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Bibliography · GPU prices 16 Oct 2026 · campus records 16 Oct 2026

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S1GPU rental price index

Sources for the price index and for each model page. Snapshot 16 Oct 2026.

Trackers and comparison pages

Read for the aggregate floor, median and ceiling of each model; the models each one covers are listed after it.

1. Beam — pricing — H200, RTX 5090, RTX 4090
2. CoreWeave pricing — GB200, MI355X, A100
3. DigitalOcean — GPU Droplets pricing — H200, H100, MI300X
4. Lium.io pricing — H100, L40S
5. Vast.ai live GPU pricing — A100, RTX 4090
6. AIMultiple — GPU cloud price index — L40S
7. Civo — NVIDIA A100 GPU cloud pricing — A100
8. Civo — NVIDIA L40S GPU cloud pricing — L40S
9. cloudprice.net — Azure ND96isr MI300X v5 — MI300X
10. ComputePrices — B200 GPU price — B200
11. ComputePrices — L40S price comparison — L40S
12. ComputePrices — MI355X price comparison — MI355X
13. ComputePrices — RTX 5090 price comparison — RTX 5090
14. Daytona pricing — MI355X
15. DeepInfra — GPU instances — B200
16. GetDeploying — A100 price comparison — A100
17. GetDeploying — B200 price comparison — B200
18. GetDeploying — GB200 price comparison — GB200
19. GetDeploying — H100 price comparison — H100
20. GetDeploying — H200 price comparison — H200
21. GetDeploying — MI300X price comparison — MI300X
22. GetDeploying — RTX 4090 price comparison — RTX 4090
23. GetDeploying — RTX 5090 price comparison — RTX 5090
24. GMI Cloud pricing — GB200
25. Lambda pricing — H100
26. RunPod — RTX 4090 pricing — RTX 4090
27. Runpod pricing — H100
28. Spare Cores — Azure ND128isr NDR GB200 v6 pricing — GB200
29. Spheron — AMD MI300X & MI355X pricing 2026 — MI355X
30. Thunder Compute — MI300X pricing — MI300X
31. Vantage — Azure ND96isr H100 v5 instance pricing — H100
32. Vantage — Azure ND96isr H200 v5 instance pricing — H200
33. Vast.ai — RTX 5090 pricing — RTX 5090
34. Verda pricing — B200

Price history before tracking began

History points before tracking are seeded from these published indices (dashed in the charts).

1. Silicon Data H100 Rental Price Index
2. SemiAnalysis — GPU rental capacity and pricing
3. Introl — GPU cloud price collapse, Dec 2025

S2AI data center census

Sources for the campus census: the explainer, the register of capacity statements and the record behind every campus row.

Explainer: what makes an AI data center

1. IEA (2025), Energy and AI — Executive summary — data centre electricity use, 2024 and 2030
2. NVIDIA — H100 Tensor Core GPU (specifications) — power per GPU
3. NVIDIA — DGX B200 (specifications) — system power
4. NVIDIA — GB200 NVL72 — rack-scale, liquid-cooled design
5. The Register — AMD's MI355X is a 1.4 kW liquid-cooled part (12 Jun 2025) — liquid cooling threshold

Capacity statements

Updated 15 Oct 2026; same order as Table 2.4, newest first.

1. PR Newswire via Manila Times — DayOne Upsizes Malaysia Financing to US$7.2 Billion — DayOne, 2026-10-14
2. El Paso Matters — Project Jupiter rent force majeure — Oracle / Stack Infrastructure, 2026-09-24
3. Intelligent Data Centres — VIRTUS secures £2.45 billion financing package to support continued growth — VIRTUS Data Centres, 2026-09-24
4. GlobeNewswire — New Era Energy & Digital secures 20-year 207 MW PPA with Vistra — New Era Energy & Digital / Vistra, 2026-09-21
5. SEC EDGAR — CleanSpark 8-K exhibit 99.1 — CleanSpark / Meta (Anviranda), 2026-09-18
6. GlobeNewswire — Blockfusion signs 15-year anchor lease with CoreWeave — Blockfusion / CoreWeave, 2026-09-16
7. Zawya — Ooredoo Group scales its AI compute ambitions through investment in Zankore — Zankore (Ooredoo-backed), 2026-09-09
8. AsiaOne — Security and sustainability of data centres, cloud services strengthened under proposed bill — Government of Singapore (IMDA), 2026-09-08
9. East Idaho News — Meta turns on its $1.2B Idaho data center — Meta, 2026-09-03
10. Georgia Power — Georgia Power's contract with OpenAI approved — Georgia Public Service Commission / Georgia Power / OpenAI, 2026-08-26
11. DCD — Singapore gov't allocates 200MW of power for four data center developers on Jurong Island — EDB / IMDA (Singapore), 2026-08-21
12. CVC — CVC DIF to acquire leading German data centre operator firstcolo — CVC DIF / firstcolo, 2026-08-14
13. NVIDIA Newsroom — NVIDIA guarantees SB Energy's Ports Pike Technology Campus in Ohio — Nvidia / SB Energy / OpenAI, 2026-08-13
14. PR Newswire via Manila Times — DayOne and TNB explore up to 1.5 GW of on-site power generation — DayOne / TNB Power Generation, 2026-08-07

Campus records

The 634 campuses carry 885 source links across 294 domains. The most-cited domains first, then every campus with all of its sources.

S3Guides

Documents behind each guide, in the order the guide relies on them, with the date each was last read. Figures a guide takes from the price index or the census are sourced in the groups above.

S4Data pages

Sources for each data page: the documents its prose cites, then the record behind every campus it lists (the same records as the census groups above, gathered per page).

S5Licence of this compilation

The selection, structure and normalisation of the data — the price index and the census — may be reused under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0) with attribution to Compute Census. Individual prices and statements remain those of the providers and publishers listed above. How each series is built: methodology.