to prove with current evidence, not an authorization shortcut. Existing dams are not the intended long-term supply base. Existing service may support construction only where appropriate, available and authorized. ## Standard telecom, not a Kristal proprietary network Kristal Farms can define service needs for a multi-operator digital backbone, but carriers operate the transport technologies. Depending on evidence and demand, requirements may include dark fibre, wavelengths, Ethernet/IP or other standard services, diverse physical routes, repair arrangements and multiple interconnection points. There is no required shared tenant data plane or proprietary Kristal transmission format. ## Four resilience layers ### Energy / physical - distributed generation and campus blocks; - local consumption near generation; - phased/modular expansion; - marine access and varied logistics chains; - less dependence on one long electrical export corridor. ### Telecom - multiple carriers/routes where feasible; - standard transport services; - repair/spares strategy for northern conditions; - no mandatory shared tenant application network. ### Commercial - multiple eligible tenants/jurisdictions; - independently controlled tenant modules; - ability to replace/expand blocks without redesigning the whole portfolio; - lower dependence on one buyer or market. ### Political / diplomatic Several independent international commercial interests may increase attention to continuity/restoration during a disruption. This is only a bounded resilience hypothesis. It does **not** establish: - a military or collective-defence alliance; - a legal equivalence between an attack on Kristal Farms and an attack on a tenant’s home country; - extraterritorial status; - guaranteed intervention by a foreign government; - immunity from Canadian law. Use **distributed international resilience** or **international stakeholder diversification** until actual agreements support stronger language. ## Mobilization phases ### A — Demand signal Obtain direct requirements exchanges and preferably 2–3 non-binding expressions of interest from eligible organizations. ### B — Canadian coordination Present attributable demand, constraints and potential Canadian physical investment to the relevant Québec/Canada interfaces. ### C — Telecom and ports Ask carriers and marine/logistics operators to validate routes, capacity, redundancy, repair models, offload constraints and enabling upgrades. ### D — Site dossiers Apply the doctrine: **new generation + local compute + marine access + fibre + evidenced environmental/rights/governance fit**. ### E — Pilot Build a learning-scale ensemble designed to demonstrate black-box tenancy, marine logistics, local generation and digital transport. ### F — Replication Add ensembles only as real tenant requirements and site evidence mature, avoiding dependence on one tenant, jurisdiction, port, carrier or technology. ## When the word “coalition” becomes defensible Before describing an established international coalition, there should be multiple eligible counterparties from distinct jurisdictions, attributable interest/agreements, a verifiable Canadian cooperation framework, continuity architecture without a single indispensable tenant/link and legally reviewed obligations/limits. Until then, use **international portfolio under research** or **international coalition strategy**. See [[International Portfolio Research]], [[Responsible International Tenancy]] and [[Fibre as the Export Corridor]]. ================================================================================================ FILE: International-Portfolio-Research.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # International Portfolio Research **Status:** `RESEARCH_ONLY` working artifact **As of:** 2026-08-31 **Canonical basis:** `research/commercial/international_portfolio_12.yaml`, `data/publish/current/international_portfolio_public.json`, International 12 Observatory component **Public limits:** 12 planning slots; `commitments_claimed = false`; public artifact is a working update and is not declared in the current canonical publish release manifest The International 12 portfolio is a **demand-research instrument**, not a tenant announcement. ## What the 12 slots mean The portfolio tests a deliberately diversified set of potential tenant/operator profiles and requirement patterns. Inclusion means “worth researching under the policy,” not: - interest in Kristal Farms; - passed final counterparty diligence; - a contract, LOI or reserved capacity; - participation in a coalition; - a selected site or assigned hydro project. ## Current planning candidates The current working public artifact contains these research slots: | Slot | Organization | Home jurisdiction | Research engagement tier | Target role | Current outreach state | |---:|---|---|---|---|---| | 1 | OVHcloud | France | `CORE_OUTREACH` | `ANCHOR_AI_CAMPUS` | `DILIGENCE_REQUIRED` | | 2 | NAVER Cloud | South Korea | `CORE_OUTREACH` | `ANCHOR_AI_CAMPUS` | `DILIGENCE_REQUIRED` | | 3 | SK Telecom / SK Hyper | South Korea | `CORE_OUTREACH` | `AIDC_DEVELOPMENT_PARTNERSHIP` | `DILIGENCE_REQUIRED` | | 4 | KDDI / Telehouse | Japan | `CORE_OUTREACH` | `AIDC_DEVELOPMENT_PARTNERSHIP` | `DILIGENCE_REQUIRED` | | 5 | Verda | Finland | `CORE_OUTREACH` | `FLEXIBLE_TRAINING_NODE` | `DILIGENCE_REQUIRED` | | 6 | Civo | United Kingdom | `CORE_OUTREACH` | `SELECTIVE_SOVEREIGN_NODE` | `DILIGENCE_REQUIRED` | | 7 | Sakura Internet | Japan | `SECONDARY_OUTREACH` | `FLEXIBLE_TRAINING_NODE` | `DILIGENCE_REQUIRED` | | 8 | IONOS | Germany | `SECONDARY_OUTREACH` | `SELECTIVE_SOVEREIGN_NODE` | `DILIGENCE_REQUIRED` | | 9 | Firmus Technologies | Australia | `STRATEGIC_EXPLORATION` | `AIDC_DEVELOPMENT_PARTNERSHIP` | `DILIGENCE_REQUIRED` | | 10 | Deutsche Telekom / T-Systems | Germany | `SELECTIVE_OUTREACH` | `SELECTIVE_SOVEREIGN_NODE` | `DILIGENCE_REQUIRED` | | 11 | Nebius | Netherlands | `CONDITIONAL_ONLY` | `FLEXIBLE_TRAINING_NODE` | `CONDITIONAL_RING_FENCE` | | 12 | Scaleway / iliad | France | `SELECTIVE_OUTREACH` | `SELECTIVE_SOVEREIGN_NODE` | `DILIGENCE_REQUIRED` | This table mirrors the working artifact and can change as research, policy and direct outreach change. ## Service hypotheses The working artifact tests four offer types: - `ANCHOR_AI_CAMPUS` — firm high-density AI/HPC capacity with staged expansion; - `FLEXIBLE_TRAINING_NODE` — training/HPC/batch load with a firm base plus an optional flexible tranche; - `AIDC_DEVELOPMENT_PARTNERSHIP` — co-development of facility/cooling/network/operations interfaces while Kristal Farms develops the energy/site layer; - `SELECTIVE_SOVEREIGN_NODE` — jurisdiction-controlled/private-cloud deployment where Canadian placement fits sovereignty requirements. These are research offer envelopes, not committed commercial products. ## What outreach must learn Direct engagement should validate: - initial MW and expansion path; - rack/module density and cooling; - installation form factor; - latency and peering markets; - fibre capacity, route diversity and SLA; - curtailment tolerance; - data-residency/sovereignty constraints; - tenant-owned vs supplied hardware; - contract duration/offtake form; - physical maintenance/security requirements; - import/export restrictions on equipment/technology. ## Promotion rule A candidate becomes a real project counterpart only after applicable jurisdiction/counterparty screening, compatible technical/commercial requirements and direct attributable evidence of interest. ## Artifact-status caveat `international_portfolio_public.json` is consumed by the current application and tested, but the canonical public release manifest has not yet been reconciled to declare it. This wiki therefore calls it a **working research artifact**, not a formal released portfolio. See [[Responsible International Tenancy]] and [[Explorer and Showcase]]. ================================================================================================ FILE: Metrics-and-Public-Dashboard.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Metrics and Public Dashboard **Status:** Metric design direction **As of:** 2026-08-31 **Canonical basis:** project operating model, international resilience direction and evidence architecture **Public limits:** metrics must not expose restricted due-diligence files or create hidden site scores Public metrics should emphasize **evidence, operating performance and concentration risk**, not superficial merit scores. ## Physical / operating metrics Potential families include: - energy delivered to community vs compute; - compute curtailment/availability; - seasonal facility PUE; - water consumption; - useful heat actually delivered; - fibre availability/redundancy; - project-cargo/logistics performance; - local employment/training/procurement; - restoration/environmental commitments; - evidence maturity and unresolved research items. ## International concentration metrics At portfolio scale, monitor concentration by: - tenant; - tenant home jurisdiction/control jurisdiction; - carrier/route; - port/logistics chain; - site/generation asset. These are resilience indicators, not geopolitical-security guarantees. ## Diligence status without exposing files A public dashboard may show controlled high-level states such as: - research only; - diligence required; - diligence in progress; - eligible/EDD/suspended/ineligible **only when the applicable policy decision and publication approval are valid**. Do not publish beneficial-ownership dossiers, legal analysis or sensitive screening evidence merely to make a dashboard more detailed. ## Evidence semantics The Observatory model should keep fact, observation, derived value, assumption and unknown distinguishable. “More evidence” must never become a hidden proxy for “better site.” ================================================================================================ FILE: Mine-Infrastructure-Reuse.