Crowding Index
The index compares a basket of AI-exposed inputs with similar markets that have less direct AI demand, using January 2024 as a baseline of 100. It measures relative price and availability pressure across the two baskets.
Each component measures change from the baseline, subtracts its matched comparison and contributes to the basket result under the published weighting rules.
Observed components
These official producer price indexes are component inputs. Storage prices rose while the broader semiconductor index fell. The basket combines each exposed measure with its documented comparison.
AI-exposed basket
Control rules
Calculation standard
At least 80% of the exposed and comparison baskets have current observations.
Each series defines how greater scarcity moves the value.
Every scored series has a documented lower-AI-exposure comparison.
Published results show equal-weight and sensitivity calculations.
Raw values, calculations and retrieval dates are available for download, including revisions.
A reviewer outside the project can reproduce the result from the published file.
Open data
Each row includes the observation, unit, date, grade, evidence boundary and source URL.