PowerCommons - The Open Silicon Commons

Welcome to PowerCommons

PowerCommons is an ambitious initiative to create the world’s first fully open, verifiable, and sovereign computing infrastructure based on the OpenPower architecture. We’re reviving and modernizing proven processor designs to deliver transparent, auditable, and secure computing platforms that serve the public interest rather than corporate surveillance.

In an era where digital infrastructure determines economic and political power, PowerCommons represents a crucial step toward technological independence and democratic control over computing resources.

🎯 Our Vision

From surveillance capitalism to technological commons. From corporate extraction to collective ownership. From digital feudalism to computational democracy. We envision the dawn of techno-liberation—where public ownership of silicon infrastructure dismantles the dystopia of hidden processors, backdoors, and algorithmic control. Where digital sovereignty isn’t a policy aspiration but a lived reality built on verifiable, modifiable, community-governed computing. Where every processor becomes a seed of liberation, every data center a commons, every computation an act of collective empowerment. This is the transformation from subjects of technology to sovereigns of our digital future—the fundamental reorganization of computational power from corporate monopolies to democratic control, establishing computing as a public utility as essential and universal as water or electricity, but owned by all, controlled by communities, and serving humanity rather than surveilling it.

🎯 Our Mission

To democratize access to high-performance, secure, and transparent computing by creating fully open-source processor implementations and system architectures that can be verified, modified, and deployed by anyone, anywhere, without proprietary dependencies or hidden backdoors.

📊 Project Status Summary

🏛️ Why This Matters

Digital Sovereignty

Every major processor today contains hidden management engines, proprietary firmware, and un-auditable code paths. PowerCommons changes this paradigm by ensuring every transistor’s behavior can be inspected and verified.

Post-Surveillance Computing

In alignment with post-capitalist visions of technology, PowerCommons creates computing infrastructure that serves communities rather than extracting value from them.

Technological Commons

Like public utilities and infrastructure, fundamental computing technology should be a commons - collectively owned, transparently operated, and democratically governed.

🤝 Join the Movement

For Developers

• 📦 Code Repository: codeberg.org/PowerCommons
• 🔧 Get Started: Coming soon!
• 💬 Matrix Chat: coming soon!

For Organizations

• 🏛️ Government & Critical Infrastructure: Deploy verifiable, sovereign computing
• 🎓 Academic Institutions: Research and teach with fully transparent systems
• 🏢 Industry Partners: Build secure products on open foundations

For Citizens

• 📖 Learn: Understand why open hardware matters for democracy
• 🗣️ Advocate: Support policies promoting open infrastructure
• 💰 Support: Contribute to sustainable development

🌍 Ecosystem Partners

📰 Latest Updates

September 30, 2025: NLnet Funding Proposals Submitted

Submitted NLNET funding proposal for A2O Core revival.

September 20, 2025: First Microwatt boot with LiteDRAM, clock and timing issues..

August 2025: MicroWatt VCU118 Success

Successfully booted Linux on VCU118 platform without DRAM.

July 2025: Project Inception

PowerCommons initiative launched with support from OpenPower Foundation.