A published series of what a chip’s hour rents for across many providers. Silicon Data’s indexes are what the CME contracts track and what the book’s test on Hyperion reads on 1 June 2029. The publisher has described its inputs four ways, as chapter 14 says, and its letter to the CFTC of October 2026 does not reconcile them. 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.
Also discussed in
- Dated test Chapter 14, the hour, on a proxy
Related terms
From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Rental index.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/rental-index (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-rental-index-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Rental index}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/rental-index},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}