The deal frenzy to provide infrastructure for AI shows no signs of slowing down, with New Jersey-based CoreWeave and infrastructure modeling firm Poolside confirming their latest partnership.
CoreWeave said it provides AI cloud services to support poolside efforts to deploy agents across the enterprise. As part of this, we are offering a Frontier Scale cluster of Nvidia GB300 NVL72 systems containing over 40,000 Nvidia graphics processing units. These will be brought online in December to enhance poolside training.
CoreWeave will also provide Poolside with cloud services for Project Horizon, a massive AI campus planned to open in West Texas.
Co-founders Jason Warner and Eiso Canto explained in a blog post on Poolside’s website that the facility will be “built from the ground up to power the next generation of Frontier-scale training.”
He added: “This project is a logical next step for Poolside, where we will own not only the intelligence layer, but also the energy and computing infrastructure to support it.”
The center will be built on a 560-acre parcel of a 500,000-acre family ranch, and is expected to be vast, with initial indications that it could be one of the largest in the United States.
CoreWeave will be the anchor tenant and operating partner for the campus’s initial 250-megawatt phase under a 15-year lease agreement, with 500 megawatts set aside for expansion. The final capacity could be 2 gigawatts.
Financial details have not been disclosed, but wall street journal Kant was quoted as saying that the industry standard for the cost of a 2 gigawatt data center is about $16 billion. However, Poolside expects the total cost to be lower due to its use of modular construction techniques.
Poolside added that this location will help make this huge undertaking a reality. Being located in the heart of the energy-rich Permian Basin provides the center with direct access to abundant, low-cost natural gas.
The partnership comes just weeks after CoreWeave won a $14.2 billion contract While our partnership with Meta Platforms will provide service through 2031, our appetite for expansion is reflected in the following acquisitions: London Monolith AI At the beginning of October.
“The poolside approach to the underlying model represents exactly the breakthrough work that the CoreWeave platform is designed to accelerate,” said Michael Intrator, CoreWeave co-founder and CEO. said In release. “Together, we are building the performance layer that defines how AI research works in the real world.”
Kant added: “This partnership…will ensure instant access to next-generation silicon, allowing us to train trillions of parameter models with reinforcement learning at scale. With this secured, we are now able to demonstrate the combined benefits of research, engineering, and data.”
