Meet the startup helping Wall Street put a price on AI compute

摘要: Loading the player…

The AI buildout shows no signs of slowing. And with hundreds of billions of dollars a year going into data centers and GPUs, comp

正文

Loading the player…

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 TechCrunch’s

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

data centers

.

Subscribe to Equity on

Apple Podcasts

Overcast

and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on

, at @EquityPod.

来源: TechCrunch AI