The race is on to turn ‘compute’ into a financial asset (opens original article in a new tab)

A 2014 initiative to create a financial market for cloud computing capacity failed by 2016 due to technical and integration challenges.

• Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange was launched in 2014 to trade spare computing capacity
• The venture failed due to difficulties in standardizing CPUs and integrating cloud capacity
• The exchange shut down in 2016 after not achieving its goals