Crusoe raised 3.9 billion dollars to build AI factories

Company Crusoe has closed a funding round of 3.9 billion dollars. The raised funds will be used to expand the network of data centers and create specialized modular "AI factories" for high-performance computing.

After the completion of the investment round, the company's market valuation reached 30.9 billion dollars. The infrastructure giant plans to use the capital to scale up the capacities needed for training and deploying modern generative models, which require significant energy and computational resources.

Modular "AI factories" are compact computing nodes that can be deployed in close proximity to energy sources. This approach allows reducing data transfer delays and optimizing equipment cooling costs, which is a critical factor for the operation of clusters with thousands of GPUs.

Investments in Crusoe highlight the growing demand for specialized infrastructure capable of supporting intensive workloads. In the face of a shortage of capacity for AI development, the creation of autonomous and scalable data centers is becoming a key direction for venture capital in the technology sector.