Public infrastructure · Gov. Code § 11546.8
Public compute for
California's researchersfoundersbuildersbreakthroughs
CalCompute is California's publicly owned AI cloud — the compute behind the state's research and innovation, owned by the public and accountable to Californians. Established by California law.
"Fostering research and innovation that benefits the public… by expanding access to computational resources."
— California Senate Bill 53 · Gov. Code § 11546.8
Built for California's public research ecosystem — and everyone it serves
The platform
What you could do on CalCompute
Public infrastructure for the full arc of AI work — from training a model to shipping it.
Train and fine-tune models
Run large training and fine-tuning workloads on a fully owned, publicly operated cloud — the compute serious AI work demands, without a private landlord.
Power your research
Give your lab access to the machines it can't buy alone. CalCompute exists to foster research and innovation that benefits the public.
Build and deploy AI
Take applications from prototype to production on public infrastructure — startups and builders included, not just the labs that can afford their own datacenter.
Get expert support
Work with people whose job is to help you run on, train on and get the most out of CalCompute — human expertise built into the platform by law.
Who it's for
Built for the Californians the market prices out
One public floor of access — for the people, labs and companies private compute leaves behind.
Researchers & academics
Public compute for the universities and labs priced out of the private market — so the people who study AI in the public interest can actually run it.
Request access →Startups & builders
A public floor of access for California's founders — room to train, test and ship without wiring your runway to a single cloud provider.
Request access →Public sector & workforce
Infrastructure that serves the state and the people who run it — built to strengthen California's public technology workforce, not sideline it.
Request access →Why public
A cloud that answers to Californians
The difference isn't the hardware. It's who owns it, and who it's built to serve.
Publicly owned
CalCompute is public infrastructure, not a private product — a fully owned and hosted cloud platform, held in common rather than rented from Big Tech.
Accountable by design
Accountability is written into the structure, not left to goodwill. Public infrastructure, governed in the open, for the people who rely on it.
Your data stays in California
Compute owned and operated in the public interest — so the data and the decisions ride with Californians, under California law.
Build on California's public cloud
Tell us about your work and what you need to run. We'll follow up by email.