Machinepower Index / Dossiers / Türkiye
Rank 32–39 across the scoring rules tested. How this is tested
Türkiye
Specialist Power — For nations among the world's best at something the frontier needs but could find elsewhere: keep earning the lead before others catch up, and trade expertise for access.
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 | 5.5 |
| Firm Power Capacity | Dataset | 5.7 | |
| Sovereign Compute | Dataset | 3.1 | |
| Hardware & Silicon Access | Dataset | 2.5 | |
| Weights | Frontier Model Output | Assessed | 3.1 |
| Alignment Capability | Assessed | 3.5 | |
| Regulatory Standing | Dataset | 6.8 | |
| Talent Density | Assessed | 5.0 | |
| Will | Policy Capacity | Dataset | 7.7 |
| Public Sector Adoption | Dataset | 7.8 | |
| Workforce Transition | Dataset | 6.5 | |
| Public Trust | Dataset | 7.4 |
Assessed marks a measurement we judged rather than took from a dataset: 4 of the 12 here.
Sources
Share of adults agreeing that products and services using AI have more benefits than drawbacks; the Index scores public trust as 1 + share ÷ 10. Survey of 23,532 adults across 32 countries, March to April 2026.
View source →The validated January 2026 report scores Türkiye at 58.91 overall with public-sector adoption at 77.59 — deployment will running ahead of the stack beneath it.
View source →Two TRUBA systems totalling roughly 15 petaflops are Türkiye's listed presence on the June 2026 TOP500 — thin for a G20 economy and the source of the 3.1/10 compute cell.
View source →Used for the workforce measurement. The IMF combines schooling, pay, labour mobility and active labour-market policies; the Index rescales it so the weakest of 173 economies scores 0 and the strongest 10.
View source →A cross-check for planning and permitting, which stays assessed: it scores building permits and electricity connections for ordinary firms, not grid-scale connections for data centres.
View source →Fossil, nuclear, hydro and other dispatchable plant; averaged with generation for firm power.
View source →Second source for public trust, averaged with Ipsos.
View source →Bottlenecks
These hold Türkiye below its Potential. Its two lowest scores cost it the most: hardware & silicon access at 2.5 (part of Watts) and sovereign compute at 3.1 (part of Watts).
Assessment
A state whose strongest asset is appetite: its government actually deploys what it buys, and its public is warmer on AI (65%) than most of Europe. But the material and intelligence layers trail badly: 15 petaflops of listed compute for a G20 economy, no notable models, and chip access hostage to a complicated geopolitics.
The art of the possible
Türkiye's advantage is position: energy corridors, a manufacturing base, and a foot in every bloc. The play is compute non-alignment — hosting capacity for markets that find hosting awkward elsewhere, while TRUBA-scale public compute grows into something a G20 economy can defend.
Strategic play — Specialist Power
Build on the position it already holds, combat-proven drones exported across three continents, with applied military AI as the specialism, while offering hosting to markets that find other hosts awkward and growing public compute into something a G20 economy can defend.
Leverage — the nearest position. No chokepoint in the chain, but a real position one layer up: combat-proven drones exported across three continents. Applied military AI is where Ankara holds a position rather than an ambition.
Open Türkiye in the live Index → — every source behind every number, and the comparison tool.