Edition: Oct 6, 2026 · Metadata only — market data is not displayed on this site

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Compute Futures Data

Methodology

How to read this site

Every fact on this site is a dated record with its own state and, where recorded, its source references and their limitations. This page explains what those labels mean and what the current edition does — and does not — establish.

Edition of Oct 6, 2026 · updated Oct 6, 2026 at 12:04 am EDT

Scope

The site tracks four exchange futures on GPU rental-price indexes: GPU1 and GPU2 filed by NYMEX (CME Group), and HPR and BKL with published specifications on ICE Futures U.S. (Intercontinental Exchange). It records metadata and evidence — status, terms, settlement series, platform-support records — in dated editions. The current edition is dated Oct 6, 2026 and was updated Oct 6, 2026 at 12:04 am EDT; each fact keeps its own check date.

It does not show live market data, take orders, provide accounts or give investment advice. Nothing on the site updates automatically between editions.

In this snapshotCount
Contracts4
Recorded facts (contracts, benchmarks, access records, events)190
Evidence references248
Sources20
Open questions13

Three status dimensions, kept apart

A contract’s status is not one label. The site records three facts separately and never derives one from another:

  • Regulatory status — what a regulator’s record says, such as the CFTC’s “Approval Pending” for GPU1 and GPU2.
  • Listing and launch — whether the exchange has published terms, a calendar or a launch date. CME lists the launch date as TBD; ICE publishes specifications and expiry calendars.
  • Trading evidence — whether a production trade has been verified. None has, for any contract; that is an evidence assessment, not a claim that no trading occurred.

Organizations are also kept apart: NYMEX is a legal exchange within CME Group, and ICE Futures U.S. is a legal exchange within Intercontinental Exchange. A group is not the exchange, an execution platform is not a broker, and a clearing venue code is not a mapped legal clearing entity. See Regulatory status and Market access roles.

Knowledge and publication states

Each fact has a knowledge state — how much the checked sources establish — and a publication policy — what the site does with it.

Knowledge states and how many of the 190 facts are in each
StateMeaningFacts
Confirmed — shown as “Verified” with a dateAn accepted value or assessment in this snapshot, with its recorded evidence basis and verification date. It may be stated directly by a source, or be an explicitly labelled site classification or assessment based on the sources.144
Not confirmedSources were checked but did not establish the value. The field stays empty; it is not zero, absent or a negative finding.44
Under clarificationSources, or sections of one source, disagree. The value is withheld and the conflicting statements are shown.2
Not found in checked sourcesThe checked sources do not contain the field. This describes the checked scope, not whether the information exists.0
Not published by the sourceThe issuer has not published the value. It is not inferred from elsewhere.0
Not applicableThe field does not apply to this contract or record.0
Publication policies
PolicyMeaningFacts
PublishThe value is shown, with its evidence.144
Show as unknownThe field is shown with an explicit “Not confirmed” label and the sources that were checked.44
WithholdA value exists in some form but is not safe to normalize, so it is not shown or used in comparisons. Withheld is not zero.2

Unknown is never zero

An empty, unconfirmed or withheld field is shown as such. It is never filled with zero, copied from another contract, or turned into a negative statement such as “not approved” or “no trading”.

Confirmed is not the same as quoted

The knowledge state says whether a value was accepted for this snapshot; the evidence basis says how. Of the 144 confirmed facts, 134 are stated directly in a primary source and 10 are the site’s own classifications or assessments based on the sources. Those carry a “site classification” or “site assessment” label in their evidence: the listing classifications (“Specifications published” for ICE; “postponed”, shown as “Launch date TBD”, for CME), the classification of CME’s terms as filed proposed terms, and the trading-evidence assessments.

A confirmed assessment can itself be negative about the evidence. Each contract’s trading-evidence assessment is confirmed with the value “not confirmed”: the site has accepted that no production trade was verified in the sources checked. That is not evidence of a trade, and not a statement that no trading occurred.

On the page, chips summarize the state: Verified Oct 5, 2026 or Site classification · verified Oct 5, 2026 appears only inside evidence panels, Not confirmed marks unknowns and Under clarification marks conflicts or withheld values.

