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title: "Rental index: what it means · The AI Compute Race · DRYBURGH"
source: https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/rental-index
description: "Rental index: A published series of what a chip's hour rents for across many providers."
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# Rental index

What does “Rental index” mean?

Rental indexA 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](https://dryburgh.com/vol1#buy)

## Where the book uses it

- [Chapter 14 — The Convergence](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes/chapter-14)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](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests#2029-4)

## Related terms

- [Hyperion](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/hyperion)
- [Accelerator-hour](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/accelerator-hour)
- [B200](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/b200)
- [Break fee](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/break-fee)
- [Break-point](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/break-point)
- [Bridge power](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/bridge-power)
- [Capital recovery](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/capital-recovery)
- [Clearing house](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/clearing-house)
- [Commodity infrastructure](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/commodity-infrastructure)
- [Compute futures](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/compute-futures)
- [Deemed export](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/deemed-export)
- [Distressed asset](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/distressed-asset)

From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.

- [Campuses](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger)
- [Tests](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests)
- [Scorecard](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/scorecard)
- [Data](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/data/releases)
- [Chapter by chapter](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/companion)
- [The record at a glance](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/observatory)
- [The machine](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/machine)
- [One campus, four futures](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/hyperion)
- [Glossary](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary)
- [People](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/people)
- [Sources](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/sources)
- [Notes](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes)
- [Where the book was wrong](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/corrections)
- [Where its sources were wrong](https://dryburgh.com/corrections?book=vol1)
- [The Paper](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/paper)
- [Consent](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/consent)
- [Who builds and pays](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties)

*The AI Compute Race: Five Races, One Machine* is a book by Lee S. Dryburgh, the first volume of THE COMPUTE ECONOMY, published by Dryburgh, an imprint of Contestra OÜ, Tallinn, Estonia; its record closes on 8 November 2026.

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