# Crusoe

> Crusoe develops energy infrastructure and AI data centers, manufactures modular computing facilities, and sells GPU cloud and managed AI services. Founded by Chase Lochmiller and Cully Cavness in 2018, it moved from flare-gas-powered bitcoin mining toward an integrated AI infrastructure business serving developers, AI companies and hyperscalers.

- **Founded:** 2018
- **Headquarters:** Denver, United States
- **Founders:** Chase Lochmiller (Co-founder, CEO and Chairman), Cully Cavness (Co-founder, President and Chief Strategy Officer)
- **Products:** Crusoe Cloud, Crusoe Managed Kubernetes, Crusoe Spark, Crusoe Managed Inference, Serverless Fine-Tuning and Self-Serve Deployments
- **Notable:** First phase of Abilene’s 1.2 GW campus brought online approximately one year after construction began, according to the October 2025 funding announcement., Company reported over 1 GW operational capacity and more than 6 GW gross contracted capacity in September 2026; contracted capacity is not all operational., Crusoe reported NVIDIA Exemplar-level training performance for Spark on October 14, 2026.

## Products & services

- **Crusoe Cloud** — GPU and CPU compute, storage, networking and orchestration for training, inference and other compute-intensive work; generally available in 2024 after earlier development.
- **Crusoe Managed Kubernetes** — Managed orchestration for GPU and CPU applications, including automated node remediation through AutoClusters.
- **Crusoe Spark** — Prefabricated modular AI data centers integrating cooling, power infrastructure, monitoring and GPU-ready racks.
- **Crusoe Managed Inference** — Managed open-model serving with serverless, self-serve and tailored deployment options, offered through Intelligence Foundry.
- **Serverless Fine-Tuning and Self-Serve Deployments** — Fine-tune open-weight models with token-based billing; export weights or deploy dedicated inference endpoints with GPU-hour billing.
- **AI data center development** — Energy sourcing, design, construction and operation of large computing campuses for hyperscalers and AI customers.

## Achievements

- First phase of Abilene’s 1.2 GW campus brought online approximately one year after construction began, according to the October 2025 funding announcement.
- Company reported over 1 GW operational capacity and more than 6 GW gross contracted capacity in September 2026; contracted capacity is not all operational.
- Crusoe reported NVIDIA Exemplar-level training performance for Spark on October 14, 2026.
- Divested bitcoin mining to NYDIG during 2025 to concentrate on AI infrastructure.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — October 14: announced NVIDIA Exemplar-level performance for Spark AI factories.
- **2026-10** — October 13: published guidance for the open-source NVIDIA Run:ai release on Crusoe Managed Kubernetes.
- **2026-10** — October 8: pledged $50 million in compute credits over three years to the Genesis Mission Consortium.
- **2026-09** — September 28: announced development of Google’s Armstrong County data center campus.
- **2026-09** — September 23: announced a $65 million annual inference agreement with Thinking Machines Lab.
- **2026-09** — September 17: announced the initial closing of an anticipated $3.9 billion Series F at a $30.9 billion post-money valuation.

## Links

- Website: https://www.crusoe.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/crusoe
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/crusoeai
- GitHub: https://github.com/crusoecloud
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFKvMIkL20rlt9-u6evBA5g
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crusoe.ai/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CrusoeEnergySystems/

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Last updated: 2026-10-15