The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the U.S. derivatives regulator, is preparing to seek public comment on derivatives tied to computing capacity after sending a draft request to the White House Office of Management and Budget for review, Bloomberg reported. Once that review is completed, the agency could open a 30- or 60-day comment period, though no request had appeared on the CFTC’s public comment pages or in the Federal Register by Aug. 18. The process could shape, but does not automatically block, proposed compute-linked products from CME Group and Intercontinental Exchange, both of which remain subject to regulatory review. CME is targeting Oct. 5 for two NYMEX compute futures contracts using Silicon Data’s daily GPU rental benchmarks, while ICE is developing separate cash-settled products tied to benchmarks from Ornn and NativX. The proposed contracts are designed to let AI developers, cloud providers, data center operators and financial traders hedge or gain exposure to volatile graphics processor rental costs as AI infrastructure spending rises and more crypto mining operators redirect power-heavy facilities toward high-performance computing.