Dates, times and their scopes

Different dates answer different questions and are labelled separately in every evidence panel. Four kinds are kept apart:

  • Edition times are exact instants, stored in UTC and shown in US Eastern time (America/New_York), with EDT or EST as it applies to that instant. This edition was updated Oct 6, 2026 at 12:04 am EDT. The edition date is the Eastern calendar date of that update, so it can differ from the UTC date by a day.
  • Check dates — source checked, fact checked and fact verified — are UTC calendar days, recorded to the day with no clock time. They are not converted to Eastern time. A UTC check day can be one day later than the Eastern edition date without being in the future.
  • Source dates — document, expiry, first-trading, deadline and effective dates — are calendar dates as the source states them. They are never converted between timezones, and a date-only deadline gives no closing hour.
  • Trading schedules keep the exchange’s own clock: Central time (America/Chicago, CT) for CME’s filed hours and the Eastern time (ET) stated on ICE’s product pages. No live market-open clock is shown.
Edition date
The Eastern date of this edition: Oct 6, 2026. “Upcoming at snapshot” compares source dates with this date, never with today’s date.
Source document date
A date the document itself carries, such as a letter date. Shown only where recorded; many live web pages have none.
Source checked (UTC day)
The day the source copy behind the recorded facts was retrieved and read. It does not verify every field in that source.
Fact checked (UTC day)
The day of the source evidence a particular field was checked against, whatever the outcome.
Fact verified (UTC day)
Only for confirmed facts: the day of the evidence the accepted value rests on. Unknown facts have no verification date.
Effective date
When the fact took effect according to its source, where stated — otherwise “Not known”.
This edition
Only on facts re-reviewed for this edition: when the review finished and when the saved source copy it used was retrieved, both shown in Eastern time. Re-reading a saved copy does not move the fact’s check date.

Partial refresh

This edition re-reviewed 15 facts and 5 source records (S4, S13, S17, S18, S20) from source copies saved when they were retrieved, the latest at Oct 5, 2026 at 5:31 pm EDT. No source was retrieved again for it. All other facts were not re-checked and keep their earlier check dates; the edition date is not a verification date.

Source-specific exceptions

  • Trading Technologies’ update dates its CME Compute Futures section October 2, 2026. That section date is recorded as the announcement date; the update as a whole has no recorded document date, and none is inferred.
  • ICE’s generated specification PDFs display a date that can change each time the PDF is generated. It is not treated as a publication or rule effective date.
  • CME’s revised clearing advisory lists the launch date as TBD, but the revision’s publication date was not retrieved.
  • Build times and page-generation times are never shown as verification dates.

Evidence, locators and source families

Every evidence panel lists, for each displayed fact, each recorded source reference on its own: title, link, locator, role, upstream relation, check date, document date where recorded, and the source’s limitation. Sources are not grouped under one link. A fact with no recorded reference says so instead.

From source to displayed fact

Five-step diagram: source, then field claim, then evidence reference, then dates and knowledge state, then displayed fact. Each step lists what is recorded, with this edition’s counts; unknown and conflicting values are shown as “Not confirmed” or “Under clarification”.
How a source document becomes a value on a page, as described on this page. It explains existing editorial rules; it is not a schedule of checks, and nothing is re-checked automatically. Generated from the Oct 6, 2026 edition data. Open the full-size image (PNG).
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How evidence becomes a displayed fact — The editorial path behind every value on this site (edition counts)

Five steps

  • 1. Source: A regulator, exchange, index-provider or platform document, linked live. More on source

    • 20 sources in the registry

    • Source checked: a UTC day

  • 2. Field claim: One fact for one field of a contract, benchmark, access record or event. More on field claim

    • 190 recorded facts

  • 3. Evidence reference: Each reference records its source, locator and role. More on evidence reference

    • 248 references: 144 with a fact-level locator, 104 source-level

    • Supports this fact (180)

    • Checked context — does not confirm a value (67)

    • Corroborates this fact — not the governing source (1)

    • 11 facts have no reference and say so

  • 4. Dates and knowledge state: Fact checked and fact verified are UTC days; source dates stay as published. More on dates and knowledge state

    • Confirmed: 144

    • Not confirmed: 44

    • Under clarification: 2

  • 5. Displayed fact: The value with its evidence panel, or a state label instead of a value. More on displayed fact

    • Verification dates appear inside evidence panels, never as a page-wide badge

    • Not confirmed

    • Under clarification

  • Unknown is never filled with zero, copied from another contract or turned into a negative.

