Price Index Could Clarify Opaque GPU Costs for AI

Bloomberg’s former chief data wranglers Carmen Li, and her answer was “price transparency.” Silicon Data to create a solution: the first worldwide rental price index for a GPU. SDH100RT, launched today. Every day, it will crunch 3.5 million data points from more than 30 sources around the world to deliver an average spot rental price for using an Nvidia H100 GPU for an hour. (“Spot price” is what a commodity to be delivered immediately sells for right now.) According to Li, such an index will lead to cheaper AI tools and more opportunities for a wider set of players to get involved in the AI industry. How do you get from an index to all that? Silicon Data’s origin story helps explain it. US $1.04 Rental price advantage for Nvidia H100 GPUs on the East Coast of the United States versus those on the West Coast. Until early last year, Li was in charge of global data integration at Bloomberg. In that position she met with several small companies that were trying to deliver AI-fueled data p