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AI technologies proliferate digital and physical space, transforming how people work, cities are built, and data flows. The AI Infrastructure Lab is a living lab that maps related infrastructure, assesses how social and economic behaviour changes, and informs debate from silicon to bit.

Hosted at the Centre of Language and Speech Technology (CLST), Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

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III 2026

Our paper on "Mapping collocation of stock and internet exchanges around the world" was accepted to III 2026!

New member

Welcoming Arya Golkhandan, our newest graduate researcher, to the lab.

NWO Impact Explorer grant

The lab has been awarded the 2025 NWO Impact explorer grant by the Dutch Research Council to put the European Open Source AI Index into practice.

Projects

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Sovereign AI infrastructure

Comparing national and regional strategies for AI sovereignty through cloud procurement, public compute, standards, and research infrastructure.

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Open model supply chains

Investigating the software, datasets, labour, hardware access, and governance practices behind open-weight and open-source AI systems.

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Compute geographies

Mapping how data centres, cloud regions, chips, energy infrastructure, and policy incentives shape the geography of AI compute.

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Publications

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Economy as social practice

2018-04-03

Rahel Jaeggi

Journal for Cultural Research, 22, (2), 122-125

DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2018.1461355

AI walks

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First AI infrastructure walk

AI walking in Karlsruhe

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Possible roles for academia in open-source AI

In which we speculate on possible roles academia could serve in the open-source AI ecosystem

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