  • No running monitor: sources are not re-checked automatically.

Counts from the Oct 6, 2026 edition. · computefuturesdata.com

Reference roles

The edition holds 248 evidence references. Each is shown in one of these roles:

  • Supports this fact (180 references) — the source states the value or, for a labelled site classification or assessment, provides the evidence it rests on. It does not mean the source uses the site’s wording.
  • Checked context — does not confirm a value (67 references) — the source was checked for the field but did not establish it. A recorded position on such a reference says where the field was looked for; it does not establish an unknown value.
  • Corroborates this fact — not the governing source (1 reference) — a checked position that states the same value as the governing source. One rule uses this today: the CFTC comment deadline rests on the CFTC Innovation tracker (S5); footnote 3 of the NYMEX review-extension letter (S4) corroborates it, while S4 remains the supporting source for the review-extension dates themselves.

Upstream relations before this display rule: 181 “supports” and 67 “checked context”. Each panel shows the upstream relation next to the displayed role.

Locators

A locator points to the position of a fact in a source, such as a PDF page and section (144 references). A source-level locator describes the source as a whole and carries the note “Fact-specific position not recorded in this snapshot” (104 references). 11 facts have no source reference at all; they show that plainly instead of a borrowed link.

Source families

Some documents are versions of one publication. ICE HPR product page and generated PDF (S6 and S12) count as one family. ICE BKL product page and generated PDF (S7 and S13) count as one family. Each document keeps its own link and locator, but a family is never presented as two independent confirmations.

Coverage and limits

  • Partly reviewed lists. ICE Futures U.S.’s rule-filing and notice lists are dynamic. Only the first page of the exchange’s rule-filing and notice lists was reviewed (as shown on Oct 5, 2026). The ICE regulatory status is therefore “not established in the sources checked” — not a finding that no filing or approval exists.
  • Live links, no archive. Complete copies of the source documents are not archived or republished with the data. Links and locators point to the live public documents, which can change after their check dates. For evidence re-reviewed in this edition, the retrieval time and a digest of the saved copy are recorded.
  • How facts were reviewed. Facts were checked source by source with agent-assisted review. No dedicated human sign-off is recorded for this snapshot.
  • What validation proves. The build checks the data for internal consistency and publication rules before any page is produced. That is not proof of tradability, legal status or redistribution rights.
  • No running monitor. Sources are not re-checked automatically. Time-sensitive facts can go out of date after their check dates.

Open questions (13)

