Machinepower Index / Dossiers / Morocco
Rank 42–50 across the scoring rules tested. How this is tested
Morocco
Compute Rentier — For nations whose main asset is the ground itself, meaning cheap clean power, land and stability: host other nations' compute and turn geography into rent, jobs and relevance.
How the Score, Potential and bottleneck cost are worked out: methodology.
The three layers
Energy, grids, data centres and silicon — the physical capacity to run models at scale.
Epoch AI records no large AI clusters or data centres here yet.
Models, alignment capability, standards influence and the talent that produces them.
The capacity to wire AI into the state and the economy while holding public consent.
Where the score comes from
| Layer | Sub-dimension | Basis | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Watts | Planning & Permitting | Assessed | 6.0 |
| Firm Power Capacity | Dataset | 3.0 | |
| Sovereign Compute | Dataset | 2.0 | |
| Hardware & Silicon Access | Dataset | 3.0 | |
| Weights | Frontier Model Output | Dataset | 3.0 |
| Alignment Capability | Assessed | 3.2 | |
| Regulatory Standing | Dataset | 7.9 | |
| Talent Density | Assessed | 3.3 | |
| Will | Policy Capacity | Dataset | 2.3 |
| Public Sector Adoption | Dataset | 3.5 | |
| Workforce Transition | Dataset | 5.4 | |
| Public Trust | Assessed | 7.6 |
Assessed marks a measurement we judged rather than took from a dataset: 4 of the 12 here.
Sources
A modernising grid and investor-friendly rules; evidence on connection times is thin.
View source →Signed only the 2025 Paris statement; no safety body.
View source →A cross-check for planning and permitting, which stays assessed: it scores permits and electricity connections for ordinary firms, not grid-scale connections for data centres.
View source →Largest: Toubkal.
View source →Stanford does not count Morocco. Estimated from 0.9 million GitHub developers and Oxford Insights' diffusion pillar, calibrated on the nations Stanford counts.
View source →Feeds governance and public-sector adoption; policy capacity is listed separately.
View source →No AI survey in the last three years covers it; set at the median of the 15 surveyed emerging and developing economies in the Index.
View source →Feeds workforce, rescaled across 173 economies.
View source →Fossil, nuclear, hydro and other dispatchable plant; averaged with generation for firm power.
View source →Bottlenecks
These hold Morocco below its Potential. Its two lowest scores cost it the most: sovereign compute at 2.0 (part of Watts) and policy capacity at 2.3 (part of Will).
Assessment
Morocco has a stable state, fast-growing renewables and short cable links to Europe, but little compute, few models and a government only starting to use AI.
The art of the possible
Large renewable-powered campuses planned for the Atlantic coast would let Morocco host compute for Europe across a short cable.
Strategic play — Compute Rentier
Host Europe's overflow: build renewable campuses on the coast and sell the power as compute across the strait.
Leverage — the nearest position. No chokepoint. Its nearest key is phosphate, not AI: Morocco holds most of the world's reserves, which matter to food, not chips.
Open Morocco in the live Index → — every source behind every number, and the comparison tool.