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Mine Infrastructure Reuse **Status:** Exploratory research / unranked screening **As of:** 2026-08-31 **Canonical basis:** `docs/30-site-screening/mine-reuse/MINE_REUSE_SCREENING_METHOD.md`, `UNDERGROUND_COMPUTE_REUSE.md`, northern mine inventory, WS-16 **Public limits:** no mine is selected, available, safe for occupancy or approved for Kristal Farms Kristal Farms may examine mining assets in three independent roles: 1. **underground / industrial infrastructure reuse**; 2. **surface brownfield reuse**; 3. **mine-pit pumped storage** — covered separately in [[Mine Pit Pumped Storage]]. A mine can fit more than one research role, but each role requires its own evidence. ## Why examine mines A recently closed, suspended or care-and-maintenance mine may retain expensive enabling assets such as: - roads, airstrips, camps, workshops and warehouses; - ramps, shafts and service drifts; - electrical rooms, substations and switchgear; - pumping/dewatering; - ventilation; - communications and safety systems; - disturbed industrial land and utility corridors. This is an **asset-reuse hypothesis**, not a conclusion that compute halls should be underground. ## Recency rule Recency matters more for underground/industrial reuse because maintained assets can degrade, be removed, flood or become part of restoration works. Recent closure is a useful predictor of asset preservation, not proof of: - ownership/access rights; - safe occupation; - structural/geotechnical condition; - current power capacity; - availability to Kristal Farms; - suitability for compute. Older sites remain admissible when current condition is documented. ## “Bunker” claims are not allowed without engineering evidence Being underground does not establish: - blast resistance; - EMP resistance; - high-security certification; - disaster survivability; - code-compliant occupied use. Use terms such as **subsurface compute reuse** or **hardened infrastructure concept** unless dedicated engineering/security evidence supports stronger language. ## Engineering gates Before occupied/compute use, establish at minimum: 1. rock-mass/ground-support and seismic/geotechnical condition; 2. water inflow, pumping duty and failure consequences; 3. ventilation and smoke control; 4. independent egress/emergency response; 5. fire compartmentation/suppression; 6. current electrical capacity, protection, grounding and power quality; 7. complete server heat-rejection path; 8. transport envelope and maintainability; 9. fibre diversity and communications; 10. radon, dust, contaminants and mine-atmosphere hazards; 11. occupancy, mining, restoration and environmental obligations. ## Heat remains first-order Stable underground temperature does not remove server heat. Nearly all IT electrical input becomes heat that must be rejected through an engineered sink. Underground concepts need a full heat and failure-mode model. ## Surface brownfield reuse Roads, camps, pads, utility corridors or buildings count as reusable only when current evidence confirms they still exist, are in usable condition and can legally be repurposed without conflicting with closure/restoration duties. ## Critical semantics - historical power demand ≠ current available capacity; - mine depth ≠ project hydraulic head; - “care and maintenance” ≠ available for Kristal Farms; - underground space ≠ safe building; - restoration liability/land/mining titles/acquisition rights require separate evidence. ## Research reference: Renard The current controlled research treats Renard as a **modern infrastructure analogue**, not an available Kristal Farms candidate. Its recent care-and-maintenance state and documented underground/electrical/pumping/hoisting/camp/powerhouse assets demonstrate the kind of infrastructure that can survive shutdown, while the current acquisition/redevelopment context demonstrates why availability must be checked. ## Promotion gate A mine-related record may enter a corridor/site dossier only when there is source-backed ownership/lifecycle, geometry/infrastructure condition, restoration/environment, rights/community context, current power/telecom evidence, engineering questions and explicit conflicts/unknowns. Promotion means **deeper study**, never selection. ## External source anchors carried from the canonical research - Québec mining-activity maps: https://www.quebec.ca/en/agriculture-environment-and-natural-resources/mining/mining-data-maps/maps-mining-activities - Québec abandoned-mine restoration program: https://www.quebec.ca/en/agriculture-environment-and-natural-resources/mining/mining-reclamation/restoration-abandoned-mining-site/work-plan-investments - Québec mine-site reclamation context: https://www.quebec.ca/agriculture-environnement-et-ressources-naturelles/mines/restauration-miniere/a-propos - Renard option announcement (Li-FT Power, 2026-06-24): https://www.li-ft.com/news/lift-enters-into-binding-call-option-agreement-for-the-acquisition-of-the-renard-mine-site - Renard court approval (Li-FT Power, 2026-07-14): https://www.li-ft.com/news/court-approves-option-to-acquire-the-renard-mine-site See [[Mine Pit Pumped Storage]], [[Environmental Design and Site Selection]] and [[Risks and Go No Go Gates]]. ================================================================================================ FILE: Mine-Pit-Pumped-Storage.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Mine-Pit Pumped Storage **Status:** Research hypothesis / unranked screening **As of:** 2026-08-31 **Canonical basis:** `docs/30-site-screening/mine-reuse/MINE_RESERVOIR_PUMPED_STORAGE.md`, mine inventory, mine-reuse tests **Public limits:** no storage site, usable volume, head, water balance, geotechnical acceptability or system value is established Open-pit mines can be researched as existing excavations for pumped-storage hydropower (PSH; **STEP** in French). A pit might serve as an upper or lower reservoir. ## Configurations under research - paired mine pits; - mine pit + purpose-built reservoir; - mine pit + freshwater basin, subject to water/ecology constraints; - elevated coastal pit + ocean lower reservoir using seawater. ## Old open pits remain eligible Unlike underground infrastructure reuse, recent closure is not the key criterion for reservoir research. An old/historical pit can remain relevant if geometry, usable water volume, reservoir separation, rock stability, hydrogeology, environment, rights/governance and system value are credible. Mine age is metadata, not an automatic rejection threshold. ## Physics discipline For screening: ```text E = ρ g h V ``` The key inputs are **actual hydraulic level difference** and **usable cycled volume**. Therefore: - mine depth ≠ hydraulic head; - total pit volume ≠ usable operating volume; - a flooded pit ≠ reservoir permission/feasibility; - gross physics energy ≠ usable delivered storage. Real storage depends on operating levels, losses, dead storage, waterways, equipment and round-trip efficiency. ## Pumped storage does not create generation STEP shifts energy in time and consumes more electricity while pumping than it later returns. It is useful only when a defined system need justifies it, for example: - firming variable renewable generation; - reserves/fast response; - weak-grid or islanded operations; - improving use of a generation asset or interconnection; - moving energy between periods with different system value. A mine reservoir does **not** solve a generation shortage. ## Geotechnical and environmental gates Repeated fill/drawdown can affect: - pit-wall stability and pore pressure; - seepage and groundwater; - waste rock/tailings; - acid-rock drainage and contaminant mobilization; - water chemistry; - fisheries, habitat and downstream/marine systems; - closure/restoration obligations. For seawater concepts, corrosion, liners, groundwater salinity, marine intake/outfall, biofouling and marine rights/permitting become first-order issues. ## GIS research is not feasibility A first pass may map pit geometry, lifecycle, elevations, rough usable-volume hypotheses, distance between reservoirs, terrain profile, power/telecom/logistics context and environmental/rights constraints. Thresholds such as elevation or distance to coast are **research filters only**, not feasibility standards. ## External reference semantics The controlled research uses Kidston (Australia) as evidence that old mine pits can be central pumped-storage infrastructure and the Okinawa Yanbaru demonstration as evidence that seawater pumped storage is technically possible. These are references, not proof that a northern Québec/Labrador mine is suitable. ## Northern inventory posture Historical open pits around Schefferville and Lac Jeannine remain valid geometry/brownfield research objects. High-liability sites may stay in the inventory only with explicit contamination/restoration constraints. Recent underground mines are generally more relevant to infrastructure reuse than to the age criterion for storage. No mine is ranked. ## External reference anchors carried from the canonical research - Kidston Pumped Storage Hydro Project: https://genexpower.com.au/250mw-kidston-pumped-storage-hydro-project/ - IEA Hydropower — Okinawa seawater pumped-storage case study: https://www.ieahydro.org/media/c522ecf0/Annex_VIII_CaseStudy0101_Okinawa_SeawaterPS_Japan.pdf - Québec abandoned-mine reclamation context: https://www.quebec.ca/en/agriculture-environment-and-natural-resources/mining/mining-reclamation/restoration-abandoned-mining-site/reclaim-abandoned-mine-site - Québec mine-site reclamation requirements: https://www.quebec.ca/agriculture-environnement-et-ressources-naturelles/mines/restauration-miniere/a-propos See [[Mine Infrastructure Reuse]], [[Research Layers and Map Data]] and [[Risks and Go No Go Gates]]. ================================================================================================ FILE: North-Labrador-Telecom-Research.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # North Labrador Telecom Research North Labrador telecom evidence contains a status conflict that the application data model preserves rather than hiding. The earlier Bell-backed project must not be shown as a completed data-centre-grade backbone after Bell's withdrawal. Administrative funding records and later budget references may persist, but they do not by themselves identify the final provider, technology, route, capacity or completion state. A corridor dossier therefore needs current evidence for: - provider and ownership; - fibre/microwave/satellite segments; - route and built assets; - capacity and redundancy; - latency/outage history; - wholesale/dedicated service availability; - upgrade schedule and cost. The atlas can represent “telecom status unresolved” without drawing a fictional backbone. ================================================================================================ FILE: Nunavik-Marine-Infrastructure-Research.