  1. Q01ICE’s current product-level regulatory status and regulatory pathway were not established in the sources checked. ICE’s Sep 29, 2026 notice says HPR and BKL will be listed pending completion of the CFTC’s request-for-comment period and that no listing date or timeline has been set; it gives no product-level CFTC status. The expiry calendar’s first trading date (FTD) is a calendar field and does not confirm a launch or a trade. Only the first page of ICE’s rule-filing and notice lists was reviewed, so the absence of a filing or approval cannot be claimed.
  2. Q02No production trade has been verified for any of the four contracts in this edition. Announced dates and calendar fields are not treated as trades, and no volume or open interest is shown. ICE says reference data including hypothetical daily settlement prices is available from Oct 5, 2026 for system development; those values are not trades or production settlements and are not shown. This is an evidence assessment, not a statement that no trading occurred.
  3. Q03ICE’s specification quotes the price in US dollars per contract in one section and gives a minimum fluctuation of 0.001 US dollars per GPU-hour in another. It points to a table in “Resolution 1 to this Chapter 34”, but ICE Futures U.S.’s rulebook chapter list, as checked on Oct 5, 2026, names Chapter 34 “OKX Futures”, so the intended resolution is unresolved. The normalized quote unit, trade-type tick rules and tick value are withheld until the exchange rule or an ICE clarification states them.
  4. Q04ICE contract size is a calendar-period number of GPU-hours. The calendar, timezone and daylight-saving convention for counting those hours are not confirmed, so no monthly quantity is calculated.
  5. Q05HPR’s explicit trading-hours text conflicts with a city-time table lower on the same product page. No normalized session schedule or market-open indicator is shown.
  6. Q06No exchange or broker margin amount, multiplier or account scope has been confirmed. Reference tables are not converted into customer margin.
  7. Q07CME’s revised clearing advisory 26-274 lists the launch date as TBD. Its full attachment was not retrieved, so the revision’s publication date is unconfirmed.
  8. Q08No broker or FCM has a verified product-level record for these contracts, and no account or US jurisdiction scope is established. Not finding public evidence does not mean a provider cannot offer access.
  9. Q09Trading Technologies announced day-one support tied to the original exchange date. Whether that support is deployed now that the launch date is TBD is not confirmed.
  10. Q10The exact benchmark configuration and the methodology version used for settlement are not confirmed for any of the four series.
  11. Q11No market-data display licence is recorded for this site, so price, settlement, volume, open-interest and index-history components are off. This does not mean the market has no data.
  12. Q12CME’s product-specific final payment rule is not confirmed. On ICE’s expiry calendar, FSD is a calendar field and is not treated as the final payment date. No payment date is calculated.
  13. Q13The public pages do not expose a verifiable specification version. This dataset archives no copies of the source documents; retrieval digests are recorded only for the evidence re-reviewed in this edition.

Market data boundary

No site-specific market-data grant is recorded, so prices, settlement prices, volume, open interest and index histories are not displayed, stored or offered for download. A public specification link is not a licence to redistribute data.

  • Price Not displayed
  • Settlement price Not displayed
  • Volume Not displayed
  • Open interest Not displayed

Not displaying market data does not mean the market has no data, or that permission was refused.

Source registry

All 20 sources in the edition. The registry locator describes what part of each source was reviewed; fact-specific positions appear in the evidence panels. Source checks are UTC days: Oct 5, 2026.

  1. S1 CFTC GPU1 product record 62544

    CFTC · Regulator record

    Document date
    No document date recorded
    Source checked (UTC day)
    Oct 5, 2026
    Registry locator (source-level)
    Organization / Product Name / Status / Date
    Retrieval
    Linked live; no archived copy

    Limitation
    Does not establish a production execution.

  2. S2 CFTC GPU2 product record 62545

    CFTC · Regulator record

    Document date
    No document date recorded
    Source checked (UTC day)
    Oct 5, 2026
    Registry locator (source-level)
    Organization / Product Name / Status / Date
    Retrieval
    Linked live; no archived copy

  3. S3 CME revised clearing advisory 26-274

    CME Group · Exchange notice or announcement

    Document date
    No document date recorded
    Source checked (UTC day)
    Oct 5, 2026
    Registry locator (source-level)
    Document title and revised-notice body
    Retrieval
    Linked live; no archived copy

    Limitation
    Current retrieved title states date TBD; the full advisory attachment was not exposed by this retrieval.

  4. S4 CFTC NYMEX review-extension letter

    CFTC · Regulator record

    Document date
    Sep 21, 2026
    Source checked (UTC day)
    Oct 5, 2026
    Registry locator (source-level)
    PDF page 1: concluding paragraph and footnotes
    Retrieval
    Linked live; no archived copy

    Limitation
    Deadline is not an approval decision or launch date. Footnote 3 cites the CFTC request for comment (91 FR 54259, August 21, 2026), comment period closing October 20, 2026; that Federal Register document itself was not retrieved.

    This edition · Reviewed for the Oct 6, 2026 edition on Oct 5, 2026 at 11:39 pm EDT, using the saved copy of S4 (retrieved Oct 5, 2026 at 5:28 pm EDT). No new retrieval.

  5. S5 CFTC Innovation tracker

    CFTC · Regulator record

    Document date
    No document date recorded
    Source checked (UTC day)
    Oct 5, 2026
    Registry locator (source-level)
    Innovation Tracker, row 08/19/2026
    Retrieval
    Linked live; no archived copy

    Limitation
    Category-wide consultation, not contract-level approval.

