Carmen Li pushes GPU index toward a compute futures market

Carmen Li, who leads Silicon Data and Compute Exchange, is working to build a market where GPU compute can be traded like oil, advancing what is billed as the first GPU rental price index and a futures tie-up with CME Group. The vision was laid out on the latest episode of Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast in a conversation with Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway. Recorded live at City Winery in New York, the episode centered on the thesis that a compute market could eventually grow larger than the oil market, and on the difficulty of constructing a GPU index.