Internet Backyard provides a financial infrastructure platform that normalizes GPU compute across racks, regions, and SKUs into standardized, tradeable units. The system links real‑time power‑usage metering to billing and contract APIs, enabling advance reservations, spot pricing, and risk‑based financing for data‑center operators, AI cloud providers, and capital institutions. Integrated risk analytics and privacy‑preserving benchmarks support hedging, insurance, and leasing of compute assets.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
AI-driven workloads require large-scale GPU compute, but organizations still procure and bill for this capacity using spreadsheets, PDFs, and ad‑hoc contracts. The lack of standardized units and real‑time usage data makes pricing opaque, hinders financial planning, and prevents effective risk management for both providers and tenants.
Solution
Internet Backyard offers a neutral financial infrastructure layer that abstracts physical compute into consistent, tradeable units across racks, regions, and SKUs. By aligning metering, billing, and contract terms on a single data rail, the platform ensures that “what was used” matches “what was paid.” It provides APIs that enable advanced reservation, price hedging, and financing of GPU resources, turning compute into a market‑ready asset. The system also supplies privacy‑preserving benchmarks and risk analytics, allowing banks and capital providers to underwrite compute investments with confidence. Together, these capabilities streamline procurement, improve cost predictability, and open new commercial models for the global compute economy.
Target Audience
The primary customers are data‑center operators and GPU cloud providers, AI‑focused enterprises that consume large compute volumes, and capital institutions seeking to finance or insure compute assets.
Features
- Unified compute unit model that normalizes racks, regions, and workload SKUs into interoperable, tradeable metrics
- Real‑time power‑usage metering linked directly to billing engines via secure APIs
- Contract and pricing engine supporting advance reservations, spot pricing, and automated renewal terms
- Built‑in risk analytics and benchmark data that enable hedging, insurance, and financing products
- Marketplace layer for third‑party capital providers to offer loans or lease structures on standardized compute assets
- Privacy‑preserving benchmarking framework that aggregates performance data without exposing proprietary workloads
- Integration hooks for ERP, accounting systems, and cloud management platforms to ensure end‑to‑end financial reconciliation