D - Use Parameters

Statutory text

Government Code section 11546.8, subdivision (f)(2)(D), requires the Report to include:

(D) Recommendations for the parameters for use of CalCompute, including, but not limited to, a process for determining which users and projects will be supported by CalCompute.

Source: SB-53 Gov Code 11546.8.

Reading list

This list groups the library’s sources for this element by tier. It does not say what the Report will recommend.

Primary (37)

• Anthropic Usage Policy 2026-11-12: The Anthropic Usage Policy has three tiers: Universal Usage Standards, High-risk Use Case Requirements and Additional Use Case Guidelines.
• AWS Acceptable Use Policy 2021-07-01: The AWS Acceptable Use Policy is short and general.
• AWS Responsible AI Policy 2025-01-13: This is the AI-specific hard-limits document of Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• California Report on Frontier AI Policy 2025-06-17: The working group report does not mention CalCompute in the excerpt.
• CCC ISTI 25-300-01 AI Literacy: The CCC system has a written AI literacy standard: the PEOPLE framework, six competencies for all students, faculty and staff.
• CCC ISTI 25-300-02 AI Safety and Security: The California Community Colleges (CCC) Chancellor’s Office tells colleges to test agentic AI in isolated sandboxes.
• CCC ISTI 26-300-01 Digital Identity Verification: The CCC system requires digital identity verification for students, from August 2026.
• CCC ISTI 26-300-02 CCCStart Supplemental Data Collection: Sept. 22, 2026: ask only what admission needs; new questions go through central review and an approved list.
• CCC ISTI Data Governance Advisory Workgroup: Advisory body: 3 chairs and 18 members from 13 associations, quarterly; tests data standards on nine platforms.
• CCC ISTI memos index: Four ISTI memos; one new, 26-300-02. Lists the pages taken.
• CDT executive team: CDT’s 12 executives, with Chris Given as CIO and Vera Zakem as Chief Technology and Innovation Officer.
• ESP Action CalCompute public cloud release 2024-02-08 (web): The co-sponsor calls CalCompute a “public cloud”. Teri Olle: people with ideas “do not have access to the tools they need”.
• ESP Governor signs SB-53 release 2025-09-29 (web): The co-sponsor says compute is “dominated by just three companies: Amazon, Google, and Microsoft” and CalCompute is “a public option”.
• ESP launches Economic Security California 2024-01-30 (web): Economic Security California (ESCA) is the California state affiliate of the Economic Security Project (ESP).
• Google Cloud Acceptable Use Policy 2026-10-12: The Google Cloud Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) is general.
• Google Generative AI Prohibited Use Policy 2024-12-17: This is the AI-specific hard-limits document of Google.
• GovOps AI independent oversight and kill switch: Names EO N-9-26 (Sept. 18, 2026): third-party AI oversight, independent audits and a frontier model shutoff.
• Microsoft Enterprise AI Services Code of Conduct 2026-05-01: The Code of Conduct sets the prohibited uses for all Microsoft AI Services, including Azure OpenAI.
• NAIRR Pilot allocation management policy: The NAIRR Pilot takes back compute that a project does not use.
• NAIRR Pilot proposal instructions: A NAIRR Pilot request is a three-page PDF, a short CV for the lead, and an online form.
• OpenAI Usage Policies 2025-10-29: OpenAI has one set of usage policies for all of its products.
• Poppy overview: Poppy is a generative AI (GenAI) platform that CDT built for state employees.
• Poppy service page: CDT charges state departments for Poppy.
• Poppy Terms of Use (web): These are the terms between CDT and each “Ordering Entity” for Poppy, the state’s generative AI (GenAI) platform.
• S.2714 CREATE AI Act: Federal NAIRR bill as reported: NSF picks an operating entity or consortium; a free tier of access
• SB 1047 CalCompute section 2024-08-29: SB 1047’s CalCompute section: the same elements as SB-53, report due Jan. 1, 2026; vetoed
• SB-53 Assembly Floor analysis 2025-09-08: This is the only legislative source with a cost figure for the consortium.
• SB-53 Assembly Privacy analysis 2025-07-08: The committee’s summary of the bill (items 17 to 28) already matches the enacted § 11546.8 almost item for item.
• SB-53 Gov Code 11546.8: The statute: Gov. Code § 11546.8, subdivisions (a) to (k), word for word. The base of every definition.
• SB-53 Senate GO analysis 2025-03-25: Excerpt of the CalCompute passages of the Senate Governmental Organization analysis. The full copy is the (web) page.
• SB-53 Senate GO analysis 2025-03-25 (web): The first committee analysis of SB 53. It has the enacted mission, UC placement and seven elements, with the March appointment scheme. It says “This bill does not establish CalCompute” and records no opposition.
• UC Regents B4 Update on AI 2026-09-16: UC is scoping its own “Sovereign AI Cloud”, UC-owned and UC-governed. It does not name CalCompute.
• Wiener SB 1047 introduction release 2024-02-07 (web): SB 1047’s release names CalCompute users as “startups, researchers, and community groups” and asks cloud firms for transparent pricing.
• Wiener SB 294 announcement 2023-09-13
• Wiener SB-53 expansion release 2025-07-09: The author’s office describes CalCompute as more settled than the statute does.
• Wiener SB-53 introduction release 2025-02-28 (web): SB 53 “takes the first step toward establishing CalCompute”, with “low-cost compute”. It compares New York’s $90 million AI consortium.
• Wiener SB-53 signing release 2025-09-29 (web): The author calls CalCompute “industrial policy” for startups and researchers. Teri Olle calls it “a public option for computing power”.

