CRWV

AI Infrastructure Expansion: UK and US Data Centers

Cluster Description

Commitments to expand and equip AI data centers in the UK and US, including sovereign deployments and regional hubs; newer funding language supersedes earlier amounts where noted.

Commitments

• September 16, 2025: Invest the next £1.5 billion in UK AI data centre capacity and operations, bringing total UK investment to £2.5 billion and accelerating the UK Government’s Compute Roadmap.
• September 16, 2025: Partner with NVIDIA and DataVita to deploy NVIDIA Grace Blackwell Ultra GPUs in Scotland using 100% renewable energy and closed-loop cooling to minimize water use.
• September 16, 2025: Plan an additional sovereign AI infrastructure deployment using NVIDIA GB300 GPUs and NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell Server Edition GPUs to expand UK compute.
• September 16, 2025: Allocate up to $6 billion to equip a state-of-the-art data centre in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, updating and superseding the July 15, 2025 commitment that described the amount as “more than $6 billion.”
• July 15, 2025: Commit more than $6 billion to equip a new Lancaster, Pennsylvania AI data centre to power advanced AI use cases.
• July 15, 2025: Build an initial 100 MW data centre in Lancaster with potential expansion to 300 MW.
• July 15, 2025: Create approximately 600 construction jobs, ~70 full-time roles at launch, and scale to ~175 over time in Lancaster.
• July 15, 2025: Serve as tenant and co-develop the Lancaster project with Chirisa Technology Parks and Machine Investment Group, partnering on workforce recruitment and community engagement.
• July 15, 2025: Add the Lancaster facility to the network, bringing it to 33 AI data centres including 28 in the U.S.
• July 15, 2025: Work with Pennsylvania leadership on workforce development, energy resources, site funding, and expedited permitting and licensing.
• January 13, 2025: Report two UK AI data centres brought online in late 2024 (Crawley and London Docklands) as part of a £1 billion UK investment powered entirely by renewable energy.
• January 13, 2025: Plan to open 10 new data centres globally in 2025, targeting 38 data centres by year-end.

Hardware Leadership and Performance Benchmarks

Cluster Description

Commitments to first-to-market GPU availability, large-scale deployments, and industry-leading performance benchmarks; later benchmark announcements reaffirm and supersede earlier mentions.

Commitments

• July 09, 2025: Commit to be first AI cloud provider to offer NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU instances at scale, delivering up to 5.6x faster LLM inference and 3.5x faster text-to-video than prior generations.
• July 09, 2025: In collaboration with NVIDIA and IBM, submit the largest-ever MLPerf Training v5.0 run using nearly 2,500 NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchips in 27.3 minutes, reaffirming and superseding the July 3, 2025 announcement.
• July 03, 2025: Commit to be first to deploy NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems and scale deployments globally, targeting a 10x boost in user responsiveness and 50x increase in reasoning model output.
• April 15, 2025: Provide access to NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 rack-scale systems and full-stack cloud services to advance enterprise AI model development and deployment.
• April 15, 2025: Rapidly deploy NVIDIA GB200 systems to enable “AI factories” that improve performance and reliability for enterprise AI applications.
• April 02, 2025: Announce record Llama 3.1 405B inference at 800 TPS and 33,000 TPS on Llama 2 70B (40% higher than H100), underscoring commitment to cutting-edge infrastructure.
• February 04, 2025: Launch first-in-market NVIDIA GB200 NVL72-based instances delivering up to 30x faster real-time LLM inference, up to 25x lower TCO/energy, and up to 4x faster training.
• July 09, 2025: Maintain first-to-market leadership by continuously delivering the latest hardware and earning Platinum in SemiAnalysis’s GPU Cloud ClusterMAX Rating.
• January 13, 2025: Reiterate first-to-market leadership with NVIDIA H200 GPUs as part of UK and global expansion plans.

Strategic Partnerships and Customer Commitments

Cluster Description

Multi-year, high-impact alliances that expand compute access and accelerate customer outcomes; newer partnership restatements supersede earlier announcements for status clarity.

Commitments

• September 16, 2025: Serve as the Official AI Cloud Computing Partner of the Aston Martin Aramco Formula One Team, supporting development of its first large-scale cloud computing facility and superseding the May 22, 2025 announcement.
• April 15, 2025: Enter a multi-year contract with OpenAI to provide NVIDIA GB200-based AI infrastructure and services at scale.
• March 10, 2025: Sign an agreement to deliver AI infrastructure to OpenAI valued up to $11.9 billion, with OpenAI investing $350 million in CoreWeave stock to expand compute capacity for training and deployment.
• February 04, 2025: Deliver one of the first NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip-enabled AI supercomputers to IBM for training its Granite models as part of a hybrid cloud strategy.
• February 04, 2025: Collaborate with NVIDIA to enable fast and efficient generative and agentic AI across organizations using the GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip.
• May 22, 2025: Establish a multi-year partnership with Aston Martin Aramco F1 to migrate on-prem compute to CoreWeave’s AI cloud and accelerate engineering, now reaffirmed and superseded by the September 16, 2025 commitment.

M&A and Platform Integration: W&B and OpenPipe

Cluster Description

Acquisitions and deep software integration to build an end-to-end AI developer platform; later acquisition closings supersede earlier announcements.

