Global infrastructure intelligence
Four questions, continuously answered: what exists, what is changing, what is constrained, what is becoming possible.
Estimated · confidence Medium · provenance
Atlas radar composite — IEA, EIA, ENTSO-E, WRI Aqueduct, GIH pipeline, public filings · 2025. Atlas does not present modelled output as observed fact. Where confidence is low, treat the value as a hypothesis to be tested, not a measurement.
Reported = published by the named source. Estimated = Atlas estimate from partial public data. Modeled = model output, not a measurement.
Weighted mean of ten indicators. The methodology is never hidden — drill from global to country, region, city, system, asset, indicator.
Observed = direct measurement. Reported = published by the named source. Estimated = Atlas estimate from partial public data. Modeled = model output, not a measurement.
RICI — Regenerative Infrastructure Capacity Index · Modeled · medium confidence
Composite 0–100 index of a place's infrastructure capacity, access and regenerative quality.
Method. Weighted mean of ten indicators: Σ(indicator × weight), weights published in full on the Observe route.
Inputs. capacity · access · affordability · reliability · resilience · ecological integrity · human benefit · innovation capacity · capital readiness · future readiness
Caveat. Indicator scores are Atlas normalisations of heterogeneous national datasets; cross-country comparison is directional.
- International Energy Agency — Electricity 2025 / Energy & AI (2025) · https://www.iea.org
- World Bank — World Development Indicators (2024) · https://data.worldbank.org
- IRENA — Renewable Capacity Statistics (2025) · https://www.irena.org
- World Resources Institute — Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas 4.0 (2023) · https://www.wri.org/aqueduct
System capacity · Estimated · medium confidence
Normalised 0–100 measure of installed serviceable capacity in a system for the selected place.
Method. Atlas normalisation of installed capacity per capita against the global distribution for that system.
Inputs. installed capacity · population · global reference distribution
Caveat. Available capacity often differs materially from installed capacity, especially in constrained grids.
System demand · Estimated · medium confidence
Normalised 0–100 measure of current demand pressure on a system.
Method. Atlas normalisation of measured consumption plus suppressed demand proxies (unserved population, queue depth).
Inputs. consumption · unserved population · interconnection queue
System risk · Modeled · low confidence
Composite exposure of a system to physical, resource and operational failure.
Method. Weighted blend of climate hazard exposure, water stress, single-point dependency count and reserve margin.
Inputs. hazard exposure · water stress · dependency count · reserve margin
Caveat. No local grid topology or asset condition data is represented.
- World Resources Institute — Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas 4.0 (2023) · https://www.wri.org/aqueduct
- International Energy Agency — Electricity 2025 / Energy & AI (2025) · https://www.iea.org
- Atlas Sanctum — Atlas scenario model v0.4 (deterministic) (2025)
Emerging frontier movement · Estimated · medium confidence
Direction and magnitude of change on an emerging infrastructure frontier.
Method. Atlas composite of published capacity, investment and queue data, differenced year on year.
Inputs. capacity additions · investment flows · interconnection queues
Population · Reported · high confidence
Resident population of the selected geography.
Method. National census or UN mid-year estimate; metro boundaries reconciled to UN World Urbanization Prospects.
Inputs. national census · UN WUP metro definition
Caveat. Metro figures for rapidly urbanising cities are disputed by up to 20%.
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