Builder's brief · Oct 20, 2026
1 picks. Also: nothing else cleared the bar.
1 picks. Leading: The Programmable Data Center — Evan Conrad, SF Compute.
From GPU trading to physical settlement, independent markets, and programmable compute
Live build costs from public sources. Full tables on the stack page.
AI API prices
441 models priced per 1M tokens.
Source: OpenRouter, fetched 2026-10-25
GPU rental
33 GPU models priced per GPU-hour.
Source: Vast.ai, fetched 2026-10-25
Cost of money
Bank Prime Loan Rate: 7.00% on Oct 21, 2026.
Source: FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (DPRIME)
Ownership and build openings: The Programmable Data Center — Evan Conrad, SF Compute.
From GPU trading to physical settlement, independent markets, and programmable compute
