A Startup Is Looking to Pay 30% Yield by Tokenizing AI Infrastructure
Calculate Labs, a startup that turns industrial-grade GPUs powering AI data centers into fractionalized yield-bearing tokens, has partnered with enterprise AI cloud company NexGen Cloud to distribute ownership of a $1 million ‘public vault’. The AI infrastructure’s power and success are usually centralized, but Compute Labs aims to provide token holders direct access to the earning potential of enterprise hardware like NVIDIA H200 GPUs, valued at $30,000 each.
Investors can earn stablecoin yield from live AI compute without managing hardware or relying on overvalued equities. Europe’s NexGen, offering consumers AI computing power and raising $45 million in April, will finance the project through InfraHub Compute. The funds will buy GPUs, fractionalized for investors and clients, with the first ‘vault’ already securing $1 million. The top-of-the-range NVIDIA GPUs will yield an estimated 30% annually based on active GPU rental agreements.
Compute Labs connects with data center operators seeking to enhance capacity, managing GPU leasing and returning net profits to investors. The company fractionalizes GPUs for private investors, utilizing NFTs to differentiate hardware investments. With backing from Protocol Labs, OKX Ventures, CMS Holdings, and Amber Group, Compute Labs employs a 10% fee structure across tokenization and asset management, rationalizing the AI market.
‘This model assigns concrete, tradable value to each GPU cycle, ensuring value alignment across the AI ecosystem,’ said Youlian Tzanev, NexGen Cloud’s co-founder and chief strategy officer.
