[Silicon Data Completes $30.5 Million Series A Financing, CME Group Plans to Adopt Its Benchmark] GPU data infrastructure company Silicon Data has completed a $30.5 million Series A financing round, led by Valor Atreides AI Fund, with participation from CME Ventures, DRW, Samsung Next, VanEck, Jump Trading, and Wintermute. The funds will be used for GPU benchmark pricing, performance measurement, institutional and alternative data, as well as risk infrastructure for derivatives, insurance, and credit markets. Silicon Data collects data from approximately 100 GPU rental platforms across more than 40 countries, processing over 150,000 price records daily. CME Group plans to adopt Silicon Data's benchmark as the reference price for its proposed cash-settled GPU futures, pending regulatory approval.