Warmth Engine Observatory

Warmth Engine Observatory (WEO)

AI Infrastructure Coordination Dynamics

Overview

The Warmth Engine Observatory tracks AI infrastructure coordination dynamics across geopolitical blocs through verified events and mapped Coordination Connections.

Scope: WEO tracks systemic AI infrastructure coordination — observable coordination dynamics between major power centres (currently nation-states and geopolitical blocs). This differs from operational AI infrastructure management, which addresses how organisations run their own AI systems.

Live Platform: www.warmthengine.com

Platform Components

• Event Database — Verified AI infrastructure coordination events classified by tier (Cross-Bloc, Between-Bloc, Intra-Bloc) and domain (Energy/Infrastructure, Security, Technology, Trade), tagged by industry sector (11-category GICS-anchored taxonomy) and assessed for environmental intersections via Environmental Nexus Tags (5-type ENT taxonomy with Warmth Engine Ratio)
• Coordination Connections — Documented relationships between events revealing structural patterns across the database (Policy Cascade, Joint Issuance, Funding Flow, Regulatory Enablement, Response, Framework Family, Parallel Policy)
• Interactive Map — Geographic visualisation of global AI infrastructure deployment
• Interactive Atlas — Network, timeline, and connectedness analytical surface for exploring coordination topology and event relationships via Cytoscape.js
• Evidence-Based Verification — Every event verified through primary and corroborating sources with gold standard evidentiary requirements
• Sovereign Capability Profiles — 7-dimension framework assessing 20 state actors' sovereign control across the AI infrastructure stack, with four designation levels (PAA, AIK, ACS, Participant); includes qualification headlines, constraint summaries, sourced evidence, and severance analysis
• Profiles Page — Standalone /profiles/ page rendering the full SCP panel with dimension filtering, actor detail expansion, and Dimension Watch table
• Dimension Watch — Forward-looking monitoring table identifying actors approaching a designation status change at the next assessment cycle, with trigger conditions and timeline estimates
• Infrastructure Threads — Factual cross-event links documenting where the same AI infrastructure asset (chip or accelerator, energy source, or fabrication facility) appears across multiple verified events, with four link types (fabricated_at, deploys, trains_on, powered_by); toggleable overlay on the Atlas and queryable via get_threads
• Guided Journeys — Operator-curated analytical pathways across three substrates on the Atlas: coordination (directional coordination lineage), hardware (infrastructure thread links), and all layers (fusion traversal spanning coordination, material, and capability layers)
• Coordination Topology — Parent-child coordination backbone mapping directional relationships (Policy Cascade, Funding Flow, Regulatory Enablement, Response) across the event corpus, powering the Atlas network view
• MCP Integration — Model Context Protocol server at warmthengine.com/mcp exposing seventeen programmatic tools for AI systems to query verified Coordination Intelligence (search_events, get_event, get_connections, get_connection_by_id, get_actors, get_coverage_stats, get_methodology, get_topology, traverse_coordination, get_capability_signatures, get_capability_links, get_threads, get_event_stack, query_scp, get_blocs, get_contribution, get_metrics)

Architecture

The platform uses a decoupled architecture: HTML files serve as lightweight UI shells that fetch data dynamically from the WEO API (Cloudflare Worker + KV).

• Data source: Cloudflare KV via WEO API (warmthengine.com/api/)
• MCP endpoint: warmthengine.com/mcp (Model Context Protocol for AI agent access)
• Authentication: Token-based (?token=weo_xxx) for API and MCP consumers; password header for website
• Fallback: Static JSON file for API downtime resilience
• Hosting: GitHub Pages with custom domain
• Routes: Managed via wrangler.toml (warmthengine.com/api/* and warmthengine.com/mcp*)

Data updates flow through the API — no HTML changes required for new events or connections.

Methodology Documentation

The WEO methodology is documented across four publications, all available on Zenodo with DOI registration:

Core Documentation

Methodology Extensions

Self-Hosted Documentation

The V1.5 Manual and Rationale are self-hosted as navigable HTML with granular section anchoring:

• Manual: warmthengine.com/research/methodology/manual/ (490 section anchors)
• Rationale: warmthengine.com/research/methodology/rationale/ (193 section anchors)
• Errata & Corrigenda: warmthengine.com/research/methodology/errata/ — V1.5 errata and corrigenda (expression corrections and substantive corrections to reported findings, with machine-readable errata.json)

A semantic dictionary (data/weo-methodology-map.json) maps 185 WEO-specific terms to their methodology section anchors, serving both human tooltip navigation and the MCP get_methodology tool.

Repository Structure

warmth-engine-observatory/
├── index.html                  # Main platform (interactive map)
├── atlas.html                  # Interactive atlas (network/timeline/connectedness)
├── events.html                 # Events database
├── methodology.html            # Methodology overview
├── blocs.html                  # Bloc analysis
├── research.html               # Research publications
├── about.html                  # About WEO
├── support.html                # Supporter access
├── legal.html                  # Legal information
├── 404.html                    # Custom error page
├── profiles/
│   └── index.html                  # Sovereign Capability Profiles page (generated)
├── scripts/
│   └── generate_profiles.py        # Profiles page generator (actors JSON → HTML)
├── data/
│   ├── events-free.json            # Static fallback (free-tier event data)
│   └── weo-methodology-map.json    # 185 term-to-anchor semantic mappings
├── research/
│   └── methodology/
│       ├── errata/                 # V1.5 Errata Register (HTML + errata.json)
│       ├── manual/                 # Self-hosted V1.5 Manual (HTML + PDF)
│       ├── materials-register/     # AI-Critical Materials Register (HTML)
│       └── rationale/              # Self-hosted V1.5 Rationale (HTML + PDF)
├── sitemap.xml                 # XML sitemap for search engines
├── robots.txt                  # Crawler directives
├── og-image.png                # Open Graph social preview image
├── favicon_48x48.png           # Browser tab icon (48px)
├── favicon_32x32.png           # Browser tab icon (32px)
├── favicon_16x16.png           # Browser tab icon (16px)
├── CNAME                       # Custom domain configuration
├── LICENSE.md                  # Licence information
└── README.md                   # This file

Citation

If using this platform or its methodology in research, please cite:

Warmth Engine Observatory (WEO)
Warmth Engine, 2026
https://www.warmthengine.com
Licensed under CC BY 4.0

Contact

• Website: warmthengine.com
• Email: warmthengine@proton.me

Acknowledgements

This platform uses the following open-source libraries and typefaces:

• Leaflet (BSD-2-Clause) — Interactive map functionality
• Leaflet.markercluster (MIT) — Map marker clustering
• Geist (SIL Open Font Licence) — Primary typeface
• Geist Mono (SIL Open Font Licence) — Monospace typeface
• Cytoscape.js (MIT) — Network graph visualisation (Atlas)

Licence

Methodology documentation is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.

The platform, event database, and data products are proprietary.

See LICENSE.md for full details.