An Electrical Reading Cannot Identify the Computation

Abstract

Claims about a computational facility are routinely supported by electrical evidence. This paper establishes three limits on what that evidence carries. Net import at a connection point and underlying consumption are independent quantities: a worked case shows net import falling 6 MW while consumption does not move at all, so a claim established about one is not evidence for the other. Neither quantity identifies the equipment or the work behind it, so a claim about GPU identity, configuration or delivered service requires a separate observation that electrical evidence cannot supply. And naming an independent assessor does not establish independence; the operative test is whether the assessor can record an unfavourable or inconclusive result without the claimant determining it. Evidence must follow the proposition being decided, and a conclusion must stop where its observation stops.

1. 01Define the claim
2. 02Examine the evidence
3. 03Bound the conclusion