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Compute Market Tracker / Method

How the tracker works

The same method as the Ledger, pointed at traded compute. Machines collect and check. A rule a person set decides what is published.

Snapshot
compute-2026-W44
As of
1 November 2026
DAP Standard
2026.2
Method
compute-1.0
Published
1 November 2026

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    Sources a machine may read

    Every source is listed with its terms of use before anything is read from it. Only sources a machine may read are used: a source whose terms bar robots is left out. A source reaches this page only when a rule clears it or Brendan Sibeth approves it.

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    Sensed twice a week

    A scheduled job fetches each source, honours its robots.txt, and keeps a SHA-256 hash of the exact page. It keeps the hash, never the page. It also asks DAP Bellwether what financial regulators published on compute.

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    Every fact cited

    Each fact is tied to a short span of words on its source. The job checks the span is still there. A field whose span is not found, or whose source is not cleared, is left blank or held back.

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    Classified by rule

    Each contract is placed in the DAP Standard 2026.2 by fixed rules: segment K.04.05 for traded compute capacity, its form, the venue's jurisdiction, and the risk tags that follow from how it settles. No model assigns a label.

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    List prices from the providers' own feeds

    The price charts read each cloud provider's own machine-readable price feed: the AWS Price List Bulk API, which publishes one price list a month back to 2015, and the Azure Retail Prices API, which states each current price and the date it took effect. Each provider is its own line, never averaged. The GPU model and count come from the provider's own specification page, and the price per GPU-hour is the listed price per instance-hour divided by that count.

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    Published by rule

    After each run the snapshot is rebuilt and publishes itself only when every check passes: every fact found on its source, nothing published before has disappeared, no contract's status moves backwards, and no list price moves more than 75 per cent in one step. Any failed check holds the snapshot and alerts Brendan Sibeth, who set the rule. Published snapshots are kept and stay downloadable. Corrections are listed with the snapshot that carries them.

What the tracker does not do

  • It does not publish index values. They belong to their publishers.
  • It does not publish a price of its own, or anything a contract could settle against. List prices are shown as each provider publishes them, one line per provider.
  • It does not trade, broker or advise. It records what is public and links to it.