Open World
The sandbox. Generate a valley, start with $60M and build as big as you like.
- Reroll the map and set how much mountain, forest and water it has.
- Play solo, or pick which of the four rival clouds to face.
- No win and no lose: outages, smog and the market keep it interesting.
Goals & Milestones
A career in five tiers. Each has four targets; meet them all and the board sends a grant and unlocks the next buildings and models. You start with $45M, and a week in the red is bankruptcy.
Garage Lab
Where you start, with $45M. Open from the beginning: gas plants, diesel, pumps, cooling towers, Datacenters and open-weight models.
To move up:
- Serve 2M tok/s
- Revenue $400.0K/day
- Deploy 2 different models
- Reputation 60%
Regional Provider
Reaching it pays $10M and unlocks licensed models up to 8 GPUs, batteries, solar, air chillers, reservoirs, Network Hubs and liquid cooling.
To move up:
- Serve 8M tok/s
- Revenue $3.00M/day
- Reputation 70%
- Ride out a grid outage with no datacenter going dark
Cloud Contender
Reaching it pays $25M and unlocks hyperscale Datacenters, 16-GPU frontier models, wind, satellite uplinks, heat exchangers and dams.
To move up:
- Serve 25M tok/s
- Revenue $12.00M/day
- 1000 people in the valley
- Community 70%
National Cloud
Reaching it pays $60M and unlocks the biggest frontier models, training clusters, training your own, the Headquarters, geothermal and nuclear.
To move up:
- Serve 60M tok/s
- Revenue $40.00M/day
- Train your own model
- Reputation 85%
Hyperscaler
The top of the career. You have won, and can keep playing.
Scenarios
Take over a campus someone else broke. Each opens with a briefing, has one problem to solve before a deadline, and ends with up to three stars. Your best stars are kept.
Nobody Shows Up
The last operator built two datacenters, cooling and all, and forgot one thing: there isn't a single road to the campus. No staff can get in, so the towers sit idle and not one token gets served.
Serve 8M tokens/sec for 6 hours straight, within 3 days.
3 stars: within 1.5 days · 2 stars: within 2.5 · 1 star: within 3
The Brownout
Four datacenters run on two solar farms and a battery bank. Every evening the sun sets, the battery runs dry and the whole campus goes dark until morning. Customers have noticed.
Keep every datacenter lit for 3 days running, within 10 days.
3 stars: within 4 days · 2 stars: within 6 · 1 star: within 10
Hot Summer
A five-day heat wave has just begun. Your two hyperscale datacenters share a single cooling tower, which was plenty in spring. In this heat the towers lose a third of their punch, and the racks are already running hot. Overheated racks throttle, and customers leave.
Keep the datacenters cooled 90% of the time until the heat wave breaks (5 days).
3 stars: cooled 98% of the time · 2 stars: 94% · 1 star: 90%
Angry Neighbours
Someone put two gas plants on the edge of Maple Hollow. The village has had enough: protesters blockade the plants, the campus has lost its power, and they won't go home until the smog is dealt with.
Two days running with no protest, the town at 80% and 4M tokens/sec served, within 10 days.
3 stars: within 4 days · 2 stars: within 7 · 1 star: within 10
Bleeding Money
Four datacenters, the regional grid's priciest power, and the cheapest models money can't buy: every rack serves Llama 3.1 8B at ten cents a million tokens. The campus loses about half a million a day.
Make a profit two days in a row, within 8 days.
3 stars: within 3 days · 2 stars: within 5 · 1 star: within 8
The Storm Season
Winter on the ridge. Storms knock the regional grid out almost every day, and three datacenters run on nothing else: no batteries, no generators, no plan.
Keep the datacenters lit 95% of the time through 8 days of storms.
3 stars: lit 99.5% of the time · 2 stars: 98% · 1 star: 95%
Price War
Rainforest, Cerulean, Gaggle and Soothsayer Cloud have moved into the valley, and a price war has started. Your datacenters serve last year's cheap open models, and customers are leaving for better ones.
Earn $750K in a single day, about seven times what you make now, within 10 days.
3 stars: within 2 days · 2 stars: within 5 · 1 star: within 10
The Old Fleet
It's day 42. Your two datacenters still run H100s, five years old, flat out on the most popular models, and customers are being turned away. Feynman GPUs do six times the work of an H100.
Serve twice as many tokens as when you took over, averaged over a whole day, within 10 days.
3 stars: within 4 days · 2 stars: within 7 · 1 star: within 10
Dry Season
An autumn drought has the river at half its usual level, and it'll stay low for days. One pump feeds all four cooling towers of your three hyperscale datacenters. At half flow, half the towers run dry.
Keep the datacenters cooled 90% of the time until the rains come (5 days).
3 stars: cooled 98% of the time · 2 stars: 94% · 1 star: 90%
The Bottleneck
Four datacenters, plenty of power, plenty of cooling, and customers queuing. But every token leaves through a single fiber link to the Internet Exchange, and it's full.
Serve 12M tokens/sec for 6 hours straight, within 3 days.
3 stars: within 1.5 days · 2 stars: within 2.5 · 1 star: within 3
Homegrown
Licensing a frontier model costs more than this little company is worth. The board has a better idea: train one of your own. Every GPU on the campus is busy serving, though.
Serve 1M tokens/sec of a model you trained yourself, within 9 days.
3 stars: within 4 days · 2 stars: within 6 · 1 star: within 9
Overnight Success
A chatbot app built on your API has topped the app stores overnight, and demand has gone through the roof. You have one datacenter, a valley of empty land, and the investors' money.
Serve 24M tokens/sec, three and a half times what you serve now, for 6 hours straight, within 4 days.
3 stars: within 1.5 days · 2 stars: within 2.5 · 1 star: within 4
Tutorial, saves and options
Tutorial
Fifteen steps to your first working datacenter. The button to press pulses, the spot on the map glows, and the camera takes you there.
Saved games
Every game saves itself each game day and whenever you leave. Continue lists them all with a picture of the campus, in tabs per mode.
Options
Fullscreen, an interface from 90% to 130%, separate music and sound volumes, and a shadows switch for older graphics.