Federal and state AI compute programs
This page reports what the sources say. It is not a position of the consortium.
Each row is one federal or California state program or action that funds or governs AI compute. The amounts and dates are those of the sources. A blank cell means that no cited source states the fact.
| Program | Body | What it funds | Amount | Dates | Status | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NSF State and Regional AI Infrastructure Hubs (NSF 26-513) | U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) | Hub coordination, workforce and faculty training. “NSF does not provide funding for acquisition of AI infrastructure”. Each hub’s consortium pays for the compute. | Solicitation: “10 awards in each award cycle”, “5 years and between $4,000,000 - $12,000,000 total budget”. NSF news: “a $100 million initiative”, “up to 10 AI Infrastructure Hubs”. University of Rhode Island post: “roughly $4 million to $12 million over five years”. | Posted July 31, 2026. Full proposals: November 04, 2026; November 03, 2027; then the first Wednesday in November each year. | Solicitation open. “No awards exist yet.” | NSF 26-513 solicitation; NSF news AI Infrastructure Hubs (web); URI IACR NSF 26-512 and 26-513 summary (web) |
| NSF TechAccess: AI-Ready America Coordination Hubs (NSF 26-508) | NSF, with the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Labor and the Small Business Administration | One coordination hub for each state or territory: an AI resource inventory, a strategic plan, deployment support and training. It does not fund compute. | Up to 56 awards. “$1M/year for three years”. Total “$168,000,000 to $224,000,000”. | Posted March 25, 2026. Letters of intent: June 16, 2026 (round 1); Dec. 15, 2026 (round 2) in the NSF solicitation, “December 15, 2027 (round 2)” in the NJIT listing; June 1, 2027 (round 3). Full proposals: July 16, 2026; Jan. 15, 2027; July 1, 2027. | Solicitation open. Round 1 awards are not listed. | NSF 26-508 TechAccess solicitation (web); NJIT NSF 26-508 round dates (web) |
| NSF CyberAICorps Scholarship for Service (NSF 26-503) | NSF, with the Office of Personnel Management and the Department of Homeland Security | Scholarships in AI and cybersecurity for service in government, and education projects. Not compute. | “The maximum award amount is $500,000 for the Innovation Track and $2,500,000 for the Scholarship Track.” Stipends of “$27,000 per year for undergraduate students and $37,000 per year for graduate students”. | Solicitation of 2026; it replaces NSF 23-574. | NSF 26-503 CyberAICorps Scholarship for Service (web); NSF 26-503 CyberAICorps solicitation (web) | |
| NAIRR Pilot | NSF, with “10 other federal agencies as well as 25 private sector, nonprofit and philanthropic organizations” | Allocations of compute, models and data on partner resources. Research awards last “twelve (12) months”. Start-Up awards last “three (3) months”, with “up to 2,000 GPU-hours”. | No source gives a dollar amount. | Launch release Jan. 24, 2024. Research call open from May 6, 2024. Start-Up call open from May 16, 2025. No source gives an end date. | Operating. The resource feed lists 49 resources; five company resources are “currently unable to accept additional NAIRR Pilot awards”. | NAIRR Pilot resource catalog feed (web); NSF NAIRR pilot launch release 2024-01-24 (web); NAIRR Pilot resource allocations (web); NAIRR Pilot Start-Up projects (web); NAIRR Pilot allocation management policy; NAIRR Pilot proposal instructions |
| NAIRR Operations Center (NSF award 2616251) | NSF; San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego leads | Operation of the NAIRR Operations Center: a national portal, user support and training. | SDSC release: “a $35 million cooperative award over five years”. NSF record: estimated total “35000000”, obligated to date “7000000”. | Release Sept. 1, 2026. NSF record: start “10/01/2026”, end “09/30/2031”. | Funded | SDSC NAIRR Operations Center launch; Würthwein NSF award 2616251 (web) |
| Prototype National Research Platform (NSF award 2112167) | NSF; UC San Diego | The National Research Platform: shared GPUs and storage for research and teaching. | NSF record: estimated total “5000000”, obligated to date “13174829”. The record does not explain the difference. | Start “07/01/2021”, end “06/30/2028”. | Funded | Würthwein NSF award 2112167 (web); Würthwein National Research Platform homepage |
| National Data Platform (NSF Integrated Data Systems and Services) | NSF; UC San Diego leads | Data infrastructure for AI. | “five-year, $24.5 million Cooperative Agreement” | “July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2031” | Funded | SDSC National Data Platform release 2026-08-10 (web) |
| NSF BRIDGE (NSF Integrated Data Systems and Services) | NSF; UC Irvine, UCLA and the University of Michigan | Data science and AI platforms that run on public clouds or on laboratory clusters. | “nearly $9 million” | News item of Aug. 27, 2026; a three-year project. | Funded | UCI data infrastructure award 2026-08-27 (web) |
| CENVAL-ARC (NSF award 2346744) | NSF; UC Merced leads, with CSU Sacramento, CSU Stanislaus and CSU Fresno | Regional computing hardware in UC Merced’s Pinnacles cluster, and yearly symposia. | “FY 2024 = $1,000,000.00” | “Start June 1, 2024. End May 31, 2027.” | Funded | Chadalapaka NSF award 2346744; CENVAL-ARC homepage |
| CloudBank | NSF; SDSC with UC Berkeley and other partners | Managed access to public cloud for computer science research and teaching. | “a mid-2019 $5 million NSF award” | Award in mid-2019. Article of Sept. 8, 2020. | The ACCESS catalog feed lists CloudBank among its active resource groups, with access to “Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, and Microsoft Azure”. The NAIRR Pilot feed lists six CloudBank resources. | CloudBank at Berkeley; ACCESS resource catalog feed (web); NAIRR Pilot resource catalog feed (web) |