Peer-reviewed (2)

• PEARC 2025 Cultivating Computational Equity Central Valley: CENVAL-ARC: Central Valley campuses use under 0.05% of ACCESS allocations; training and shared infrastructure
• PEARC 2025 Empire AI model for provisioning AI and HPC: Empire AI: $250M state capital, $150M from members, nonprofit governance, member-ranked proposals

Institutional (19)

• ACCESS Allocations policy: This is the full ACCESS rule set for who can get compute and how ACCESS decides.
• ACCESS Get your first project: ACCESS gives a first project in five steps.
• ACCESS homepage: This is a thin homepage of about 286 words.
• ACCESS Our impact: ACCESS reports 67,925 “Users with an allocation” and 2,055 “Research institutions served” since its launch in September 2022.
• ACCESS Project types: ACCESS has four project types: Explore, Discover, Accelerate and Maximize.
• Cal-ICOR documentation
• Cal-ICOR homepage: 1,907 students this term and 4,369 all time (UC 275, CSU 1,497, CCC 134); Learning Lab supports it; “Free”. Lists the pages taken.
• Cal-ICOR hub usage: 13 institutions on 20 hubs; users by term 9 to 1,907; summer use drops about 90 percent.
• Cal-ICOR Partner With Us: 20 partner institutions (15 CSU, 2 UC, 3 CCC) and a four-step onboarding with a choice of support model.
• CENVAL-ARC homepage: UC Merced-led regional research computing network; NSF CC* award; symposium March 2027
• Columbia Empire AI page: 700,000 service units per institution; $0.50 per unit, half paid by Columbia; free low-priority overflow
• CRB Prytaneum brief
• Empire AI access (web): Empire AI is a New York State consortium that shares an AI computer among member institutions.
• NAIRR Pilot resource allocations (web)
• NRP Acceptable Use Policy (web): The NRP Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) is a one-page user agreement.
• NRP Getting started (web): NRP has no proposal review.
• NRP Policies (web): NRP enforces efficient use with numbers.
• SDSC NAIRR Operations Center launch: NSF chose SDSC to lead the National AI Research Resource (NAIRR) Operations Center.
• UN OSET and UNDP 2024 DPI Safeguards: This is a United Nations framework for safe and inclusive digital public infrastructure (DPI).

Trade (9)

• Anthropic researcher access programs (web): Anthropic has two credit programs.
• AWS Cloud Credit for Research (web): AWS gives promotional credit to faculty, research staff and graduate students.
• Google Cloud research credits (web): Google gives Google Cloud Platform (GCP) credit to faculty, PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in listed countries.
• Google TPU Research Cloud (web): The TPU Research Cloud (TRC) gives accepted researchers Cloud Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) “at no charge”.
• Microsoft AFMR (web): Microsoft’s Accelerating Foundation Models Research (AFMR) program has ended.
• NVIDIA Academic Grant Program (web): The NVIDIA Academic Grant Program is “currently not accepting new applications”.
• OpenAI Researcher Access Program (web): OpenAI gives up to $1,000 of API (application programming interface) credit for research on responsible deployment, risk and the societal impact of AI.
• Oracle Cloud Free Tier: US$300 credit for 30 days and Always Free services; no GPU in the free tier
• StateScoop California CTO Ayushi Roy: Roy replaces Jonathan Porat; CIO Chris Given’s priorities include digital identity and AI.

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