In this interview Trabue Bland of Intercontinental Exchange, senior vice president futures exchanges, discusses how energy markets underpin the artificial intelligence revolution. Bland explains Intercontinental Exchange's evolution from energy benchmarks to granular power contracts and environmental derivatives and outlines partnerships with Ornn and NATIVX to develop compute-indexed futures. John Furrier of theCUBE Research and NYSE Wired guides the conversation on data center demand, tokenization and market innovation. Key takeaways include that energy remains the bottom layer bounding AI growth and that transparent forward curves enable financing and hedging for data center compute, according to Bland. They highlight Intercontinental Exchange's expanding global power contracts, the regulatory work to launch compute futures and strategic investments in OKX and Hyperliquid to connect on-chain liquidity with regulated U.S. markets.