| ACCESS | NSF | Allocations on national research computing resources, at no cost to the user. | No source gives a dollar amount. | “Since September 2022 program launch” | Operating | ACCESS Allocations policy; ACCESS Our impact |
| NIH STRIDES Initiative | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | “Favorable pricing on computing, storage, and related cloud services” for NIH units and NIH-funded institutions. | No source gives a rate or an amount. | No date in the source. | Operating | NIH STRIDES benefits (web) |
| DOE Genesis Mission, first selections (DE-FOA-0003612) | U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science | Projects in “AI-driven scientific discovery”. The list gives titles and institutions only. | The list gives no amounts. | “List Posted: 7/22/2026”. | Selected. “Selection for award negotiations is not a commitment by DOE to issue an award or provide funding.” 278 rows, 56 with a California address. UC Regents: UC investigators lead “40 of the 278 projects”. SLAC is a partner in “seven Genesis Mission Phase II projects”. | DOE Genesis Mission awards list 2026 (web); UC Regents B4 Update on AI 2026-09-16; SLAC Genesis Mission phase II projects (web) |
| S.2714, CREATE AI Act of 2024 | U.S. Senate | A bill to establish the National AI Research Resource at NSF, with a free tier of access. | The reported text gives no dollar amount. | Reported in the Senate on December 17, 2024, Calendar No. 721. | Reported bill. The source does not say if it passed. | S.2714 CREATE AI Act |
| Executive Order 14365, national AI policy framework | President of the United States | Federal action against state AI laws. Its legislative recommendation “shall not propose preempting” state laws on “AI compute and data center infrastructure, other than generally applicable permitting reforms”. | None. | Signed Dec. 11, 2025. Federal Register, Dec. 16, 2025. | Issued | Executive Order 14365 national AI policy framework (web) |
| Executive Order N-6-26, AI and the workforce | Governor of California; Government Operations Agency (GovOps) | Directive 9: GovOps gives the Governor options that include “securing dedicated access to computing power for research and development of AI that meets specified criteria for advancing the public good”. | None. | Signed May 21, 2026. Directive 9: “No later than October 15, 2026”. | Issued | Executive Order N-6-26 |
| Executive Order N-5-26, trusted AI procurement | Governor of California; Department of General Services and California Department of Technology (CDT) | Recommendations for new vendor certifications in state AI procurement. GovOps gives state employees vetted generative AI tools and more AI training. | None. | Signed March 30, 2026. “Within 120 days of the issuance of this Order”. | Issued | Executive Order N-5-26 trusted AI procurement (web) |
| Executive Order N-12-23, generative AI | Governor of California; GovOps leads | Study of generative AI and a process to evaluate and deploy it in state government. Poppy and the state staff training follow it. | None. | Sept. 6, 2023. Milestones from November 2023 to February 2025. | Issued | GovOps generative AI executive order page (web); CDT Technology Letter 25-01 (web); Poppy overview |
| State Administrative Manual 4986.1 to 4986.13 (CDT Technology Letter 25-01) | CDT | Rules for generative AI in state entities: inventory, hosting, procurement and training. Proofs of concept run in a CDT sandbox. | None. | Effective Feb. 20, 2025. | In effect | CDT Technology Letter 25-01 (web) |
| State Administrative Manual 4983.1, Cloud Computing Policy | Department of General Services; CDT | Rules for cloud use by state entities: cloud through CDT or DGS, and data stored in the United States. | None. | “Revised August 2025” | In effect | SAM 4983.1 cloud computing (web) |
| Government Code section 11546.8 (SB 53), CalCompute | California Legislature | A framework “for the creation of a public cloud computing cluster to be known as” CalCompute. | The statute gives no amount. Assembly Floor analysis: “GovOps estimates total costs of $2.5 million for expert contractors, infrastructure planning, and staffing”. | Approved Sept. 29, 2025. Report due “On or before January 1, 2027”. | Law | SB-53 Gov Code 11546.8; SB-53 Assembly Floor analysis 2025-09-08 |
| UC Sovereign AI Cloud | University of California (UC) Office of the President; UC AI Steering Committee | “a shared, UC-owned and UC-governed computing capacity” | “Sizing, funding, and governance are still being defined” | Steering Committee formed in March 2026 in the Regents item, “in May of 2026” in the UC press release. Sizing and funding proposal “no later than October 2027”. | In scoping. The Regents item is for discussion. | UC Regents B4 Update on AI 2026-09-16; UC press release systemwide AI expertise (web) |
| UC AI Science at Scale initiative | UC | A multicampus initiative on AI for science. | “$18 million to its own multicampus AI Science at Scale initiative” | No date in the source. | Funded | UC Regents B4 Update on AI 2026-09-16 |
| UC agreements with Amazon Web Services and Google | UC | Research awards and cloud credits. | Amazon: “more than $22 million in research awards” and cash and credits “including $14 million in AWS credits”. Google: “more than $32.7 million across 61 funded projects”. | Amazon: five-year agreement signed “in January 2023”. Google: no date. | UC Regents B4 Update on AI 2026-09-16; UC press release systemwide AI expertise (web) |
⚠️ Contradiction: NSF 26-508 TechAccess solicitation (web) gives the round 2 letter of intent date as Dec. 15, 2026. NJIT NSF 26-508 round dates (web) gives “December 15, 2027”, which is after its own round 2 full proposal date of January 15, 2027.
⚠️ Contradiction: UC Regents B4 Update on AI 2026-09-16 says the President of UC formed the UC AI Steering Committee in March 2026 (pp. 1 to 2). UC press release systemwide AI expertise (web) says “in May of 2026”.