Crusoe Secures $3.9B Series F Funding to Expand AI Infrastructure and Deploy Modular Spark Factories

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Crusoe secured $3.9 billion through its Series F financing, bringing company valuation to $30.9 billion
Atreides Management, Mubadala Capital, and Valor Equity Partners co-led the investment, with participation from Nvidia and additional backers
Capital will support expansion of current data center operations and deployment of modular “Spark” AI factories that can be truck-transported
Company boasts more than $140 billion in aggregate contracted value and 6 gigawatts of secured capacity
Early-stage IPO discussions are happening with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley

Crusoe, an AI infrastructure provider headquartered in Denver, has successfully closed a $3.9 billion Series F financing round. The funding round establishes the company’s valuation at $30.9 billion.

Crusoe has raised $3.9 billion in Series F, co-led by @Atreidesmgmt, @MubadalaCapital, and @valor Equity Partners.

This capital will help us grow across our AI factories, from large-scale campuses to modular Crusoe Spark units, and continue to innovate with Crusoe Cloud.

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— Crusoe (@CrusoeAI) September 17, 2026

Three firms co-led the investment: Atreides Management, Mubadala Capital, and Valor Equity Partners. The syndicate also includes Founders Fund, Nvidia, GIC, Qatar Investment Authority, Radical Ventures, and TPG among its participants.

Capital Deployment Strategy

The fresh capital will fuel expansion of Crusoe’s current data center portfolio and accelerate development of Spark, its innovative modular AI factory platform. These compact units feature truck-transportable designs that can be deployed near substantial power infrastructure regardless of geographic location.

Through in-house manufacturing of Spark systems, Crusoe achieves rapid deployment of computational resources while minimizing reliance on extensive construction crews. The modular approach also mitigates local opposition that traditional large-scale data center developments frequently encounter.

Among its major installations is an Abilene, Texas facility currently serving OpenAI. The company’s client roster also features Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle.

Crusoe operates through three revenue channels: providing data center space leases for customers utilizing their own GPUs, offering GPU rental services, and delivering compute-as-a-service for AI model operations.

Rapid Growth Trajectory and Public Market Aspirations

Originally established in 2018 as a cryptocurrency mining operation utilizing flared natural gas, Crusoe transformed its business model toward AI infrastructure in response to surging computational demand.

Today, the firm commands over $140 billion in aggregate contracted value alongside more than 6 gigawatts of contracted capacity, with 1 gigawatt currently operational.

A notable recent agreement saw Crusoe finalize a $13 billion five-year cloud services contract with quantitative trading company Jane Street for GPU provisioning and AI infrastructure support.

Three directors have joined the company’s board: Cloudflare CFO Thomas Seifert, Primary Digital Infrastructure CIO Bill Stein, and Redwood Materials founder JB Straubel, who also serves on Tesla’s board.

Straubel became a personal investor in Crusoe during 2021, with Crusoe subsequently becoming the inaugural customer for Redwood’s energy storage division.

Recent discussions with investment banking institutions including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have focused on exploring a potential public offering. The company hasn’t announced a definitive timeline for such a move.

This funding milestone arrives just ten months following Crusoe’s $1.38 billion raise at a $10 billion valuation in October 2025. The valuation has increased more than threefold within a single year.

CEO Chase Lochmiller articulated the company’s vision as establishing control over the complete infrastructure stack “from electrons to tokens.”

Crusoe represents part of an emerging “neocloud” ecosystem delivering specialized AI cloud infrastructure and data center capabilities amid accelerating demand for computational power.

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