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Nunavik Marine Infrastructure Research Current regional evidence supports the existence of a managed marine-infrastructure system across Nunavik communities. It does **not** establish identical physical capability at every location. The research model therefore separates: 1. managed marine-port/service context; 2. exact facility geometry and dimensions; 3. load/handling capability; 4. specific project-cargo acceptance. Facility-specific values remain unknown until sourced. A Nunavik port symbol should mean “marine infrastructure/service context exists,” not “turbine/transformer ready.” Regional feasibility and upgrade programs are useful evidence, but funded/tendered/studied infrastructure must remain distinct from completed assets. ================================================================================================ FILE: Pilot-Geography-and-Expansion.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Pilot Geography and Expansion ## Pilot / learning geography **Côte-Nord** is the preferred pilot geography. A pilot should learn quickly, so access to ports, contractors, services, communications and marine logistics matters even if the long-term structural advantage is strongest farther north. ## Long-term expansion The resource thesis extends into northern Québec and Labrador, where lack of roads and long electrical-export requirements can create a larger contrast between conventional export and local digital-value export. ## Pilot objective The first project does not need to prove the entire northern-network vision. It should prove the architecture: - new generation integration; - community-priority interface; - serviced compute pad; - cold-climate operations; - fibre service; - marine/ground logistics; - measured economics; - governance and environmental process. Then: **design/build → operate → measure → correct → standardize → replicate.** ================================================================================================ FILE: Port-Capability-and-Heavy-Logistics-Research.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Port Capability and Heavy Logistics Research The logistics research establishes a critical distinction: > **marine access ≠ wharf capability ≠ project-cargo approval** Where authoritative sailing directions or operator/government sources publish facility dimensions, load limits, ramps or services, those facts can support screening. They still do not certify a specific transformer, turbine, crane or compute module. A future project-cargo dossier must verify current structural condition, owner approval, vessel requirements, bathymetry/tides, transfer method, laydown, local-road geometry, axle/bridge/culvert limits, ice/weather windows and upgrade cost. No generic `heavy_lift_ready=true` field is authorized from marine-service context alone. ================================================================================================ FILE: Ports-Maritime-Logistics-and-Mobile-Campus.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Ports, Maritime Logistics and Mobile Campus Marine logistics is a core part of the northern architecture because heavy equipment, containers, workers, parts, food and community freight can often move by sea without requiring a continuous new road corridor. ## Logistics questions A community with marine service is not automatically a project port. A corridor dossier must verify: - berth/ramp geometry and depth; - deck/axle/ground-bearing capacity; - cargo-vessel compatibility; - crane/offload method; - laydown area; - bridge/road/culvert limits from wharf to site; - ice/navigation/weather windows; - upgrade scope and ownership approval. ## Mobile campus / transport concept A separate long-term educational concept imagines fixed campuses plus a circulating ship that could carry students, teachers, workers, maintenance crews, passengers and freight. Kristal Farms can be **compatible with** such shared regional mobility infrastructure, but this wiki does not imply any formal partnership or authorization with an external educational organization. The strategic value is frequency: education, worker rotation and freight can reinforce the same regional transport loop. ================================================================================================ FILE: Project-Direction.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Project Direction **Status:** Current project direction **As of:** 2026-08-31 **Canonical basis:** `docs/00-control/PROJECT_STATE.md`, `docs/10-core/strategy/PLAN_MOBILISATION_INTERNATIONALE_KRISTAL_FARMS_FR.md` **Public limits:** direction is subject to project-specific technical, environmental, legal, commercial and community evidence ## Core thesis Kristal Farms tests whether remote renewable resources can be developed more effectively when flexible digital load is brought to the energy and digital value is exported by fibre. The structural advantage is not universal. It must be demonstrated corridor by corridor. ## Geography - **Côte-Nord** remains the pilot/learning geography because it can combine northern operating conditions with comparatively practical logistics and services. - The longer-term resource thesis extends through **northern Québec and Labrador**, where remoteness from roads and major electrical corridors can create a stronger structural contrast. - No community, river, mine or corridor is the selected project. ## Physical doctrine for international ensembles The international workstream adds a five-part site doctrine: 1. **new renewable generation** developed for the site, primarily hydro where technically, environmentally and socially justified; 2. **local consumption** by flexible compute rather than default electrical export; 3. **practical marine access** for heavy equipment, modules, parts and construction logistics; 4. **high-capacity standard telecom**, with capacity, route, redundancy, SLA and repair model to be validated; 5. **comparatively low ecological sensitivity**, treated as a hypothesis to prove rather than a shortcut around field study, rights or authorization. Existing supply may support construction where appropriate and available, but existing dams are not the long-term commercial resource thesis. ## Energy and compute sequence A site may stage enabling energy and compute over time. The canonical international strategy gives an example sequence of temporary construction support, small new hydro and later main hydro/cascade buildout, but that sequence is only a reference architecture and must not be imposed where site evidence supports another approach. ## Tenant-control model Kristal Farms defines the physical service boundary. Depending on contract, tenants may bring/control their own servers, accelerators, storage, private networking, modules, operating systems, models, data, logs and keys. The project does not require a proprietary data protocol or a shared tenant data plane. Standard carrier services and tenant architectures remain the default. ## Responsible admission before privacy The commercial sequence is: > **jurisdictional eligibility → counterparty due diligence → contractual eligibility → tenant-controlled encrypted environment** The operator governs **who receives access** through identity/control, sanctions/trade, responsible-business and contract controls. It does not enforce commercial values through routine inspection of private encrypted workload content. See [[Responsible International Tenancy]]. ## Distributed resilience The target portfolio reduces dependence on a single: - tenant; - home jurisdiction; - telecom carrier or route; - port/logistics chain; - site or generation asset. This can improve commercial and operational resilience. It may also create broader international stakeholder attention during disruption, but it is not a military alliance, collective-defence commitment, extraterritorial status or guarantee of foreign-government intervention. ## Mobilization sequence 1. validate direct tenant requirements and demand signals; 2. coordinate relevant Québec/Canada interfaces; 3. validate telecom and marine feasibility; 4. build controlled corridor/site dossiers; 5. deploy a learning-scale pilot; 6. replicate only as tenant demand and site evidence mature. Before multiple attributable agreements exist, use **international portfolio under research** or **international coalition strategy**, not “established coalition.” ## Community energy rule Existing community grids remain protected infrastructure, not assumed multi-megawatt compute supply. > **new generation → protected community interface → community priority load + flexible compute → fibre export** Compute is curtailed before essential community service. ## Mine-reuse direction Mine reuse is optional. It may reduce new-build scope where current evidence supports reusable underground/industrial assets, brownfield infrastructure or pumped-storage geometry. It never overrides a stronger energy/fibre/community corridor simply because that corridor lacks a mine. ## Heat and network Heat is a useful co-product when a real thermal sink justifies recovery/distribution. Fibre carries digital value; marine logistics move people, equipment and parts; local electrical interties provide only the scope justified by the site. ## Governance Screening remains unranked. Rights, environmental review, community choice, counterparty governance and anti-capture design are gates, not decorative overlays on a technical ranking. ================================================================================================ FILE: Project-State.