Data Catalyst Institute
The Data Catalyst Institute (DCI) is a research organization focused on improving public policy and advancing informed debate about the forces shaping the frontier economy.
Economic abundance, competitive markets, private investment, technological innovation, and widespread adoption are foundations of American growth and leadership.
The Data Catalyst Institute is focused on the foundations of the frontier economy: energy, compute, and work.
We produce rigorous, nonpartisan research and analysis on how market-oriented economies can accelerate innovation, expand productive capacity, and translate technological advancement into durable growth. Our work helps business and policy leaders understand how governments, markets, and public concerns shape that progress, and make credible, evidence-based arguments for growth that benefits businesses, workers, consumers, and communities.
Energy
The frontier economy is colliding with an energy system built for a slower era. DCI examines how market-oriented economies can expand abundant, affordable, reliable energy fast enough to support investment, growth, and technological leadership, while delivering tangible benefits for consumers and communities.
Topical areas of interest include:
- Energy abundance
- Electricity generation
- Grid capacity
- Alternative energy
- Financing and investment
- Emerging tech and next-gen energy
- Geopolitical perspectives
Compute
The race to lead in AI and the wider frontier economy runs through computing capacity. DCI studies the systems, markets, and policies determining where compute gets built, how quickly capacity can expand, and who captures the economic and strategic advantage.
Topical areas of interest include:
- Artificial intelligence
- Data centers
- Chips and semiconductors
- Quantum computing
- Cryptocurrency and blockchain
- Robotics and automation
Work
Frontier technologies have moved inside organizations and are rapidly reshaping how work gets done. DCI examines how companies, workers, and policymakers can capture the productivity gains of AI and automation, build trust in technological change, strengthen workforce capabilities, and expand economic opportunity.
Topical areas of interest include:
- AI adoption, training, and trust
- Workforce automation
- AI tools and workforce transformation
- Human-AI collaboration
- Human resources, skills, and hiring
- Organizational growth
DCI approaches energy, compute, and work as interconnected arenas of competition over investment, innovation, productivity, industrial capacity, and economic strength. These systems increasingly constrain and reinforce one another. More compute requires more energy. More technological capability only creates value when businesses deploy it effectively. Greater productivity and economic growth create further demand for energy, infrastructure, investment, and innovation. DCI exists to study this system as a whole and identify where enterprise success can produce broader public benefits.
DCI pursues its mission through original research, independent expertise, public discussion, and collaboration with organizations working on aligned issues.