  6. S6 ICE HPR official product page

    ICE Futures U.S. · Exchange specification

    Document date
    No document date recorded
    Source checked (UTC day)
    Oct 5, 2026
    Registry locator (source-level)
    Market Specifications headings
    Retrieval
    Linked live; no archived copy

    Limitation
    Quote denominator differs between quotation and fluctuation sections. Lower city-time table conflicts with explicit session text.

    Same reference family as S12 — not an independent confirmation.

  7. S7 ICE BKL official product page

    ICE Futures U.S. · Exchange specification

    Document date
    No document date recorded
    Source checked (UTC day)
    Oct 5, 2026
    Registry locator (source-level)
    Market Specifications headings
    Retrieval
    Linked live; no archived copy

    Limitation
    Quote denominator differs between quotation and fluctuation sections.

    Same reference family as S13 — not an independent confirmation.

  8. S8 NYMEX Submission 26-370

    NYMEX, filed with CFTC · Exchange filing

    Document date
    Aug 11, 2026
    Source checked (UTC day)
    Oct 5, 2026
    Registry locator (source-level)
    PDF pp. 2–3 product table; pp. 5–6 Chapters 1045/1047
    Retrieval
    Linked live; no archived copy

    Limitation
    Filed terms are proposed terms while approval is pending. Initial schedule is not a verified current listing.

  9. S9 CME Compute futures overview

    CME Group · Exchange specification

    Document date
    No document date recorded
    Source checked (UTC day)
    Oct 5, 2026
    Registry locator (source-level)
    Getting started with Compute futures
    Retrieval
    Linked live; no archived copy

    Limitation
    Overview is corroboration; specific rules/filings govern.

  10. S10 ICE and Ornn product-program announcement

    ICE · Exchange notice or announcement

    Document date
    May 19, 2026
    Source checked (UTC day)
    Oct 5, 2026
    Registry locator (source-level)
    May 19 announcement: benchmark and regulatory caveat
    Retrieval
    Linked live; no archived copy

    Limitation
    Historical announcement does not establish current product-level regulatory state.

  11. S11 TT support update: CME Compute Futures

    Trading Technologies · Execution-platform update

    Document date
    No document date recorded
    Source checked (UTC day)
    Oct 5, 2026
    Registry locator (source-level)
    CME Compute Futures, October 2, 2026; TT Support Status
    Retrieval
    Linked live; no archived copy

    Limitation
    Day-one support promise tied to an old exchange date; not proof of deployed integration or broker-account access.

  12. S12 ICE HPR generated specification PDF

    ICE Futures U.S. · Exchange specification

    Document date
    No document date recorded
    Source checked (UTC day)
    Oct 5, 2026
    Registry locator (source-level)
    PDF pp. 1–2 field labels
    Retrieval
    Linked live; no archived copy

    Limitation
    PDF displayed date 2026-10-05 is not treated as a rule effective date; shares source family with S6.

    Same reference family as S6 — not an independent confirmation.

  13. S13 ICE BKL generated specification PDF

    ICE Futures U.S. · Exchange specification

    Document date
    No document date recorded
    Source checked (UTC day)
    Oct 5, 2026
    Registry locator (source-level)
    PDF pp. 1–2 field labels
    Retrieval
    Linked live; no archived copy

    Limitation
    PDF displayed date varies by generation (2026-10-04 at the original snapshot check; 2026-10-05 in the 2026-10-05 21:28 UTC retrieval). It is a generation date, not a publication or rule effective date; shares source family with S7.

    This edition · Reviewed for the Oct 6, 2026 edition on Oct 5, 2026 at 11:39 pm EDT, using the saved copy of S13 (retrieved Oct 5, 2026 at 5:28 pm EDT). No new retrieval.

    Same reference family as S7 — not an independent confirmation.

  14. S14 ICE HPR expiry calendar

    ICE Futures U.S. · Exchange calendar

    Document date
    No document date recorded
    Source checked (UTC day)
    Oct 5, 2026
    Registry locator (source-level)
    Expiry Details table, Nov26–Dec27 rows
    Retrieval
    Linked live; no archived copy

    Limitation
    FTD is an exchange calendar field, not evidence of an actual execution. FSD is not automatically final payment date.