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Project State **Status:** Active research and development baseline **As of:** 2026-08-31 working baseline **Public release:** `2026.08.30` **Canonical basis:** `docs/00-control/PROJECT_STATE.md`, `docs/00-control/WORKSTREAMS.md`, `RELEASE_MANIFEST.json` **Public limits:** not an engineering approval, environmental conclusion, community authorization, market forecast or investment decision ## Two dates that must not be collapsed The current public release manifest remains **2026.08.30**. The controlled project state and newer workstreams have a **2026-08-31 working baseline**. This wiki uses the working baseline for current direction while preserving the release date where release artifacts still say `2026.08.30`. ## Core project thesis Kristal Farms tests whether some remote renewable resources can be developed more effectively by bringing flexible compute to the energy and exporting digital value by fibre rather than defaulting to long road and high-voltage export corridors. > **new remote generation → protected community interface → flexible local compute → fibre export** Community and critical loads have priority over interruptible compute. No active site is ranked or selected. ## Physical architecture Three compute layouts remain valid: 1. generation-side; 2. community/port-side; 3. split/hybrid. Selection depends on electrical distance, fibre, marine/ground logistics, maintenance, environment, security, heat value and host-community preference. ## Compute commercial model Kristal Farms can provide serviced compute sites with power handoff, cooling interface, fibre handoff, shared physical security, metering/telemetry and logistics. Tenant hardware/control depends on the contract; the default security model is a tenant-controlled encrypted environment where Kristal Farms does not require routine access to private models, datasets, prompts, application content or decryption keys. See [[Serviced Compute Pads]], [[Secure Compute and Black Box Tenancy]] and [[Responsible International Tenancy]]. ## New workstreams - **WS-15 — International tenancy & counterparty governance:** build a jurisdiction-aware tenant pipeline with eligibility records, due diligence, tenant requirements and contractual controls while preserving content-blind tenancy. - **WS-16 — Mine infrastructure reuse & storage:** study underground/industrial reuse, surface brownfields and mine-pit pumped storage with unranked evidence and reuse-specific gates. - **WS-17 — International mobilization & distributed resilience:** validate international demand, coordinate Canadian/telecom/marine enabling conditions and manage concentration risk without implying a defence alliance. ## International mobilization The active strategic direction seeks to validate a 12-slot planning portfolio around: - new renewable generation consumed locally; - practical marine access; - high-capacity standard telecom; - comparatively low ecological sensitivity that still requires proof; - diversified tenants, jurisdictions, carriers, ports and sites. The next commercial gate is direct demand evidence, ideally including non-binding expressions of interest from multiple eligible organizations. A research candidate is not an interested or committed tenant. ## Mine reuse and storage Mine assets are optional research inputs, not project prerequisites. - Recent closed/suspended/care-and-maintenance underground mines may retain ramps, electrical systems, pumping, ventilation, communications or surface infrastructure worth evaluating. - Open pits of any age may be screened as possible pumped-storage reservoirs if usable volume, head, geotechnics, hydrogeology, environment, rights/governance and system value support deeper study. - Mine age is therefore context, not a universal exclusion rule. No mine record establishes availability, safe occupancy, storage feasibility, current electrical capacity or project rights. ## Screening and evidence Current screening remains: - `screening_mode = unranked`; - `ranking_allowed = false`. The data model and application preserve provenance and explicit unknowns. A missing value is not silently replaced by a proxy. ## What is established - controlled reference architecture and community-priority rule; - PostGIS-oriented canonical data model and governed publication architecture; - 24-river hydrology research set anchored to official WSC station references; - repeatable geometry/hydrology workflows with review gates; - structural economic comparison method for generic architecture stress tests; - accepted content-blind and counterparty-screening ADRs; - an implemented Observatory Northern Atlas and International 12 surface; - mine-reuse screening semantics and exploratory inventory. ## What is not established The repository does not yet establish: - a preferred river, corridor or project site; - authoritative connected river geometry for every research river; - engineering intake/powerhouse alignments, project head, design flow or buildable MW; - environmental acceptability or authorization; - Indigenous/community authorization or benefit arrangements; - exact fibre routes, capacity, redundancy or SLA; - heavy-project-cargo capability at a specific port; - final electrical design or vendor quotations; - a committed international anchor tenant or offtake agreement; - a mine approved or available for Kristal Farms reuse; - an underground mine certified as safe or fit for occupied compute use; - a mine-pit pumped-storage site with validated usable volume, head, water balance, geotechnics, environmental acceptability or system value; - bankable CAPEX/OPEX, NPV or IRR. ## Open control issue The project-control narrative treats responsible international tenancy as current policy, but the machine-readable **r2 jurisdiction schedule** still carries `PROPOSED_C0_ADOPTION`, and decision D-011 remains open. This wiki therefore distinguishes the accepted governance framework from the proposed r2 country-state overlay and does not present that overlay as finally adopted. ================================================================================================ FILE: Public-Repository-and-Confidence-Levels.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Public Repository and Confidence Levels **Status:** Publication discipline **As of:** 2026-08-31 **Canonical basis:** evidence controls, policy/security boundaries and publishing architecture **Public limits:** not all valid project evidence is public evidence Kristal Farms is designed to expose uncertainty while protecting restricted governance/security material. ## Confidence / evidence classes Typical states include: - **authoritative current**; - **historical authoritative**; - **derived**; - **scenario assumption**; - **legacy/unverified**; - **unknown / research required**. ## Public vs restricted classification Before publication, ask whether a record contains: - sensitive counterparty due-diligence evidence; - beneficial ownership/control details; - sanctions/trade/legal working analysis; - private tenant requirements; - exact security/access information; - other data that should remain restricted by policy or contract. The public portfolio should expose only approved derived fields. Eligibility files remain restricted even when a high-level public status is publishable. ## Release discipline A public artifact should have: - a version/date; - provenance/source basis; - status/limits; - a declared place in the applicable publication process. The current International 12 public JSON is consumed by the app but has not yet been reconciled into the canonical public release manifest. Treat it as a working research update until that control is fixed. ## Ranking discipline Legacy site tiers remain excluded from the public community release so the UI cannot silently recreate ranking. Evidence confidence is not merit. The public Observatory should let users inspect source/evidence behind visible facts whenever practical. ================================================================================================ FILE: Quebec-Data-Centre-Regulatory-Context-2026.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Québec Data-Centre Regulatory Context — 2026 **Status:** Regulatory research snapshot **Verified:** 2026-09-01 **Canonical basis:** project regulatory research; official Régie de l'énergie docket **Public limits:** proposed tariff/framework terms are not final decisions unless the regulator says so The official Régie de l'énergie docket **R-4333-2026** was still shown as **“En cours”** at the 2026-09-01 verification point: https://www.regie-energie.qc.ca/fr/participants/dossiers/R-4333-2026 The project research tracks a Hydro-Québec proposal for large data-centre loads, including an indicative average price around **C$0.13/kWh** for loads at or above 5 MW and related selection/allocation rules. In this wiki, those terms remain **proposal/docket context**, not a final regulatory decision. ## Kristal Farms-specific open question Kristal Farms may use new dedicated/local generation rather than requesting the full compute load from the existing provincial distribution system. The legal/regulatory treatment of that architecture is **not assumed**. Current research state: - applicability to dedicated local generation: unknown; - applicability to private/local network configurations: unknown; - utility service/interconnection requirements: project-specific; - selection-process applicability: unresolved; - exemption: **not assumed**. A corridor dossier must obtain current legal/utility analysis for the actual ownership, generation, community-service and compute arrangement. ================================================================================================ FILE: README.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Kristal Farms public wiki This repository is the **curated public explanatory wiki** for the canonical `kristal-farms` project repository. **Wiki sync:** 2026-09-01 **Current controlled project baseline represented:** 2026-08-31 **Current root public release manifest:** 2026.08.30 **Screening:** unranked; `ranking_allowed=false` ## Role The wiki explains current project direction without becoming a second uncontrolled copy of all canonical MkDocs documentation. The canonical repository remains authoritative for: - project-control documents and decisions; - machine-readable policy contracts; - data/database schemas; - research registries and provenance; - code and tests; - published artifacts and release manifests. Wiki pages should summarize those sources, state their dates/status and preserve public limits. ## Current public structure 1. **Start** — state, direction, FAQ and French summary. 2. **Physical architecture** — energy, compute pads, fibre, heat and logistics. 3. **Development and screening** — corridor dossiers, environment/governance and mine reuse/STEP. 4. **International strategy** — responsible tenancy, mobilization, portfolio research, black-box tenancy and distributed resilience. 5. **Observatory and evidence** — five application workspaces, data model, publication and confidence. 6. **Economics and references** — structural frontier, external cases, regulation and glossary. ## Current additions The 2026-08-31 working baseline adds: - responsible international counterparty governance; - international mobilization and distributed resilience; - a 12-slot research portfolio surfaced in the Observatory; - mine infrastructure reuse and mine-pit pumped-storage research; - a five-workspace Observatory shell. ## Status discipline Do not collapse these distinctions: - **public release 2026.08.30** vs **working baseline 2026-08-31**; - accepted governance framework vs **proposed r2 jurisdiction overlay**; - implemented Observatory surfaces vs scaffolds; - prospect research vs commercial commitment; - mine research object vs available/feasible project asset. ## Public anti-promises This wiki does not establish: - a selected site, corridor, mine or hydro project; - a committed international tenant or coalition; - a defence/security guarantee; - a mine certified for occupied compute use; - a feasible pumped-storage project; - bankable project economics. ## Editing rule Each factual page should identify, where practical: - `Status`; - `As of`; - `Canonical basis`; - `Public limits`. Volatile states should be generated or checked from canonical controls rather than hand-maintained in two places. ================================================================================================ FILE: Real-Northern-Project-Logistics-Precedents.