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Finance & economics | The futures of AI<br>How to turn compute into a financial asset<br>Entrepreneurs, exchange operators and AI firms are creating tradable instruments backed by processing power<br>Share
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Jun 22nd 2026|6 min read
IN 2014, AS cloud computing was taking off, a group of German technologists and financial-platform operators had an idea. They launched the Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange, on which firms could buy and sell spare access to computing power.
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