  15. S15 ICE BKL expiry calendar

    ICE Futures U.S. · Exchange calendar

    Document date
    No document date recorded
    Source checked (UTC day)
    Oct 5, 2026
    Registry locator (source-level)
    Expiry Details table, Nov26–Dec27 rows
    Retrieval
    Linked live; no archived copy

    Limitation
    Same calendar/actual-execution distinction as S14.

  16. S16 ICE HPR reference margin table

    ICE · Exchange reference table

    Document date
    No document date recorded
    Source checked (UTC day)
    Oct 5, 2026
    Registry locator (source-level)
    Effective Date / Logical Code / Units
    Retrieval
    Linked live; no archived copy

    Limitation
    Retrieved table labels units as MWh. No amount is imported or converted to customer margin.

  17. S17 ICE Futures U.S. Regulation

    ICE Futures U.S. · Exchange regulation page

    Document date
    No document date recorded
    Source checked (UTC day)
    Oct 5, 2026
    Registry locator (source-level)
    Regulation introduction; Rulebook and Rule Filings sections
    Retrieval
    Linked live; no archived copy

    Limitation
    Static HTML exposed only the Energy Forms tab. A headless-browser render (2026-10-05 21:30 UTC) showed the first page of Rule Filings (100 titles, Mar 2 – Oct 5, 2026; titles only) and the Rulebook chapter list. No title on that page mentions compute, Ornn, OCPI or GPU, and the chapter list names Chapter 34 “OKX Futures”. Later pages and generic filings were not opened, so this is not an exhaustive filing search.

    This edition · Reviewed for the Oct 6, 2026 edition on Oct 5, 2026 at 11:44 pm EDT, using the saved copy of S17 (retrieved Oct 5, 2026 at 5:30 pm EDT). No new retrieval.

  18. S18 ICE Futures U.S. Notices

    ICE Futures U.S. · Exchange notice or announcement

    Document date
    No document date recorded
    Source checked (UTC day)
    Oct 5, 2026
    Registry locator (source-level)
    Exchange Notices section
    Retrieval
    Linked live; no archived copy

    Limitation
    Static HTML lacked the notice list. A headless-browser render (2026-10-05 21:30 UTC) showed page 1 of Exchange Notices (100 rows, Feb 4 – Oct 5, 2026), including one compute notice (S20). Later pages and Member and Disciplinary notices were not reviewed, so the absence of another notice cannot be claimed.

    This edition · Reviewed for the Oct 6, 2026 edition on Oct 5, 2026 at 11:44 pm EDT, using the saved copy of S18 (retrieved Oct 5, 2026 at 5:30 pm EDT). No new retrieval.

  19. S19 CME original October launch announcement

    CME Group · Exchange notice or announcement

    Document date
    Aug 11, 2026
    Source checked (UTC day)
    Oct 5, 2026
    Registry locator (source-level)
    Opening paragraph and product description
    Retrieval
    Linked live; no archived copy

    Limitation
    Historical proposed date is superseded for current launch use.

  20. S20 ICE Futures U.S. Exchange Notice: compute index reference data (Sep 29, 2026)

    ICE Futures U.S. · Exchange notice or announcement

    Document date
    Sep 29, 2026
    Source checked (UTC day)
    Oct 5, 2026
    Registry locator (source-level)
    PDF p. 1, paragraphs 2–3
    Retrieval
    Linked live; no archived copy

    Limitation
    States the exchange’s position as of Sep 29, 2026. It sets no listing date, gives no CFTC product-level status for HPR or BKL, and does not show whether a later announcement exists. The reference data it describes, including hypothetical daily settlement prices, is not trading or production settlement and is not imported.

    This edition · Reviewed for the Oct 6, 2026 edition on Oct 5, 2026 at 11:39 pm EDT, using the saved copy of S20 (retrieved Oct 5, 2026 at 5:31 pm EDT). No new retrieval.

Corrections and editorial policy

How facts are separated from explanation, and what a useful correction contains, are set out in the editorial policy and its corrections policy. The About page describes the publication’s purpose and independence.