Compute Village, a Texas-based AI data center company, is partnering with open-source project DorkOS and Vault Cloud to build fully integrated private AI; one owned stack that spans the hardware, the inference, the chat interface, and a router to open-weight models.
The aim is the businesses that need this most — the small and mid-sized companies priced out of six-figure enterprise contracts. And the point isn't to replace anyone's job. It's to give a small team capable AI that runs on its own data, inside its own walls, ensuring customer records, proprietary code, and financial data never train a third-party model. The partnership opens with three commitments toward that goal.
Sovereign AI & the importance of owning your learning loop
We are launching the Compute Village AI Lab, and with it an AI factory co-op: members own the hardware, run open-weight models, and keep the learning loop and the IP it produces. Every correction, document, and workflow compounds into a private model that gets smarter on your data and answers only to you. Rent your AI and that advantage accrues to a vendor; own it and it compounds for you.
To build the Lab in the open, Compute Village is donating an RTX 6000 to the open-source project DorkOS, so its software runs on the same hardware Vault Cloud does. Vault Cloud is the first product to spin out of the Lab.
Leading it is Dorian Collier, DorkOS's creator and a two-time exited founder who built Warner Bros.' Matrix and Space Jam collectibles platform at Nifty's. As VP of Product, Agents, he will lead a new Vault Cloud product line, first shipping Fall 2026.
His hire reflects what Compute Village stands for: AI that is private, sovereign, and owned by the people who use it, built to strengthen small-business communities instead of hollowing them out.
Rent your AI from a dozen vendors and your data trains all of them. This is the whole stack, chip to models to agents, private by design, because you own it.
"As an open-source developer at heart, and an early contributor to projects like Red Hat, I believe every small business deserves high tech without big tech. Designing a suite of modular inference solutions that empowers them is a challenge we are more than willing to accept."— Michael Lewis, VP, Data Center Operations, Compute Village
The whole AI stack — chip, models, and agents — built to be owned. The first Vault Cloud products ship Fall 2026.
High tech. Without big tech.
Secure your business data. Ownership included. Shipping Fall 2026.
About Compute Village. Compute Village is a Texas-based AI data center company building behind-the-meter compute for private AI. It operates Vault Cloud.
About DorkOS. DorkOS is an open-source operating system for AI agents — giving them memory, file access, coordination between agents, and scheduled tasks.
About Vault Cloud. Vault Cloud is private AI a company owns: dedicated hardware running open models, with agents that work on your data without it leaving your walls.
