Chamath Palihapitiya · 14 August 2026

Deep Dive: The Next Trillion-Dollar Futures Market

Chamath Palihapitiya, GP @ Social Capital

CME and Silicon Data are launching compute futures contracts in October 2026, addressing a $765B AI capex market that now exceeds oil and gas spending. The piece explores whether compute can become a multi-trillion-dollar asset class despite concentration and performance variability challenges.

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Topics: AI (Horizontal) · Energy & Climate

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