Rate cards and real deals rarely match, and compute is no exception. That is why the Ornn Compute Price Index in the latest @TheDAOLabs article caught my eye.
OCPI is built from confirmed secondary and bilateral deals rather than public rate cards, so it reflects what buyers paid. For a market heading toward derivatives on ICE, that kind of data is the foundation, and great material for #DAOVERSE research posts.
If a barrel of oil is 42 gallons, what is a unit of AI power?
In Part 3 of our Compute as an Asset series, we dive into how the market prices a GPU-hour, why Wall Street giants are building benchmarks with Silicon Data and ICE, and why electricity is half the real cost.
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