Adopt the
Standard
Publish a CEH™ (Compute Energy Hour)-certified benchmark on your own infrastructure. Differentiate on energy efficiency — not just $/GPU-hr. Get listed in the CEH™ Index with the certification mark, with methodology protection intact.
Compete on Energy Efficiency
Hyperscalers and enterprise buyers increasingly evaluate infrastructure on total energy cost per inference workload — not just raw GPU capacity. A published CEH™ benchmark gives your infrastructure a neutral, auditable energy efficiency claim that $/GPU-hr pricing cannot convey.
Institutional Credibility
CEH™ v1.0 is a dated, versioned, open standard — comparable in structure to MLPerf for ML performance or PUE for facility efficiency. Certification positions your infrastructure within a reproducible methodology that procurement teams, boards, and analysts can verify independently.
Methodology Protection
Your underlying operational data remains proprietary. What is disclosed — TDP, utilization, PUE, COU, throughput methodology, energy rate, carbon intensity source — is a defined disclosure checklist, not open-ended access. The methodology disclosure is structured so that the result is reproducible without exposing your internal cost structure.
First-Mover Index Position
CEH™ Index v1.0 currently benchmarks publicly reported hardware configurations. Operators who certify early achieve permanent first-publication status for their configuration in a versioned, dated index that is designed for long-term institutional reference — the same model as PUE baseline disclosures.
Complete the disclosure checklist (below) and submit your CEH™ benchmark methodology to Oak Ridge Management for review. Submissions are reviewed for completeness, reproducibility, and consistency with the CEH™ v1.0 standard formula. No proprietary cost data is required.
Oak Ridge Management coordinates an independent technical review of your submitted CEH™ benchmark. The reviewer assesses: (a) consistency of throughput methodology with COU definitions, (b) accuracy of disclosed hardware TDP and PUE, and (c) reproducibility of the stated CEH™ rate. You receive a written review memo with any required corrections.
Upon successful validation, your infrastructure configuration is published in the CEH™ Index with your organization's name, configuration details, and grade. You receive a license to use the CEH™ certification mark in your materials alongside the specific published configuration. Index entries are versioned and dated — your entry carries a permanent publication timestamp.
Index Listing
Your configuration listed in the CEH™ Index v1.0 — with organization name, hardware, CEH™ rate, grade, and publication date. Permanent, versioned, searchable by operators and procurement teams.
Certification Mark
License to use the CEH™ certification mark in marketing materials, RFP responses, and investor presentations — specific to the published configuration and grade. Usage guidelines provided on issuance.
Methodology Protection
Your operational cost structure, full revenue data, and internal benchmarks remain proprietary. Only the defined disclosure checklist is required. The certification validates efficiency — not economics.
The following information must be disclosed to obtain CEH™ certification. This is the complete list — no additional operational data is required. Proprietary cost structures, revenue, and internal pricing are explicitly excluded.
Operator
Certification
Application
Submit your intent to apply for CEH™ certification. A member of the standards team will contact you within 5 business days with the full submission package and review timeline.
Certification is available to any operator — data center, neo-cloud, BTM compute developer, or colocation provider — running the benchmark workload class against a reproducible hardware configuration.
The CEH™ standard is energy-agnostic: BTM, grid, nuclear, or any combination of sources qualifies. What matters is accurate disclosure, not which energy source powers your infrastructure.