ICE plans to launch a computing power futures market, as Wall Street views AI infrastructure as an emerging tradable commodity.

AIMPACT News, May 20 (UTC+8), Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, plans to launch a computing power futures market to meet pricing demands driven by AI technology. ICE is collaborating with financial infrastructure company Ornn to develop new futures contracts based on Ornn's index products, which will track the computing cost of graphics processing units (GPUs) in real time. The contracts are currently pending regulatory approval.

Additionally, on May 12, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and Silicon Data, a leader in GPU market intelligence and benchmark data, announced that they will launch a computing power futures market later this year, also awaiting regulatory review. Wall Street is positioning AI infrastructure as an emerging tradable commodity, providing price discovery and risk hedging tools for the market. ICE aims to establish a more transparent pricing mechanism for computing power, further propelling the maturation of AI-related financial markets. (Source: BlockBeats)