Warmth Engine Observatory (WEO)

AI Infrastructure Coordination Dynamics

Overview

The Warmth Engine Observatory tracks AI infrastructure coordination dynamics across geopolitical blocs through verified events and mapped Coordination Connections.

Scope: WEO tracks systemic AI infrastructure coordination — observable coordination dynamics between major power centres (currently nation-states and geopolitical blocs). This differs from operational AI infrastructure management, which addresses how organisations run their own AI systems.

Live Platform: www.warmthengine.com

Platform Components

• Event Database — Verified AI infrastructure coordination events classified by tier (Cross-Bloc, Between-Bloc, Intra-Bloc) and domain (Energy/Infrastructure, Security, Technology, Trade), tagged by industry sector (11-category GICS-anchored taxonomy) and assessed for environmental intersections via Environmental Nexus Tags (5-type ENT taxonomy with Warmth Engine Ratio)
• Coordination Connections — Documented relationships between events revealing structural patterns across the database (Policy Cascade, Joint Issuance, Funding Flow, Regulatory Enablement, Response, Framework Family, Parallel Policy)
• Interactive Map — Geographic visualisation of global AI infrastructure deployment
• Interactive Atlas — Network, timeline, and connectedness analytical surface for exploring coordination topology and event relationships via Cytoscape.js
• Evidence-Based Verification — Every event verified through primary and corroborating sources with gold standard evidentiary requirements
• Sovereign Capability Profiles — 7-dimension framework assessing 14 state actors' sovereign control across the AI infrastructure stack, with four designation levels (PAA, AIK, ACS, Participant)
• MCP Integration — Model Context Protocol server at warmthengine.com/mcp exposing seven programmatic tools for AI systems to query verified Coordination Intelligence (search_events, get_event, get_connections, get_connection_by_id, get_actors, get_coverage_stats, get_methodology)

Architecture

The platform uses a decoupled architecture: HTML files serve as lightweight UI shells that fetch data dynamically from the WEO API (Cloudflare Worker + KV).

• Data source: Cloudflare KV via WEO API (warmthengine.com/api/)
• MCP endpoint: warmthengine.com/mcp (Model Context Protocol for AI agent access)
• Authentication: Token-based (?token=weo_xxx) for API and MCP consumers; password header for website
• Fallback: Static JSON file for API downtime resilience
• Hosting: GitHub Pages with custom domain
• Routes: Managed via wrangler.toml (warmthengine.com/api/* and warmthengine.com/mcp*)

Data updates flow through the API — no HTML changes required for new events or connections.

Methodology Documentation

The WEO methodology is documented across four publications, all available on Zenodo with DOI registration:

Core Documentation

Methodology Extensions

Self-Hosted Documentation

The V1.4 Manual and Rationale are self-hosted as navigable HTML with granular section anchoring:

• Manual: warmthengine.com/research/methodology/manual/ (448 section anchors)
• Rationale: warmthengine.com/research/methodology/rationale/ (172 section anchors)

A semantic dictionary (data/weo-methodology-map.json) maps 166 WEO-specific terms to their methodology section anchors, serving both human tooltip navigation and the MCP get_methodology tool.

Repository Structure

warmth-engine-observatory/
├── index.html                  # Main platform (interactive map)
├── atlas.html                  # Interactive atlas (network/timeline/connectedness)
├── events.html                 # Events database
├── methodology.html            # Methodology overview
├── blocs.html                  # Bloc analysis
├── research.html               # Research publications
├── about.html                  # About WEO
├── support.html                # Supporter access
├── legal.html                  # Legal information
├── 404.html                    # Custom error page
├── data/
│   ├── events-free.json            # Static fallback (free-tier event data)
│   └── weo-methodology-map.json    # 166 term-to-anchor semantic mappings
├── research/
│   └── methodology/
│       ├── manual/                 # Self-hosted V1.4 Manual (HTML + PDF)
│       └── rationale/              # Self-hosted V1.4 Rationale (HTML + PDF)
├── sitemap.xml                 # XML sitemap for search engines
├── robots.txt                  # Crawler directives
├── og-image.png                # Open Graph social preview image
├── favicon_48x48.png           # Browser tab icon (48px)
├── favicon_32x32.png           # Browser tab icon (32px)
├── favicon_16x16.png           # Browser tab icon (16px)
├── CNAME                       # Custom domain configuration
├── LICENSE.md                  # Licence information
└── README.md                   # This file

Citation

If using this platform or its methodology in research, please cite:

Warmth Engine Observatory (WEO)
Warmth Engine, 2026
https://www.warmthengine.com
Licensed under CC BY 4.0

Contact

• Website: warmthengine.com
• Email: warmthengine@proton.me

Acknowledgements

This platform uses the following open-source libraries and typefaces:

• Leaflet (BSD-2-Clause) — Interactive map functionality
• Leaflet.markercluster (MIT) — Map marker clustering
• Geist (SIL Open Font Licence) — Primary typeface
• Geist Mono (SIL Open Font Licence) — Monospace typeface
• Cytoscape.js (MIT) — Network graph visualisation (Atlas)

Licence

Methodology documentation is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.

The platform, event database, and data products are proprietary.

See LICENSE.md for full details.