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Real Northern Project Logistics Precedents External northern projects provide practical evidence about what major construction actually requires. ## Nain Wind Microgrid Project procurement material documents a logistics chain involving marine transport, southern-port handling/storage, northern transport, local access road and crane/assembly areas. This is valuable because it demonstrates the full chain a remote project must solve: **southern supplier/port → ocean transport → northern offload → storage/laydown → local access → assembly/construction site**. The precedent is explicitly **not** a Kristal Farms site selection and does not prove generic heavy-lift capability for Nain. ================================================================================================ FILE: Remote-Energy-Reference-Cases.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Remote Energy Reference Cases These projects are **external references, not Kristal Farms site selections**. ## Innavik — Inukjuak A 7.5 MW run-of-river project provides a real northern community-renewable reference at useful scale and with community partnership. ## Lac-Robertson — Basse-Côte-Nord Hydro-Québec describes a 21 MW hydro system with diesel backup and local transmission/distribution serving a coastal chain while remaining disconnected from the main transmission grid. It is one of the closest real mini-grid analogues to the regional-chain idea. ## La Romaine / Unamen Shipu connection A 75 km, 34.5 kV line illustrates a valid conventional decarbonization alternative: build an electrical connection rather than colocating a new flexible load. ## Quaqtaq / Puvirnituq wind The regulatory record recognizes energy that cannot all be integrated into local demand and uses an available-renewable-energy mechanism. This is useful evidence that “more local renewable energy than local load can absorb” is a real planning problem. Flexible compute as a sink remains a research hypothesis, not an approved use. ## Nain Wind Microgrid The project provides a current logistics precedent for marine transport, storage, access roads and crane/assembly requirements. It does not make Nain a Kristal Farms priority. ================================================================================================ FILE: Repository-and-Project-Boundaries.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Repository and Project Boundaries ## Canonical repository `kristal-farms` is the single canonical repository for project documentation, data contracts, application code, pipelines, database migrations, research evidence and publishable releases. ## Wiki repository `Kristal_Farms.wiki` is a separate explanatory surface intended for human navigation and public context. It does not replace the canonical repository as the source of data, evidence state or software contracts. ## Authority rule When wiki prose and canonical repository state disagree, the active controlled material in `kristal-farms` governs. Historical and superseded material is retained only for provenance and must not silently re-enter active project direction. ================================================================================================ FILE: Research-Layers-and-Map-Data.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Research Layers and Map Data **Status:** Data-role and publication discipline **As of:** 2026-08-31 **Canonical basis:** application data model, research registries and publish pipelines **Public limits:** research objects do not become map/site claims automatically Kristal Farms preserves raw/intermediate research for provenance, but the application does not treat every research file as a permanent public map layer. ## Data roles - **raw/source** — faithful acquisition/transcription; - **research** — evidence, observations, questions and incomplete objects; - **core** — governed canonical entities/relationships; - **scenario** — explicit assumptions and modeled alternatives; - **publish** — controlled views/releases for the application. ## International governance roles Keep these separate: - **prospect inventory** — public/research candidates and requirement hypotheses; - **restricted eligibility register** — counterparty/control/screening evidence; - **public portfolio artifact** — derived, publication-safe subset. A public portfolio row must not expose restricted diligence files or imply an eligibility decision that has not been made. ## Mine research roles Mine markers are exploratory records. They may contain lifecycle, owner/restoration context, geometry and infrastructure observations, but they do not automatically become corridor/site candidates. Promotion requires source-backed evidence and review against the mine-reuse method. ## Geometry discipline - station point ≠ river; - station point ≠ basin; - community centroid ≠ port/project coordinate; - conceptual corridor ≠ mapped route; - telecom relationship ≠ cable geometry; - mine point/polygon ≠ reusable asset; - pit outline ≠ usable reservoir volume. Where authoritative geometry is unavailable or unreviewed, the correct geometry is `NULL`. ## Publication gate Before public release, check classification, sensitivity, source/provenance, status/date and whether the artifact is declared by the applicable manifest. ================================================================================================ FILE: Responsible-International-Tenancy.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Responsible International Tenancy **Status:** Governance framework current; r2 jurisdiction schedule proposed pending explicit C0 adoption **As of:** 2026-08-31 **Canonical basis:** `docs/00-control/INTERNATIONAL_TENANT_GOVERNANCE.md`, ADR-0021, ADR-0022, `contracts/policy/international-tenant-governance.yaml`, `contracts/policy/jurisdiction-eligibility.yaml` **Public limits:** project policy is not legal advice, a sanctions determination or a judgment about populations Kristal Farms intends to serve international compute demand while retaining the right to decline commercial relationships that do not meet project governance, risk or long-term legitimacy requirements. The governing sequence is: > **jurisdictional eligibility → counterparty due diligence → contractual eligibility → black-box tenancy** The policy governs **who receives access to project infrastructure**. It does not make routine access to private encrypted compute content a condition of tenancy. ## Eligibility states | State | Meaning | Contracting posture | |---|---|---| | `ELIGIBLE` | No identified policy-level barrier after proportionate review. | Normal commercial diligence may proceed. | | `ENHANCED_DUE_DILIGENCE` | Material uncertainty, complex ownership/control, elevated jurisdictional risk or sensitive institutional role. | No binding tenancy until deeper review closes. | | `SUSPENDED` | Eligibility cannot presently be determined or external events require a hold. | New contracting/expansion paused. | | `INELIGIBLE` | Counterparty/control relationship conflicts with an explicit exclusion or unacceptable risk threshold. | No tenancy/offtake/operator agreement. | A state applies to a **specific legal counterparty and control structure at a point in time**. It must not be generalized to individuals based on nationality, ethnicity, religion or other protected characteristics. ## Due diligence before access A proportionate file should establish: - legal name, registration and principal place of business; - ultimate beneficial ownership and effective control; - relevant parent/subsidiary/affiliate relationships; - sanctions/restricted-party screening under applicable Canadian law; - export-control/trade implications when applicable; - source of funds/financing where material; - relevant externally verifiable enforcement, fraud, corruption, human-rights or cyber-abuse findings; - undisclosed government/military/intelligence or prohibited-party relationships where relevant; - reseller/subtenant structure and pass-through controls; - a high-level workload class sufficient for safety, power, cooling, networking and legal classification **without requiring disclosure of private models, datasets, prompts or content**. ## Sensitive institutional roles The controlled policy places a higher review bar on categories such as military/defence entities, intelligence/state-security bodies, population-scale biometric-surveillance providers, high-risk dual-use technology providers and reseller/subtenant aggregators. The decision concerns the counterparty, ownership/control and externally verifiable institutional role — not inspection of encrypted workload content. ## Proposed r2 jurisdiction overlay The machine-readable r2 schedule currently describes a set of `INELIGIBLE` and `SUSPENDED` jurisdictions and defaults non-listed jurisdictions to `ENHANCED_DUE_DILIGENCE`. However, both policy contracts label the r2 schedule **`PROPOSED_C0_ADOPTION`**, and decision D-011 remains unresolved. Therefore: - this wiki does **not** treat the r2 country list as finally adopted; - a future public list must follow the canonical decision record; - a country-level state is a project counterparty-risk control, not a claim about every organization or person in that jurisdiction; - counterparty eligibility does **not** imply a technology-origin embargo. ## Contractual enforcement without content inspection Tenant agreements should rely on representations, warranties, covenants, change-of-control notices, pass-through reseller controls and suspension/termination rights. The project must not defeat encryption to search for possible violations. ## Review triggers Re-review, suspension or termination may be triggered by evidence such as: - sanctions designation or binding legal prohibition; - material beneficial-ownership/control change; - substantiated sanctions evasion or prohibited-party concealment; - material eligibility fraud/misrepresentation; - serious externally verifiable policy conflict; - shared-infrastructure abuse; - legal inability to continue service. ## Records and privacy boundary Eligibility records should capture decision state/date, counterparty/control snapshot, sources, approver, unresolved issues and next review trigger. These are restricted governance records. Public outputs should expose only the policy/status information approved for publication. See [[Secure Compute and Black Box Tenancy]], [[International Mobilization and Distributed Resilience]] and [[International Portfolio Research]]. ================================================================================================ FILE: Resume-Francais.