Data 2026-07

Sovereign AI

Announced commitments against government budgets and reported disbursements, by country.

Sovereign programme record · Ireland · 2025–2027

Ireland: CASPIr Supercomputer (EuroHPC) + AIF IRL-Antenna: $27M announced · disbursement not on record

Every figure below derives from the same record the dashboard reads — this page is the programme as a citable object: the reconciliation with its denominator stated, the decomposition with its residual, and the dated evidence behind each claim.

Announced~$27M
Government-only floor$18M
Committed~$27M
Disbursed—
No disbursement figure on record.

The reconciliation. Four figures on one dollar scale, each bar a share of the largest. The reality ratio above divides disbursed by the government-only floor ($18M), and the field it divides by is stated so the division is reproducible. A hatched track is an absent figure carried with its reason — a government that does not publish disbursement is a finding, not a zero. Tildes mark estimated figures.

Pipeline stage: Signed (medium confidence) — 154% of announced committed; no disbursement recorded. The stage is a Scrutica derivation (tier 4), computed from the figures above, never asserted by the source.

Hardware on record

Empanelled partners · 10

Partner	GPUs	Model	Stage	Award
ICHEC	—	—	commissioned	Primary source · 2025-10-13
University of Galway	—	—	commissioned	Primary source · 2025-10-13
CeADAR	—	—	empanelled	Primary source · 2024-11-01
PorterShed	—	—	empanelled	Primary source · 2024-11-01
Dogpatch Labs	—	—	empanelled	Primary source · 2024-11-01
RDI Hub	—	—	empanelled	Primary source · 2024-11-01
Republic of Works	—	—	empanelled	Primary source · 2024-11-01
Advanced Innovation in Manufacturing	—	—	empanelled	Primary source · 2024-11-01
Innovation Technology AtlanTec Gateway	—	—	empanelled	Primary source · 2024-11-01
Digital Technology Skills Ltd.	—	—	empanelled	Primary source · 2024-11-01

External dependence

NVIDIA hardware: medium · TSMC fabrication: high · US technology: high · BIS jurisdiction reach: low. Dependence levels are Scrutica classifications (tier 4) from the programme’s own disclosures — which hardware it buys, where it fabricates, and whose export jurisdiction its supply chain crosses.

Named partners: ICHEC, University of Galway, EuroHPC JU, Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment.

CASPIr: >15 PFLOPS. Ireland's first EuroHPC-class system. Tender published March 27, 2026. Uniquely exposed: enormous AI compute on its soil, entirely foreign-owned.

What this record flags about itself · 6

EUR 25M confirmed; tender live as of March 27 2026
System 1+ year from operation
Ireland's first EuroHPC-class system
Ireland hosts more hyperscaler DCs than any EU country (relative to population) but controls none
The hardware record has a gap: the CASPIr tender is open, and the accelerator model will be determined by the procurement process.
The government-only figure is derived: EUR 25M at a 65% national share, the standard EuroHPC petascale co-funding model as recorded in this record's underlying research file, gives EUR 16.25M, converted at 1.09 EUR/USD for $17.7M. The figure is recorded as an estimate.

The evidence trail

5 cited sources

CASPIr tender (EuroHPC) — Primary source · accessed 2026-04-07
ICHEC CASPIr hosting agreement — Primary source · accessed 2026-04-07
EuroHPC official announcement — Primary source · accessed 2026-03-28
Irish Times with technical and budget details — Press or analyst · accessed 2026-03-28
National AI Strategy Refresh 2024 — Primary source · accessed 2026-03-28

Machine surfacesThis record is one object under one id: the evidence-trail feed and the derivation-chain export serialize the same programme this page renders.