Commitments

• September 03, 2025: Acquire OpenPipe Inc. under a definitive agreement to add reinforcement learning capabilities to the AI cloud.
• September 03, 2025: Integrate OpenPipe’s self-learning tools with CoreWeave’s AI cloud to expand the platform and give developers an advantage in building scalable intelligent systems.
• September 03, 2025: Democratize reinforcement learning so developers can post-train models on unique workflows and enable agents to learn from experience.
• September 03, 2025: Accelerate delivery of OpenPipe’s technology to a broader set of enterprise customers to improve reliability, performance, and cost.
• September 03, 2025: Deepen vertical integration across the technology stack, building on the earlier Weights & Biases acquisition.
• September 03, 2025: Provide customers greater flexibility to train, adapt, and optimize AI models through new RL and fine-tuning capabilities.
• June 18, 2025: Launch new AI cloud software products (in preview) to enhance how developers build, deploy, and iterate AI models, following the W&B acquisition.
• June 18, 2025: Integrate Mission Control cluster health management into the W&B Models platform to simplify diagnostics and boost productivity.
• June 18, 2025: Provide W&B Inference to let developers access leading open-source models through a single interface.
• June 18, 2025: Introduce W&B Weave Online Evaluations for real-time insights into agent performance in production.
• May 05, 2025: Complete the acquisition of Weights & Biases to accelerate AI innovation by combining software and infrastructure strengths.
• May 05, 2025: Maintain interoperability of the W&B platform for customer flexibility across providers, deployments, and model frameworks.
• May 05, 2025: Accelerate investment in the W&B platform to unlock new features by integrating hardware and software layers.
• March 04, 2025: Announce the agreement to acquire Weights & Biases to deliver an end-to-end developer experience, later superseded by the May 5, 2025 closing.

Vertical Integration and Cost Optimization

Cluster Description

Operational and financial efficiency through acquisition and financing strategies; commitments are complementary and time-aligned.

Commitments

• July 07, 2025: Acquire Core Scientific in an all-stock transaction expected to close in Q4 2025 to enhance data center infrastructure and operational efficiency, targeting $500 million annual run-rate cost savings by end of 2027.
• July 07, 2025: Eliminate over $10 billion in cumulative future lease overhead across existing contractual sites over the next 12 years as part of the Core Scientific transaction.
• July 07, 2025: Generate significant cost savings by streamlining operations and reducing lease overhead with an estimated $500 million annual run-rate by 2027.
• July 07, 2025: Pursue infrastructure financing strategies to fund committed capex and lower the overall cost of capital post-acquisition.

Venture Investing and Ecosystem Enablement

Cluster Description

Founder support and ecosystem development via CoreWeave Ventures; the September 16 update reaffirms and extends the September 9 launch commitments.

Commitments

• September 16, 2025: Through CoreWeave Ventures, provide resources including direct capital investments, compute-for-equity, and technical collaboration to support founders, reaffirming and extending the September 9, 2025 launch commitments.
• September 09, 2025: Launch and operate CoreWeave Ventures to back founders and companies developing AI platforms and technologies.
• September 09, 2025: Provide capital via direct investment and compute-for-equity models to help companies scale.
• September 09, 2025: Offer accelerated access to the CoreWeave cloud platform purpose-built for AI workloads.
• September 09, 2025: Provide production-grade testing environments to fast-track real-world AI use cases.
• September 09, 2025: Deliver product and go-to-market insights informed by enterprise and AI-first relationships.
• September 09, 2025: Facilitate deep technical alignments via technology partnerships and integrations.
• September 09, 2025: Support founders through technical collaboration and go-to-market opportunities beyond capital.

Capital Markets, Leadership, and Governance

Cluster Description

Corporate actions to strengthen capital access and leadership; IPO pricing supersedes the earlier registration filing.

Commitments

• March 27, 2025: Price the initial public offering of 37,500,000 Class A shares at $40.00 per share with closing expected on March 31, 2025.
• March 03, 2025: File a registration statement for a proposed IPO of Class A common stock with number of shares and price range to be determined.
• March 24, 2025: Appoint Jean English as Chief Marketing Officer to strengthen market presence and drive sustainable sales and product growth.
• January 09, 2025: Appoint a Chief Information Officer to lead IT and digital transformation supporting hypergrowth and client delivery.
• January 09, 2025: Appoint Karen Boone as an independent director to enhance governance and financial oversight.
• October 18, 2024: Appoint a Chief People Officer to advance employee development, retention, and culture during global expansion.

Industrial Decarbonization Project (External/Non-core)

Cluster Description

DOE-funded CO2-to-ethylene technology project that appears outside the AI cloud core business; included for completeness and flagged as sectorally distinct.

Commitments

• December 18, 2024: Develop an integrated process (Project SECURE) to recycle CO2 with low-carbon hydrogen to produce ethanol and ethylene with up to $200 million DOE funding (nearly $20 million for Phase 1).
• December 18, 2024: Conduct Phase 1 FEED, develop project plans, and engage community and labor stakeholders with NEPA documentation.
• December 18, 2024: Create high-quality jobs and support local communities while enhancing the efficiency and value of existing ethylene production infrastructure.