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CoreWeave acquires data center provider Core Scientific in $9B stock deal
Core ScientificCore Scientific(US:CORZ) TechCrunchยท2025-07-07 17:37

Group 1 - CoreWeave signed a $9 billion all-stock deal to acquire Core Scientific, a data center infrastructure provider [1] - The acquisition will provide CoreWeave with over 1 gigawatt of data center capacity, sufficient to power more than 850,000 homes, for AI training and inference workloads [1] - Core Scientific, previously focused on Bitcoin mining, will now utilize its GPUs for running and training generative AI models [1] Group 2 - Cloud infrastructure providers are expanding their data center capacity to meet the growing computational demands of AI companies [2] - OpenAI has entered into a deal to rent an additional 4.5 gigawatts of data center capacity from Oracle, enhancing their existing Stargate infrastructure agreement [2]