Near-term GPU capacity now sells at a premium to future supply.
Four-year H100 contracts, backwardated rental curves, and Blackwell auctions clearing above all-time highs show the compute market pricing persistent scarcity in real time — rebutting the overcapacity thesis even though no market yet exists to price a 4-6-year-old rack's residual value.
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Rental rates are rising even on 2022-vintage silicon and auctions clear above prior highs — the market pricing near-term capacity at a premium to future supply.
Near-dated Blackwell clearing above list, with short-duration deals at roughly double mid-term rates, is the spot-over-forward scarcity premium pricing itself in real time.
The largest pure-play buyer reports unbroken order flow while rival operators raise pay-as-you-go rents for a second time in three months — the observable signature of persistent scarcity pricing, not overbuild.
With supply bottlenecked through fiscal 2028 and memory-backed instance prices raised ~41%, scarcity keeps rationing revenue upward at rising prices — rebutting the overcapacity thesis.
Four-year H100 contracts and a backwardated rental curve show old GPUs retaining earning power even though no market exists yet to price an aged rack's terminal value.