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The real alpha is buried in their Q3 project & infrastructure slides:
1/ First-to-Market Vera Rubin Benchmarks:
Brought online multi-rack NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 in production for Cognition — delivering 4.8x greater token throughput than GB200 NVL72. Also announced support for NVIDIA Vera CPUs built for AI agents.
2/ Massive Power & Global Footprint:
• 52 active data centers (9 added in 2026)
• 1.7 GW+ active power (+200 MW in Q3, doubled YTD; >1.85 GW year-end target)
• 4.6 GW+ contracted power (+900 MW in Q3), including 1.3 GW+ overseas across India, Indonesia & Spain
3/ Software Stack & Defense Wins:
• Launched CoreWeave Forge + Agent Lens (end-to-end agent SFT/RL/eval stack)
• Partnered with Leidos for defense & intelligence sovereign AI workloads
• Selected to run managed AI cloud for DARPA biological research
• Expanded deals with OpenAI, Jane Street, Perplexity & Cohere + new wins with Canva & Wayve
The AI buildout isn't slowing down — it's going vertical.