Startup bets that investors want to trade compute like a commodity

Ornn, an Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup, raised $33 million to create a marketplace for trading AI compute power as a commodity. The initiative aims to make AI development more sustainable by enabling price hedging and benchmarking, with Goldman Sachs projecting $7.6 trillion in global compute investments by 2031. Challenges include compute's non-static nature and lack of storage, but Ornn partners with Bloomberg Terminal and faces potential regulatory futures markets.