Edition 0 is the foundational survey of all 194 States. Supplement A tests the relationship between physical infrastructure and constitutional infrastructure. Supplement B publishes the full ranking tables. Supplement C re-runs Supplement A with the United States excluded as an outlier-sensitivity test. Each is released by the Office of the Custodian under a standing Correction Notice protocol.
Edition 0 is the foundational survey. Supplement A tests the relationship between physical investment and legal-constitutional infrastructure across the world's top 100 data-center markets. Supplement B publishes explicit ranking tables — by composite, by pillar, and by region. Supplement C re-runs the Supplement A analysis with the United States excluded, to test outlier sensitivity and surface what the global picture looks like in the community ex-US.
Full methodology, four global charts, per-State entries for Tiers A, B, and C, and the standing Correction Notice protocol. The first complete picture of the world's data-sovereignty posture.
The headline finding: across the world's top 100 data-center markets, the correlation between physical investment and Pillar I (legal foundation) is r = 0.352 — moderate-to-weak. Compliance Gap and Haven Opportunity cohorts.
Explicit ranking tables of all 194 States by composite, by each of the five pillars, and by region. A working reference for analysts, investors, and policymakers.
Re-runs the Supplement A analysis with the United States removed. Pillar I correlation moves from r = 0.352 to r = 0.375 — every correlation strengthens with the outlier removed. Recalculated regional profile in which Europe becomes decisively the largest region in the global community ex-US.
The most comprehensive picture of the world's data-sovereignty posture available today. Everything the Initiative has published in Edition 0 — at a meaningful saving over individual prices.
All three analytical companions to Edition 0. For analysts who already hold the base edition or who only require the investment correlations, ranking tables, and outlier-sensitivity test.
Focused analyses of the world's most consequential data-sovereignty actors. Each Special Report extends Edition 0's open-source methodology with detailed treatment of constitutional, technical, identity, infrastructure, and ecosystem postures specific to that State or region.
People's Republic of China — comprehensive treatment of PIPL, DSL, CSL, the cyberspace administration, and Pillar IV (data-center) trajectory.
United States of America — sectoral privacy regime, state-level laws, federal cybersecurity strategy, and the world's largest data-center footprint.
Russian Federation — federal data localization regime, sovereign-internet program, and the country's distinct posture toward cross-border data flows.
Federative Republic of Brazil — LGPD implementation, ANPD's first cycle, the constitutional protection of data, and the South American data-haven question.
Republic of India — DPDP Act, Aadhaar, the Indian-stack identity model, and the country's emergence as a major data-center destination.
Republic of South Africa — POPIA, the Information Regulator, regional data-center leadership, and the African Union's data policy framework.
European Union — GDPR, the AI Act, Data Act, DGA, and the Digital Services regime. The most comprehensive supranational data-sovereignty architecture in the world.
| Feature | Edition 0 | Supplement A | Supplement B |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open-source data sources cited | All 13 | DC datasets emphasized | All 13 |
| Per-State entries (Tiers A, B, C) | Yes | — | — |
| Composite scores | Tier A & B (128 States) | top 100 DC markets | All 128 ranked |
| Pillar averages and pillar leaders | Yes | Per-pillar correlations | Yes — by pillar |
| Pearson correlation analysis | — | Headline finding | — |
| Regional breakdown | Yes | — | Yes |
| Provisional scoring caveats | Yes | Yes — inherited | Yes — inherited |
| Correction Notice protocol | Annex E | Inherited | Inherited |
| Page count | 122 | 38 | 74 |
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No conclusion in any of these publications is intended to characterize the long-run trajectory of any named State. The composite scores are point-in-time readings, drawn from open sources, prior to the first Charter signing cycle. Every per-State entry carries a footer line stating the State's right to request correction of its entry — and the Office of the Custodian commits to publishing a corrected entry within thirty days of receiving a written request from the State's government, ministry, or designated representative. The correlations in Supplement A test linear association between two indices on the joined 100-country dataset; they do not, and are not intended to, support causal claims.
Where the analysis identifies States in which data-center investment has, on the public record, materially outpaced the constitutional and legal infrastructure of data sovereignty, the framing throughout is one of opportunity for collaboration — never of failure or non-compliance.