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Meet the startup helping Wall Street put a price on AI compute
The AI buildout shows no signs of slowing. Andwithhundreds ofbillions of dollars a year going into data centers and GPUs,compute hasbecome the single biggest cost for anyone building AI products. But for all that spending, there stillisn’ta straightforward way to put a price oncompute— orfor firms to hedge their exposure when the pricechanges. Silicon Data []
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Meet the startup helping Wall Street put a price on AI compute
The AI buildout shows no signs of slowing. And with hundreds of billions of dollars a year going into data centers and GPUs, compute has become the single biggest cost for anyone building AI products. But for all that spending, there still isn’t a straightforward way to put a price on compute — or for firms to hedge their exposure when the price changes.
Silicon Data just closed a $30 million Series A to change that. The startup aims to become the reference price for GPU rental and an index that a Wall Street futures contract would settle against. The company plans to launch its compute futures trading on the CME October 5th, pending regulatory approval.
On this episode of TechCrunchs Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan is joined by Steve Hou, head of research at Silicon Data, to discuss the health of the AI buildout, and why the data is telling a different story than the doom and gloom headlines about depreciating chips and stalled data centers.
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