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Morning Brief: Monday, June 29, 2026

By ComputeTape Editorial

Start-of-day AI compute market report.

Published each morning with the prior day’s source-backed signals across GPU pricing, cloud capacity, power constraints, data centers, and AI infrastructure. Track the prior day’s source-backed news and changes shaping GPU supply, cloud availability, power constraints, data centers, and compute market pressure.

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Report date
Monday, June 29, 2026
Signal window
Sunday, June 28, 2026
  • Request for Backup Generation Emergency Order Under Federal Power Act, Section 202(c) PDF
  • NorthVault launches, plans data center campus in Ontario, Canada
  • Three-year data center moratorium passed in town of East Fishkill, New York State, blocking planned campus

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Lesson & Term of the Day

Today's lesson

What is SWE-bench?

Learn what SWE-bench measures, why it matters for AI coding agents, and how software-engineering benchmarks connect to AI compute demand. Why it matters today: Today's lesson connects the Model Benchmarks & AI Compute Economics track to the compute market readers are watching.

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Term of the Day

Megawatt

A megawatt is a unit of power equal to one million watts. Data center developers often discuss capacity in megawatts because power is one of the main constraints on how much compute can be deployed. More megawatts can support more servers, GPUs, cooling, and networking.

Market signals

Compute market signals

H100 IndexWhat it costs to rent one H100 GPU for an hour on demand — the market’s anchor price.

Value
$6.52 / H100-hr
Last Price Change
Jul 29, 2026

Spot Compute PriceThe cheaper, interruptible GPU price — a read on whether spare capacity is available.

Value
$2.46 / H100e-hourH100e-hour means an H100-equivalent GPU hour, a normalized unit used to compare different GPUs and providers.
Last Price Change
May 27, 2026

Model Serving CostRoughly what it costs to run a model and generate its output at scale, per million tokens.

Value
$2.78 / 1M tokens
Last Price Change
Jun 22, 2026

GPU AvailabilityHow easy or hard it is to actually get GPU capacity right now, scored 0–100.

Value
78 / 100 score
Last change
May 27, 2026

Signals

Top market signals

These are the highest-impact source-backed items from the signal window used for this morning’s brief.

Jun 28, 2026

Request for Backup Generation Emergency Order Under Federal Power Act, Section 202(c) PDF

this may affect power supply, demand, capacity, bottlenecks, or financing.

Source: PJM Interconnection

Jun 26, 2026

NorthVault launches, plans data center campus in Ontario, Canada

Watch item for AI compute supply, demand, capacity, infrastructure, or market structure.

Source: Data Center Dynamics

Jun 26, 2026

Three-year data center moratorium passed in town of East Fishkill, New York State, blocking planned campus

Watch item for AI compute supply, demand, capacity, infrastructure, or market structure.

Source: Data Center Dynamics

Jun 26, 2026

Mystery tech firm looks to build ~800-acre data center campus outside Grand Rapids, Michigan

Watch item for AI compute supply, demand, capacity, infrastructure, or market structure.

Source: Data Center Dynamics

Jun 26, 2026

Large data center campus planned in Pindamonhangaba, Brazil

Watch item for AI compute supply, demand, capacity, infrastructure, or market structure.

Source: Data Center Dynamics

Power & Data Center Watch

  • Request for Backup Generation Emergency Order Under Federal Power Act, Section 202(c) PDF (PJM Interconnection).
  • Mystery tech firm looks to build ~800-acre data center campus outside Grand Rapids, Michigan (Data Center Dynamics).
  • Large data center campus planned in Pindamonhangaba, Brazil (Data Center Dynamics).

Market report

Latest GPU pricing report

For a durable pricing artifact, use the monthly report rather than a single Morning Brief issue.

H100 GPU Pricing Report: July 2026

Canonical CT-H100 median, reviewed H100 provider rows, freshness dates, and composition caveats in one citable report.

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