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Companies that build data centres, fill them with GPUs and rent compute to AI developers under long supply contracts.
CoreWeave carries $51.9 billion of debt and operating lease liabilities against $4.6 billion of quarterly revenue and a $1.4 billion net loss. Its contracted backlog of $103.7 billion is about twice that sum.
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CoreWeave, which has never turned a profit and carries about $50 billion of debt per LSEG, has seen its shares and bonds tumble. An explainer links the slide to a wider tech selloff, though IG's Axel Rudolph puts the doubt in funding.
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CoreWeave's three co-founders have sold $3.3 billion of stock since the March 2025 IPO, $2.4 billion of it this year, Bloomberg reported. The shares are down about 50% over the past year, and Nvidia, a 10% holder, says the risk of a credit event is low.
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CoreWeave stock fell about 15% on Oct. 14, less than 24 hours after Jim Cramer called it the "real deal" on Mad Money. The Motley Fool ties the drop to debt, citing $3.7 billion of first-half operating cash flow against $6.2 billion of debt payments.
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Nvidia-backed data centre operator Firmus has withdrawn its Australian stock market listing, citing market volatility, and will seek private capital instead. The offer was meant to raise up to US$5.5 billion for GPUs at an Indonesian site, the Straits Times reported, so that capacity now depends on a private round still in talks.
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Firmus Grid scrapped its Australian IPO after investors balked at a $30 billion valuation, Mint reported. Listed rival CoreWeave is still worth $37 billion, so the sources show a failed price more clearly than a failed sector.
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Wells Fargo lifted its Meta price target to $1,000 from $796 after removing about $5 billion of expected 2027 compute-resale revenue from its model. The higher target now depends on Muse earning more from the same compute in 2028 and later than a rental tenant would have paid.
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Nscale's registration statement pairs $140.6 million of first-half revenue with a $1.02 billion net loss, and says the company holds no binding commitments for the financing its four Anthropic agreements oblige it to seek.
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Two compute landlords raised $4.5bn between them while cloud security, protein bars, payroll software and robot silicon split under $900m, and the second-biggest cheque came from a trading firm rather than a venture fund.
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CoreWeave has disclosed $5.1bn of equipment financing and Nebius says debt plus one customer contract covers more than 100% of a deployment's capex, which turns an enterprise compute order into a credit judgement.
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The two facilities release cash against project spend rather than revenue, which makes the 275 megawatts they finance a delivery schedule, and Nscale disclosed no pricing, maturities or covenants to price it against.
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The larger 2030 tranche carries a coupon of no more than 0.5 percent, and Nebius is also swapping older convertibles for shares. The build-out is priced in dilution, not cash flow.
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