American Tycoons are so strategic in harnessing the AI boom for profit they are setting up Futures for AI compute, like a new asset class.

The concept of "future contracts for compute" represents the transition of computing power from a utility-based service to a standardized financial commodity.

Like buying an Oil futures contract.

The U.S. is so interested in setting up dominance in AI compute and to meet capacity this is going to be crazy - since historically, compute was purchased via "pay-as-you-go" models or long-term reserved instances.

Emerging research proposes the Standard Inference Token (SIT) as a unit of measure, allowing enterprises to buy "forward" production of intelligent services just as a manufacturer buys electricity or carbon credits.

This has ponzi-scheme characteristics to over-build datacenters and power related to them.

Incredible how America is monopolizing and manipulating its AI Supremacy over the rest of the world.

This isn’t speculative, US derivatives exchange CME Group Inc. and index provider Silicon Data are teaming up to create a futures market for computing power.

The futures will help traders, financial firms, AI builders and cloud providers manage volatility and price swings, fairly good for the emerging Neo Cloud sector. Today we learned SpaceX is in talks with Google about orbital compute.

As you might know, Google ‌is pushing the space-based data center idea with Project Suncatcher, a research effort to network solar-powered satellites equipped with its Tensor Processing ​Units into an orbital AI cloud.

These futures aim to standardize and financialize AI compute similarly to how CME handles commodities like oil or metals.