About Civic Compute
Democratizing AI compute infrastructure for the exclusive benefit of educational communities and the institutions that anchor rural America.
Our Mission
Traditional industrial data centers drain communities. They consume millions of gallons of public water, strain local electrical grids, acquire land through closed-door processes, and ship revenue to Wall Street rather than to the towns that host them.
Civic Compute was designed from the ground up to address every one of these outcomes — not as a workaround, but by design.
We embed high-performance GPU compute directly into existing institutional infrastructure — community colleges, CareerTech centers, and research parks — and return every dollar of economic value to the institutions and communities that host it.
Our Commitments
- Education First — Build infrastructure around learner, faculty, and workforce needs.
- Institutional sovereignty — Keep local governance, budgets, and decision-making in the community.
- Operational clarity — Make access, allocation, billing, and reporting understandable.
- Practical innovation — Pair enterprise-grade orchestration with approachable deployment.
- Shared upside — Enable recurring compute revenue to remain with participating institutions.
Dan Golden, CSPO, MIT
With over 30 years of experience in enterprise software design, implementation, management, and consulting, Dan is responsible for platform architecture, software infrastructure, and technical product leadership for the 3COL suite of applications. Dan has a Master of Information Technology from American Intercontinental University and is a Doctoral Candidate of Business Administration at Salem University
Rik Warren
Rik brings 25 years of serial venture experience spanning real estate development (single-family, multifamily, and adaptive reuse), location-based services, wireless peripherals (personal safety, automotive, and medical), multi-parametric medical wearable development, and SaaS platforms for virtual healthcare delivery. He holds a BS in Psychology from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
Dr Mike Carter, PhD
Leads trust network development, institutional navigation, and state-level stakeholder engagement. Mike served as CEO of several community colleges in Oklahoma. He has also been elected as a board member for Community Colleges. Mike is well acquainted with the minutiae of dealing with the Board of Regents, as well as their CareerTech state-level certification.
The Civic Compute Difference
Absolute Data Security
We provide raw, sovereign computing power that is completely air-gapped from your institution’s internal networks. Zero access to your institutional data. Complete local data privacy, guaranteed.
Grid Protection
Advanced power orchestration allows our nodes to automatically throttle electricity consumption in milliseconds during peak demand — actively protecting the local power grid from brownouts.
Thermal Recovery
Liquid thermal output from our compute systems can be recycled directly into institutional boilers and HVAC — eliminating volatile fossil fuel heating costs.
Cooperative Governance
Revenue distribution is transparent, auditable, and governed by the cooperative’s own board. Every participating institution holds a stake proportional to the GPU capacity it contributes.