Core Scientific Announces Exercise of Final Contract Option by CoreWeave for Delivery of Approximately 120 MW of Additional Digital Infrastructure to Host High-Performance Computing Operations
Expands Total Contracted HPC Infrastructure by CoreWeave to Approximately 500 Megawatts of Critical IT Load at Six Core Scientific Sites
Increases Potential Cumulative Revenue to $8.7 Billion over 12 Year Contract Terms
Core Scientific Pursuing Expansions to Existing Data Centers and Evaluating Additional Sites to Expand HPC Hosting Capacity
Core Scientific, Inc. (NASDAQ:CORZ) ("Core Scientific" or the "Company"), a leader in digital infrastructure for bitcoin mining and high-performance computing, today announced that CoreWeave, the AI Hyperscaler, has exercised its final option to contract for additional infrastructure pursuant to the terms provided as part of the previously announced 200 megawatt ("MW") hosting contract for high performance computing ("HPC") entered into with CoreWeave on June 3, 2024.
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Under the terms of today's announced option exercise, Core Scientific will modify infrastructure at one of its sites to deliver approximately 120 incremental MW of critical IT load to host CoreWeave's NVIDIA Graphics Processing Units ("GPUs"). "Critical IT load" refers to the amount of power delivered to a data center's servers, storage, communications switches and key systems, and does not include the power required to support ancillary systems, such as air conditioning and chillers.
Site modifications associated with the latest option exercise are expected to begin in the second half of 2025, with operational status anticipated in the second half of 2026. This new 12-year HPC hosting contract will further expand Core Scientific's exposure to contracted, multi-year, dollar-denominated revenue. The new contract with CoreWeave is expected to add approximately $2.0 billion in projected additional cumulative revenue over the hosting contract's 12-year term to the $6.7 billion in projected cumulative revenue associated with previously announced contracts with CoreWeave, for a total of $8.7 billion.1
"In May, we communicated our plans to contract approximately 500 megawatts of critical IT load to host high-performance computing. With today's announcement, we have delivered on that commitment," said Adam Sullivan, Core Scientific's Chief Executive Officer. "There is significant demand for infrastructure to support next generation compute workloads. Our contracts with CoreWeave represent the foundation for Core Scientific's evolution into a leading data center business ideally positioned to meet that demand."
"We are now working to expand power allocations at some of our existing data centers to increase our capacity for HPC hosting while also continuing to evaluate new sites in our pipeline to expand our business opportunity. We are at the beginning of an exciting time for Core Scientific, and our focus remains squarely on growing our business and delivering increasing value to clients and shareholders," Mr. Sullivan added.
Consistent with the terms of the agreements with CoreWeave previously announced on June 3rd, all capital investments required to modify Core Scientific's existing infrastructure into cutting-edge, application-specific data centers customized for power-dense HPC will be funded by CoreWeave. An estimated $180 million of the capital investments associated with Core Scientific-owned infrastructure supporting today's announced option exercise will be credited against hosting payments as capex credits at no more than 50% of monthly fees until fully repaid. The latest contract option with CoreWeave also provides opportunities for two renewal terms of five years each.
Building on the previously announced 382 MW of infrastructure for HPC hosting, the option exercise announced today will position Core Scientific to provide a total of approximately 500 MW of critical IT load for HPC infrastructure to CoreWeave by the second half of 2026. The successful execution of these contracts would place Core Scientific among the largest publicly traded data center operators in the United States.
With its 1.2 gigawatts of contracted power, Core Scientific plans to provide a total of approximately 700 MW of digital infrastructure to deliver 500 MW of critical IT load for HPC hosting to support alternative compute workloads, based on geographic proximity to major cities and fiber lines.2 The remaining 500 MW of contracted power is currently allocated to support the Company's bitcoin mining business.
About Core Scientific
Core Scientific, Inc. ("Core Scientific" or the "Company") is a leader in digital infrastructure for bitcoin mining and high-performance computing. We operate dedicated, purpose-built facilities for digital asset mining and are a premier provider of digital infrastructure, software solutions and services to our third-party customers. We employ our own large fleet of computers ("miners") to earn digital assets for our own account, provide hosting services for large bitcoin mining customers and are allocating a significant portion of our eight operational data centers in Georgia (2), Kentucky (1), North Carolina (1), North Dakota (1) and Texas (3) to support Artificial Intelligence-related workloads under a series of contracts that entail their modification to deliver hosting services for high-performance computing. We derive the majority of our revenue from earning bitcoin for our own account ("self-mining"). To learn more, visit www.corescientific.com.
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1 Represents total cumulative revenue over all 12-year contract periods, before capex credits provided to CoreWeave as compensation for Core Scientific's share of infrastructure build out costs, capped at $1.5 million per MW
2 500 MW of infrastructure for HPC hosting represents 700 MW of gross infrastructure
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