Exchange-traded contracts on a month’s rent of one chip, an H100 or a B200, tracking Silicon Data’s rental-price indexes. CME fixed the terms on 11 August 2026 and announced listing from 5 October, pending the CFTC’s review; at the end of October 2026 the contracts were not listed, and the review was extended to 9 November. Chapter 14.
From The AI Compute Race. Read the book
Where the book uses it
- Chapter 14 — The Convergence
One campus, Meta’s Hyperion, run through four possible futures to show how science, power, money and permission meet in the price of an accelerator-hour.
Related terms
From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Compute futures.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/compute-futures (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-compute-futures-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Compute futures}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/compute-futures},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}