CME to launch AI compute futures on October 5
- —CME will list two AI compute futures contracts on October 5, 2026
- —Contracts track Silicon Data's Nvidia index with a 36-month forward curve
- —B200 capacity rents for about $5.86 per hour versus $2.77 for H100
- —Listed miners have signed over $70 billion in AI and HPC contracts in a year
Why it matters: A liquid compute benchmark would give miners a hedging tool and could accelerate their shift into AI data center operators.
Source: Cryptopolitan