Silicon Data's CME compute futures target a November 9th start, pending review

Carmen Li's GPU-rental benchmarks would underpin cash-settled H100 and B200 contracts, but regulators had not cleared the market as of October 21st.

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Primary source: The Wall Street Journal

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Silicon Data's benchmarks could become the reference price for a new class of GPU-rental hedges. That depends on regulatory clearance, trusted index construction and enough real buyers and sellers to create liquidity.

Silicon Data's CME compute futures are scheduled for November 9th, pending review — Carmen Li's GPU-rental benchmarks would underpin cash-settled H100 and B200 contracts, but regulators had not cleared the market as of October 21st.

Carmen Li (@carmenli) built Silicon Data around a problem she saw between AI companies' fixed prices and their volatile compute bills. Now the benchmarks she started building in 2024 are set to anchor GPU-rental futures at CME Group, with the exchange's [calendar listing November 9th as the first trading…

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