The San Francisco Compute Company

When AI companies buy access to GPU clusters to train large-scale models, they risk getting locked into overpriced long-term contracts and paying for time they don’t need. To fix that problem, and to increase the overall liquidity and resilience of the burgeoning data center economy, SF Compute created a spot market where buyers can buy and sell compute by the hour and sublease contracted but unused resources to others. The company doesn’t own GPU clusters — it manages them on behalf of their owners, collecting a small fee for each transaction while helping heavy GPU users reduce their financial exposure.