[H100 Rental Prices Up 22% in a Month, Jensen Huang: GPUs Are Revenue-Generating Assets] Beating AI Newsflash: NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang shared data from the compute power marketplace Ornn. According to Ornn, the H100, a training GPU that has been on the market for several years, saw its rental price rise by 22% over the past month, reaching $3.28 per unit per hour. Huang emphasized that NVIDIA's compute power can be continuously rented out to generate income, making it a revenue-generating asset. Ornn's H100 Index is calculated based on actual rental transaction prices. On September 7, the daily settlement price was $3.17 per hour, and Ornn subsequently reported the latest price had further increased to $3.28 per hour. This data supports Huang's recently reiterated logic of "compute power durability." NVIDIA also stated in its latest earnings report that GPUs can be redeployed across different clients and workloads. [Original Article Link]