Will compute become an actively traded capacity market?

GPU capacity may evolve into either bilateral long-term contracts or a liquid commodity market, with very different consequences for inference providers

What is the best argument for the "compute" market will evolve in such a way that there will be an actively traded market for capacity, rather than just long-term bilateral contracts between inference providers and GPU owners? (Assuming tho
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