SOLYSTOPIAProject Hearthmind
Can a household own its intelligence infrastructure?
A living documentation platform for the experiment: acquiring, measuring, and progressively expanding sovereign computational capability — starting with one machine, on private British land.
Evidence over ideology. Every claim here is measurable and cited, or marked as an explicit estimate, hypothesis, or research question.
Solystopia treats computational sovereignty the way it treats food, water, and energy sovereignty: not as an all-or-nothing stance, but as a capability a household can progressively acquire, measure, and improve. Project Hearthmind is that experiment, run in public.
The trajectory
Four stages, each one measured before the next is justified.
The Spark
A single NVIDIA DGX Spark establishes baseline household capability: 128GB unified memory, 1 petaFLOP FP4, 240W max draw.
The AI Workshop
The question becomes architectural: what is the smallest independently owned system that supplies most useful household intelligence?
Energy-coupled compute
Solar, battery, and a scheduler route heavy inference onto surplus generation. Waste heat becomes a design consideration, not an afterthought.
SOLYSTOPIA COMPUTE 01
A private, modular datacontainer measured on compute/£, compute/kWh, compute/m², renewable fraction, heat recovered, and repairability.
Baseline sources
- DGX Spark hardware specification — NVIDIAVendor spec
- NVIDIA DGX Spark power draw under load — A-BotsIndependent test
- DGX Spark systems and pricing — GPUsmithIndependent test
Quest dashboard
One main quest. Six side quests. Every programme starts at zero.
This is an evidence ledger, not a progress theatre. Until a purchase, build, test, or measurement is recorded, the programme remains in research with 0% completion.
The First Machine
0%Install and measure one household-owned DGX Spark on private British land.
Hearthvault
0%Local, redundant storage for models, data, and backups the household actually controls.
Hearthnet
0%A private network segment so the Spark is reachable at home without being exposed to the internet.
Hearthpower
0%Measure and eventually offset the Spark's electricity draw with on-site generation.
Hearththermal
0%Manage the heat a DGX Spark actually produces in a household room, not a server room.
Hearthmind Software
0%The inference and orchestration stack that actually runs on the Spark day to day.
Hearthdata Foundry
0%Turning household-specific documents and records into material the local models can actually use.
Building a Sovereign AI