Hourly rental prices for Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs reached $4.08. This marks a 48% increase from $2.75 just two months ago. The Ornn Compute Price Index, cited by the Wall Street Journal, reported the surge.
Soaring demand for agentic AI systems drove the price escalation. A significant shortage of available computing power persists across the industry.
The capacity crunch forces some AI companies to ration products and services. This bottleneck threatens broader industry growth and adoption.