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Résumé français **Statut :** résumé public du baseline de travail **Au :** 31 août 2026 **Base canonique :** état du projet, gouvernance internationale, plan de mobilisation, architecture Observatory et méthode de réutilisation minière **Limites publiques :** aucun site, aucune mine et aucun locataire ne sont sélectionnés ou engagés; le classement reste désactivé ## Idée centrale Kristal Farms est une architecture nordique d'accès à de nouvelles ressources renouvelables. L'idée est de **déplacer une charge informatique flexible vers l'énergie** et d'exporter la valeur produite par fibre, plutôt que de construire automatiquement de longues routes et de longues lignes électriques à haute tension pour transporter l'énergie vers des centres de charge éloignés. > **nouvelle production → interface communautaire protégée → calcul flexible → export par fibre** Les besoins communautaires et critiques ont priorité sur le calcul interruptible. Les serveurs peuvent être près de la production, près du village/port, ou répartis entre les deux. ## Doctrine physique internationale Le nouveau workstream international cherche des ensembles où cinq conditions peuvent être démontrées : 1. nouvelle production renouvelable développée pour le site; 2. consommation locale de la puissance par le calcul; 3. accès maritime/portuaire pratique; 4. télécommunications standards à haute capacité avec route, redondance, SLA et réparation à valider; 5. sensibilité écologique relativement faible **à prouver** avec les études et la gouvernance applicables. Un barrage existant n'est pas la base commerciale du modèle. Une alimentation existante peut éventuellement soutenir le chantier si elle est disponible et autorisée. ## Location internationale responsable Kristal Farms ne traite pas la confidentialité comme une admission automatique. La séquence de gouvernance est : > **admissibilité de la juridiction → diligence de la contrepartie → admissibilité contractuelle → environnement chiffré contrôlé par le locataire** La diligence porte notamment sur l'identité juridique, la propriété bénéficiaire, le contrôle effectif, les sanctions/contrôles commerciaux, les relations de revente/sous-location et les changements de contrôle. Les états sont catégoriels : `ELIGIBLE`, `ENHANCED_DUE_DILIGENCE`, `SUSPENDED`, `INELIGIBLE`. La politique de gouvernance est active, mais la grille juridictionnelle r2 dans les contrats machine-readable reste marquée `PROPOSED_C0_ADOPTION`. Le wiki ne la présente donc pas comme définitivement adoptée. ## Frontière « black box » Kristal Farms exploite l'infrastructure; le locataire contrôle son calcul privé. Les opérations normales peuvent voir les éléments nécessaires au service : puissance, refroidissement, sécurité physique, état réseau agrégé, maintenance, facturation et SLA. Elles ne doivent pas exiger par défaut : - les clés de déchiffrement du locataire; - l'accès routinier au trafic applicatif en clair; - l'inspection des modèles, données, prompts ou sorties; - une surveillance secrète; - une porte dérobée permanente. Les obligations canadiennes, les demandes légales valides et l'accès physique de sécurité restent applicables. ## Portefeuille International 12 Le portefeuille international contient **12 places de planification**, mais `commitments_claimed=false`. Les organisations nommées dans l'artefact de recherche ne sont pas des locataires annoncés. Elles servent à tester des profils de demande, de puissance, de refroidissement, de fibre, de souveraineté des données et de structure contractuelle. Le prochain vrai jalon commercial est d'obtenir des échanges de besoins attribuables et, idéalement, plusieurs manifestations d'intérêt non contraignantes de contreparties admissibles. ## Résilience distribuée Le projet cherche à réduire la concentration sur un seul locataire, pays, transporteur, port ou site. Cette diversification peut améliorer la continuité commerciale et opérationnelle et attirer davantage d'attention internationale lors d'une perturbation majeure. Elle ne crée toutefois : - ni alliance militaire; - ni garantie de défense; - ni extraterritorialité; - ni obligation d'intervention d'un gouvernement étranger. Le terme correct aujourd'hui est **résilience internationale distribuée** ou **portefeuille international recherché**. ## Réutilisation d'infrastructures minières Kristal Farms étudie trois usages indépendants : 1. infrastructures souterraines/industrielles; 2. friches et actifs de surface; 3. fosses minières comme réservoirs possibles de STEP. Une mine récente en entretien peut avoir conservé des rampes, postes électriques, pompes, ventilation, communications, camps ou routes. Cela ne signifie pas qu'elle est disponible, sûre ou adaptée au calcul. Une mine souterraine n'est pas automatiquement un « bunker ». La sécurité, l'occupation, la géotechnique, l'incendie, la ventilation, l'évacuation, le refroidissement et les droits doivent être démontrés. ## STEP / pompage-turbinage Les anciennes fosses restent admissibles à la recherche de stockage. Règles essentielles : - profondeur de mine ≠ hauteur hydraulique; - volume total de fosse ≠ volume utile cyclable; - fosse inondée ≠ réservoir exploitable; - puissance historique ≠ capacité électrique disponible aujourd'hui; - la STEP déplace l'énergie dans le temps et **ne crée pas de production nette**. Aucun site de STEP n'est sélectionné. ## Observatory L'application actuelle expose cinq espaces gouvernés : 1. Northern Atlas — implémenté; 2. Corridors — scaffold; 3. International 12 — implémenté; 4. Economics — scaffold; 5. Evidence — scaffold. Il ne faut donc pas annoncer cinq produits achevés. ## État des preuves Le classement reste désactivé (`ranking_allowed=false`). Un point n'est pas un site de barrage; une station hydrométrique n'est pas un ouvrage; un port géré n'est pas une certification de charge lourde; une mine n'est pas une opportunité de projet; un prospect n'est pas un locataire. Le développement doit se faire par dossiers réels de corridor/site : hydrologie et géométrie officielles, environnement, droits et gouvernance, logistique, fibre, architecture électrique, contreparties, devis et économie de projet. Voir [[Project State]], [[Responsible International Tenancy]], [[International Mobilization and Distributed Resilience]], [[Mine Infrastructure Reuse]] et [[Mine Pit Pumped Storage]]. ================================================================================================ FILE: Risks-and-Go-No-Go-Gates.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Risks and Go / No-Go Gates **Status:** Decision framework **As of:** 2026-08-31 **Canonical basis:** corridor/site dossier controls, international governance and mine-reuse screening method **Public limits:** use explicit reject / hold / advance gates rather than public scores A failed controlling gate should stop or hold a dossier even when another dimension looks attractive. ## Core corridor/site gates ### Resource Is the resource evidence strong enough to justify an engineering concept? Terrain/hydrometric proxies alone are insufficient. ### Environment / rights Can environmental, cumulative-effect, rights-holder/community and authorization requirements be resolved on acceptable terms? ### Logistics Can real project cargo, construction equipment, people and spares reach the site with an evidenced route, facility and operating model? ### Telecom Is the required carrier-grade capacity, route diversity, SLA and repair model commercially and technically available or buildable? ### Electrical architecture Can community priority, generation, protection, backup, curtailment and flexible compute be engineered safely? ### Economics Does the architecture remain competitive after replacing broad benchmarks with project quotations and including all previously `UNPRICED` components? ## International tenancy gate Before binding access: - jurisdiction posture is resolved under the adopted policy; - legal counterparty is identified; - beneficial ownership/effective control is verified; - sanctions/trade/export-control review is complete where applicable; - institutional-purpose risk is reviewed; - reseller/subtenant pass-through controls are verifiable; - contract preserves content-blind tenancy without creating a surveillance backdoor. If the r2 jurisdiction overlay remains proposed, do not treat proposed country states as an adopted contracting decision. ## International demand gate Before sizing a portfolio/site around international demand, obtain attributable requirements exchanges and preferably multiple non-binding expressions of interest from eligible organizations. No portfolio research candidate substitutes for demand evidence. ## Concentration gate A scaled portfolio should monitor dependence on: - one tenant; - one home jurisdiction; - one carrier/route; - one port; - one site/generation asset. Diversification is a resilience control, not a defence guarantee. ## Mine infrastructure gate Before mine reuse enters a real dossier, establish: - owner/responsible party and lifecycle status; - current use/redevelopment conflict; - restoration/environmental obligations; - source-backed infrastructure/geometry condition; - current available electrical capacity rather than historical load; - power/telecom/logistics rights and condition; - occupancy/geotechnical/fire/water/ventilation/heat-rejection questions; - rights-holder/community context. “Underground” alone is not a security or safety certification. ## Pumped-storage gate Before a mine-pit storage concept advances, establish: - usable cycled volume; - actual operating head; - hydraulic distance/waterway concept; - pit-wall/geotechnical stability; - seepage/hydrogeology; - water chemistry/contamination/ARD; - water balance and operating regime; - environmental/rights acceptability; - specific system value for charging/discharge. Pumped storage must not be counted as new net generation. ## Decision output Every dossier should end with one of: - **REJECT** — controlling constraint established; - **HOLD** — material evidence/decision remains unresolved; - **ADVANCE** — enough controlled evidence exists for the next development phase. “Advance” is not final approval. ================================================================================================ FILE: Secure-Compute-and-Black-Box-Tenancy.