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Wednesday, September 23, 2026
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UK-based Nscale signed a deal with Spring (SG) Pte Ltd, which is a subsidiary of Chinese tech giant ByteDance. The company did not make any direct mention of the TikTok parent in its filings for a U.S. IPO, while a supporting document only labeled Spring as a significant…
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Commodity tape
How this is pricedCompute
A100 80GB
$1.97
$/GPU-hr
6 of 8 houses · $1.38–$2.79
H100 SXM
$4.06
$/GPU-hr
9 of 11 houses · $2.89–$6.16
H200
$5.21
$/GPU-hr
3 of 5 houses · $4.59–$6.30
B200
$6.65
$/GPU-hr
4 of 6 houses · $6.25–$6.89
B300
$7.54
$/GPU-hr
3 of 5 houses · $6.60–$8.12
Gas
Henry Hub
$3.170
$/MMBtu
+0.258 on the day
Power
ERCOT North
$78.49
$/MWh
Dallas · real time
ERCOT West
$73.87
$/MWh
Abilene · real time
ERCOT Houston
$98.33
$/MWh
Houston · real time
CAISO NP15
$37.35
$/MWh
Silicon Valley · real time
CAISO SP15
$25.95
$/MWh
Los Angeles · real time
MISO Illinois
$34.21
$/MWh
Central Illinois · real time
MISO Indiana
$35.97
$/MWh
Indiana hub · real time
Columbus
$109.70
$/MWh
AEP Ohio PTC · to Sep 30
Waterford
$109.70
$/MWh
AEP Ohio PTC · to Sep 30
NYC Zone J
$39.50
$/MWh
New York · real time
Long Island
$39.46
$/MWh
NYISO LONGIL · real time
Palo Verde
$37.90
$/MWh
Phoenix · peak Sep 15
Mid-Columbia
$56.63
$/MWh
Oregon & Washington · peak Sep 15
Mass Hub
$46.93
$/MWh
New England · peak Sep 15
PJM West
$117.40
$/MWh
Eastern hub · peak Sep 15