# Countries Brief ## 94% of tracked compute is in countries with full or allied export-control access 49.7 GW of compute capacity is tracked across 34 countries. 94% of it is in countries the export-control regime treats as fully or effectively unrestricted. The bands it does constrain hold 5.4% of the tracked megawatts and 63% of the 3,430 Entity List designations in the register. 1. Full6 countries · 1,799 facilities · $20.50B government-only across 6 programmes36.9 GW74.2% · 61 designations 2. Allied13 of 14 countries have tracked plant · 1,221 facilities · $17.04B government-only from 12 of 13 programmes10.0 GW20.0% · 374 designations 3. Restricted1 country · 19 facilities · $77.00B government-only across 1 programme2.0 GW4.1% · no designations 4. Heavily Restricted1 country · 56 facilities · $55.70B government-only across 1 programme632 MW1.3% · 1,068 designations 5. Embargoed1 of 4 countries has tracked plant · 61 facilities6 MW<0.1% · 1,087 designations 6. Outside the bands68 countries, 12 with tracked plant · 894 facilities · $11.75B government-only from 7 of 15 programmes188 MW0.4% · 840 designations - Operating capacity - Under construction or announced - Share of designations _Where the capacity is, and where the designations are._ One row per export-control access band. The upper bar is the band’s share of all tracked capacity, scaled to the largest band, with the solid run inside it the part that is operating rather than under construction or announced. The lower bar, in the opposing weight, is the band’s share of the 3,430 Entity List designations in the register. The two run in opposite directions, and that is the reading. The final row is the residue — countries that have plant with no access classification, and countries that have a designation or a rule but no tracked facility — so both books close on the figure rather than in a footnote: every megawatt and every designation the register holds sits in exactly one row. A band’s megawatts, facilities and designations are sums over the countries in it that have tracked plant, so each row prints that count against the number of countries the classification reaches: the difference is this record’s coverage, not the regime’s scope. Capacity is a facility-power sum and is estimate-bearing in aggregate; a share that is real but rounds below a tenth of a point prints as “<0.1%” rather than as zero. Access classifications are rule-derived and were last reviewed July 17, 2026. Nothing here is schematic. The obvious inference from that first number is that export controls reach almost nothing, and it is the wrong one. A capacity figure measures documentation, not plant, and documentation is densest where disclosure is: the constrained bands are in large part the bands whose operators file nothing, publish nothing, and appear in no open facility catalogue. The substrate says as much about itself. China has 1,068 designations against 56 tracked facilities — the record is thick on the entity axis and thin on the facility axis inside one country, which is a fact about what each source can see rather than about what is there. What the split does establish is where the regime’s two instruments point. Country-level access classification and entity-level designation are different tools, and on this substrate they are aimed at almost disjoint sets: the capacity is in one place, the designations in another. A reader tracking whether controls bind the capacity that exists needs both layers on one key, which is what this page joins. The second axis is build stage, and it cuts across the first. 15.4 GW of the total is operating today; 7.4 GW is under construction or expanding; and 26.7 GW is announced. So the headline compares a mostly unbuilt total against a designation corpus that is entirely current — the controls are a fact about today and most of the capacity is a fact about a plan. The [register](/entities/countries) shows that split per country. Ownership is the third. 53% of tracked capacity traces to a beneficial owner that reaches a public filing; 15% is still awaiting ownership investigation. Neither figure is evenly spread, and the countries where the ownership record goes darkest are not the ones the access classification constrains. State money is the fourth, and it runs the other way. The bands the regime constrains hold 5.4% of the tracked megawatts and 73% of the government-only money announced by sovereign AI programmes — $132.70B of $182.00B across 36 programmes. That share is 2 national lines, not a pattern across many states, which is why the count sits on the plate beside the figure. Announced is not disbursed and the two differ by more than an order of magnitude on some programmes; the [sovereign register](/sovereign-ai) shows the execution gap per programme. What the join establishes is narrow and worth stating: the capacity figure and the money figure are thinnest in opposite bands, so neither layer answers on its own where compute policy is being funded. ### Where the tracked capacity is [the United States](/country/us) 36.5 GW73.3% of tracked capacity · Full access [the United Arab Emirates](/country/ae) 5.2 GW10.4% of tracked capacity · Allied access [France](/country/fr) 2.0 GW4.1% of tracked capacity · Allied access [Saudi Arabia](/country/sa) 2.0 GW4.1% of tracked capacity · Restricted access [India](/country/in) 1.5 GW3.1% of tracked capacity · Allied access [China](/country/cn) 632 MW1.3% of tracked capacity · Heavily Restricted access [Italy](/country/it) 551 MW1.1% of tracked capacity · Allied access [Malaysia](/country/my) 387 MW0.8% of tracked capacity · Allied access Scope34 of the 126 countries in the register have a capacity figure, and this page’s arithmetic is theirs. 92 of the 126 countries have no capacity figure at all, a gap in the power record rather than an absence of plant. 75 of them hold 696 tracked facilities whose power is not on record; the other 17 are here because a rule names them, a designated entity is located there, or a sovereign programme is keyed to them. Those rows are real and this page’s megawatt figures have nothing to say about them; the [register](/entities/countries) counts them column by column. Capacity is a facility-power sum and is estimate-bearing in aggregate; the access classifications are rule-derived and were last reviewed July 17, 2026.