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Secure Compute and Black-Box Tenancy **Status:** Current confidentiality/security model **As of:** 2026-08-31 **Canonical basis:** `docs/security/TENANT_CONFIDENTIALITY_BOUNDARY.md`, ADR-0021, ADR-0022, `docs/00-control/INTERNATIONAL_TENANT_GOVERNANCE.md` **Public limits:** “black box” means content-blind routine operations, not absence of law, safety controls or infrastructure telemetry > **Select counterparties; do not inspect private compute.** Kristal Farms separates **commercial admission and shared physical operations** from **tenant private digital systems**. ## Admission comes first International access is not automatic. Before a tenancy, anchor-offtake or tenant-operator relationship, the project uses a sequence of: 1. jurisdictional eligibility; 2. legal-counterparty identification; 3. beneficial ownership and effective-control review; 4. sanctions/restricted-party screening and export/trade review where applicable; 5. proportionate responsible-business due diligence; 6. contractual eligibility and pass-through controls for resellers/subtenants; 7. periodic re-review when control or external evidence changes. Eligibility uses categorical states: `ELIGIBLE`, `ENHANCED_DUE_DILIGENCE`, `SUSPENDED`, `INELIGIBLE`. The accepted governance framework is current; the machine-readable r2 jurisdiction overlay still identifies itself as `PROPOSED_C0_ADOPTION` and should be described as proposed until the open C0 decision is resolved. ## Kristal Farms-controlled plane Depending on the service contract, Kristal Farms may operate: - electrical service, metering and curtailment interface; - cooling/service-water interfaces; - fibre handoff and shared network transport; - facility/perimeter security and physical access coordination; - environmental, power and facility telemetry; - shared-infrastructure maintenance and incident response; - billing/SLA records. Content blindness is **not** operational blindness. ## Tenant-controlled plane Unless a separately scoped managed service says otherwise, the tenant controls its: - server/accelerator configuration and private network; - operating systems/hypervisors; - models and model weights; - datasets and databases; - prompts, payloads and outputs; - application identities/authorization; - encryption keys and secrets; - internal application logs and private workload telemetry. The tenant may own/control hardware and modules, or use logically dedicated systems, according to contract. The wiki does not promise the same custody model for every tenancy. ## Normal operations must not require - disclosure or escrow of tenant decryption keys; - routine plaintext application access; - routine inspection of models, datasets, prompts, files or outputs; - covert content-monitoring; - a standing decryption backdoor; - private-content inspection as the mechanism for enforcing counterparty policy. Managed services that require logical access must be separately contracted and scoped. ## What remains observable Kristal Farms may process minimum necessary service telemetry such as: - power draw, quality and curtailment state; - cooling demand, flow/pressure and environmental alarms; - physical-entry/security events; - network availability, aggregate use, routing/fault data and shared-infrastructure security signals; - maintenance, billing and SLA records. Telemetry should be purpose-limited and access-controlled. ## Law, safety and physical access Black-box tenancy does not remove: - Canadian sanctions, trade/export-control or other legal obligations; - valid legal process; - life-safety, fire, electrical-isolation or facility-protection access; - the tenant’s responsibility for its own systems, credentials and keys. A valid legal request should be scoped to information Kristal Farms actually possesses or controls. The project should not create a persistent decryption capability merely to make future access easier. ## Resellers and layered tenancy A reseller or subtenant cannot be used to bypass the eligibility boundary. Where capacity is resold, downstream counterparties inherit the policy. A global pooled service that may serve ineligible customers requires a dedicated eligibility-bounded allocation mechanism or another verifiable separation. Audit rights concern eligibility process/allocation records, not private workload content. ## Public wording Preferred concise description: > **Kristal Farms operates the infrastructure. The tenant controls the compute.** Preferred expanded description: > Tenant environments are designed to remain encrypted and content-blind to routine Kristal Farms operations. Kristal Farms governs access through counterparty due diligence and contract, not by inspecting private models, datasets or application content. See [[Responsible International Tenancy]] and [[Serviced Compute Pads]]. ================================================================================================ FILE: Serviced-Compute-Pads.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Serviced Compute Pads **Status:** Current commercial/physical interface concept **As of:** 2026-08-31 **Canonical basis:** project state, confidentiality boundary and international mobilization strategy **Public limits:** ownership/custody/control of hardware is contract-specific Kristal Farms does not need to own every server. A node can provide **leaseable serviced compute pads/sites** with standardized external interfaces. ## Shared / host-side interfaces Depending on contract: - electrical power handoff and metering; - curtailment interface; - cooling/service-water interface; - standard fibre/network handoff; - shared physical/perimeter security; - environmental/facility telemetry; - logistics and maintenance access; - emergency/shutdown interfaces. ## Tenant-side control Depending on the tenancy, the tenant may bring/control: - servers, GPUs and storage; - containers/modules/racks or logically dedicated systems; - private networking; - operating systems/orchestration; - models, datasets and application content; - private logs; - cryptographic keys. The public model should not overstate that every tenant necessarily owns or physically controls every piece of hardware; the exact boundary is contractual. ## Telemetry boundary Kristal Farms may observe what is necessary to provide and protect shared infrastructure: power, cooling, physical access, aggregate network state/security signals, maintenance, billing and SLA data. Routine access to private tenant content, default key escrow, covert monitoring or a standing decryption backdoor are not part of the baseline. ## Resellers If capacity is resold/sublet, the responsible-tenancy eligibility boundary must pass through downstream legal counterparties. A global pooled service cannot be used as an uncontrolled conduit around project eligibility. See [[Secure Compute and Black Box Tenancy]] and [[Responsible International Tenancy]]. ================================================================================================ FILE: Site-Archetypes.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Site Archetypes Kristal Farms no longer assumes a universal single-location layout. ## 1. Generation-adjacent compute Compute is located near the hydro/renewable generating works. Advantages can include very short electrical connection and direct use of the remote resource. Challenges include inland logistics, fibre extension, maintenance and reduced community heat value. ## 2. Village/port-adjacent compute Compute is placed closer to marine logistics, local services, workforce and possible heat users. The electrical link from generation becomes longer and may require additional MV/substation infrastructure. ## 3. Hybrid split architecture Some compute or shared infrastructure is generation-side and some community-side. This can balance electrical distance, heat use, security, operations and logistics. No archetype is preferred universally. The correct layout is a corridor/site decision. ================================================================================================ FILE: Source-Basis.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Source Basis **Status:** Public evidence and citation discipline **As of:** 2026-09-01 Kristal Farms uses an evidence hierarchy so current claims can be traced to their actual basis. ## Practical authority order 1. current project-control documents for intended architecture, policy and status; 2. legislation, regulators, governments and rights-holder/community authorities for matters within their authority; 3. utilities, operators and official technical datasets for infrastructure/operating facts; 4. engineering studies, academic work and qualified consultants; 5. companies, carriers and vendors for their own systems/commercial statements; 6. reputable secondary reporting for context; 7. historical/legacy project material for provenance only unless revalidated. ## Source rule A source is authoritative only for the claim it actually supports. A published coordinate does not prove buildability. A planning margin does not prove hosting capacity. A managed port does not prove heavy-lift capability. Historical mine power does not prove current capacity. A prospect’s public roadmap does not prove interest in Kristal Farms. Conflicting sources remain conflicting until definitions and authority are reconciled. ## Canonical-source rule for this wiki Each factual wiki page should point to one or two canonical repository sources rather than reproducing every underlying detail. Volatile states should be read from canonical controls when possible, including: - project baseline/release date; - jurisdiction-policy version/status; - International 12 portfolio; - Observatory implementation state; - mine-reuse inventory; - regulatory docket status. ## Public citation priority Direct external citations are especially important for: - regulation and tariffs; - numerical MW/km/voltage/economic claims; - status of ports, fibre, roads or projects; - named mine/storage reference cases; - claims about named international organizations. Restricted counterparty-diligence sources must not be published merely to create a public citation. ================================================================================================ FILE: Structural-Cost-Advantage.