A longer commitment needs an agreed price, a defined service and a delivery date.
Silicon Data’s forward-curve work looks beyond today’s rate to compare future periods. That helps describe a price. It does not reserve a machine.
The same distinction applies to financial hedges: cash settlement can address price exposure, but cannot deliver the inference itself.
For customers, the question remains simple: what work is covered, at what price, and when will it arrive?
Old Evening provides usage pricing, batch quotes and capacity contracts around that purchase.
Further reading: The birth of GPU futures and Architect’s ComputeConnect announcement.
Market commentary, not an offer to trade financial instruments.