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Structural Cost Advantage The primary economic hypothesis is not “cheap hydro” by itself. It is that some remote hydro resources become more valuable if their electricity does **not** need to be delivered to a distant southern load through a new long road/HV system. ## What the economic method tests External reference projects produced broad project/funding intensity ratios: - completed Québec 735-kV project totals: roughly **C$2.96M–C$4.85M per line-km** depending on project scope; - publicly tabled North Labrador road study: roughly **C$2.60M/km before paving** and **C$3.34M/km including the stated paving increment**; - northern fibre decisions: approximately **C$85k–C$209k/km of public contribution**, explicitly treated as funding-intensity proxies, not total construction cost. These values are not interchangeable unit rates and are not site estimates. ## 64-case frontier A generic stress grid varied: - HV distance: 25 / 50 / 100 / 200 km; - road distance: 10 / 25 / 50 / 100 km; - fibre distance: 100 / 250 / 500 / 933 km. Using the conservative reference pairing, 60 of 64 cases left positive **remaining unpriced Kristal Farms budget**; four did not. This is a sensitivity result, not a success probability. The important result is methodological: **the model can reject a configuration**. Short avoided electrical/road distances combined with very long fibre can erase the structural advantage. ## Never call the frontier “savings” Kristal Farms-specific local infrastructure remains unpriced until a real dossier exists. The positive difference is therefore an envelope remaining before parity, not savings, NPV, ROI or bankability. See [[Economic Architecture Frontier]]. ================================================================================================ FILE: The-Core-Idea.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # The Core Idea Remote renewable development normally asks: > How do we move electricity from the remote resource to an existing load centre? Kristal Farms asks a different question: > Can a transportable digital load be brought to the renewable resource, use the electricity locally, and export the resulting value over fibre? This is not simply a cold-climate data-centre concept. It is a **resource-access architecture** intended for places where long new roads, high-voltage lines, substations and export infrastructure can dominate the burden of developing remote energy. The model only makes sense when the full alternative is compared. Local compute still requires real infrastructure: generation, local electrical works, pads, fibre, logistics, cooling, security, operations and possibly port/local-road upgrades. The thesis is therefore conditional but strong: > **Kristal Farms should advance only where the local-compute/digital-export architecture has a demonstrable structural advantage over the realistic electrical-export alternative.** ================================================================================================ FILE: Topography-and-Head-Screening.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Topography and Head Screening The governing rule is simple: > **terrain drop is not project head** A river can lose substantial elevation over a reach without that drop being technically, legally, environmentally or economically developable. The proper sequence is: **official basin → connected hydrography → verified reach/direction → elevation profile → constraints/logistics → project concept → hydraulic head** HRDEM/other official elevation can support terrain screening, but `project_gross_head_m` and `project_net_head_m` remain null until a defined intake/conveyance/powerhouse concept exists. The application also blocks automatic `Q × H × η → MW` calculations from incomplete screening data. ================================================================================================ FILE: Transmission-vs-Digital-Export.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Transmission vs Digital Export Kristal Farms compares two architectures for the **same remote generation opportunity**. ## Conventional export architecture Remote generation → access roads → substations/switching → long electrical export → distant load. ## Kristal Farms architecture Remote generation → short/local electrical works → flexible compute → fibre export of digital value. This does not mean “no roads” or “no electrical lines.” Both architectures require enabling infrastructure. The question is whether the Kristal Farms configuration can avoid or materially reduce the **long** corridors that dominate a conventional remote-export case. ## What must be compared per dossier - actual road length and road class; - electrical voltage, substations and grid reinforcement; - losses and reliability requirements; - port/marine logistics; - local access road to generation/compute; - fibre route, landing, capacity and redundancy; - compute pad/power/cooling/security infrastructure; - environmental/rights cost and footprint; - financing, contingency, O&M and schedule. The current method establishes only a structural frontier using external benchmarks. Project economics require site-specific quotations and engineering. ================================================================================================ FILE: What-Is-Validated-and-What-Is-Being-Tested.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # What Is Validated and What Is Being Tested **Status:** Public state classification **As of:** 2026-08-31 working baseline **Canonical basis:** current project controls, tests, application code and research artifacts **Public limits:** “validated” here means controlled repository state, not project authorization or bankability ## Controlled / accepted framework - core energy-to-compute architecture and terminology; - community-priority rule; - unranked screening (`ranking_allowed=false`); - generation-side, community/port-side and hybrid compute layouts; - app-native evidence/provenance model; - content-blind tenant-environment ADR; - counterparty-screening-before-tenancy ADR; - responsible international tenancy governance framework; - mine-reuse screening semantics; - structural economic-frontier method and reproducible generic stress cases. ## Proposed / unresolved control state The **r2 jurisdiction eligibility schedule** remains a proposed C0 adoption in the machine-readable policy contracts. Do not present its country states as finally adopted until decision D-011 is closed. The root release manifest also remains `2026.08.30`, while current project control and newer workstreams use a 2026-08-31 working baseline. ## Implemented application surfaces - Northern Atlas — implemented dedicated Observatory surface; - International 12 — implemented dedicated research-portfolio surface. ## Scaffolded application surfaces - Corridors; - Economics; - Evidence. They are governed workspace shells, not completed products. ## Evidence exists but is incomplete for project decisions - community/port/telecom/energy context; - 24 WSC river/station research targets; - historical hydro/economic references; - infrastructure status snapshots; - broad environment/governance context; - mine research objects and reference cases; - international prospect research. ## Research only — never imply commitment - all named International 12 organizations; - all mine reuse objects; - mine-pit storage concepts; - site/corridor candidates; - international “coalition” or security-resilience outcomes. ## Still being tested per corridor/site dossier - constructible hydro site; - engineering head/design flow/buildable MW; - exact port-to-site logistics; - fibre capacity/route/redundancy/terms; - environmental acceptability; - Indigenous/community authorization; - regulatory treatment; - full project economics; - tenant demand fit and signed commercial evidence; - mine asset condition/rights and storage feasibility where relevant. ## Important rules A source-supported infrastructure announcement is not equivalent to completed infrastructure. A reference project is not a Kristal Farms candidate. A prospect is not an interested tenant. A mine is not a bunker. A pit is not a storage project. ================================================================================================ FILE: Why-the-North.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Why the North The target geography is not “remote places in general.” The project is focused on **northern Québec and Labrador**, where distance from existing roads and high-voltage transmission can create the strongest structural contrast between conventional energy export and local digital-value export. ## Structural factors - hydro/renewable resources can be far from major load centres; - road and transmission expansion can be unusually burdensome; - coastal marine logistics can move heavy equipment without reproducing a continuous road network everywhere; - cold climate can reduce cooling burden, though actual PUE must be demonstrated by design/operation; - fibre can carry high-value digital output with a much smaller physical corridor than a new HV transmission line; - some communities already operate within autonomous or remote energy systems, making community-priority electrical interfaces a first-class design constraint. ## Geography strategy Côte-Nord is preferred for pilot learning because it offers northern conditions with comparatively more practical access and services. The longer-term thesis moves farther north where avoided road/HV burden becomes more important. ## Environmental discipline The project does **not** assume that northern regions are low-biodiversity or low-impact by default. Site screening must identify actual ecological sensitivity, cumulative impacts, cultural/rights context and existing disturbance. ================================================================================================ FILE: Working-Economic-Examples.md AUTHORITY: canonical ================================================================================================ # Working Economic Examples Historical project documents contained illustrative transmission, road, cooling, PUE and heat-use assumptions. They remain useful for provenance but are **not** current project economics. The current economic method uses a stricter rule: 1. benchmark/reference ratio ≠ site cost; 2. unknown cost = `UNPRICED`, never zero; 3. positive structural frontier ≠ savings; 4. generation CAPEX is not automatically counted as an avoided cost when comparing two ways of monetizing the same resource; 5. tenant compute hardware is not an avoided infrastructure cost; 6. NPV/IRR are blocked until a real dossier exists. Use [[Economic Architecture Frontier]] for the current economic method.