Crusoe融资39亿美元,用于建设大型数据中心和小型模块化“AI工厂”

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Crusoe融资39亿美元,用于建设大型数据中心和小型模块化“AI工厂”

内容来源:https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/crusoe-raises-3-9b-to-build-massive-data-centers-and-small-modular-ai-factories/

内容总结:

数据中心开发商Crusoe于本周四宣布完成39亿美元F轮融资,公司估值随之攀升至309亿美元。本轮融资由Atreides Management、Mubadala Capital和Valor Equity Partners联合领投,Founders Fund、新加坡政府投资公司(GIC)、英伟达、卡塔尔投资局(QIA)、Radical Ventures和TPG等机构参投。

Crusoe同时宣布新增三名董事会成员:Cloudflare首席财务官Thomas Seifert、Primary Digital Infrastructure合伙人兼首席投资官Bill Stein,以及Redwood Materials创始人兼首席执行官JB Straubel——后者同时担任特斯拉董事会成员。Straubel与Crusoe早有渊源,他于2021年以个人身份投资了该公司,Crusoe后来成为Redwood储能业务的首个客户。

这家成立八年的公司将利用新注入的资金为现有数据中心项目提供资金支持,包括位于得克萨斯州阿比林、供OpenAI使用的大型站点,以及可由卡车运输、几乎能在任何地点接入大型电源的小型模块化AI工厂。

通过在其自有设施中制造这些名为“Spark”的模块化数据中心,Crusoe能够快速部署算力,无需依赖大规模施工队伍。这些小型数据中心还可以帮助Crusoe在一定程度上规避数据中心开发商面临的另一大障碍:附近社区居民对大型综合体项目的抗议。

Crusoe联合创始人兼首席执行官Chase Lochmiller在声明中表示,他相信AI将开启一个富足时代,但要实现这一目标,意味着“掌控从电子到Token的整个基础设施链条,我们很感激有认同这一理念的投资者”。

该公司的盈利模式包括:向自带GPU的客户出租数据中心空间、出租自有GPU,以及出售用于运行AI模型的算力(即推理服务)。

这种三管齐下的商业模式帮助Crusoe跻身最具价值的AI基础设施公司之列。据彭博社报道,Crusoe近期签署了一份为期五年、价值130亿美元的大型云合同,为量化交易公司Jane Street提供GPU和AI基础设施。

据Axios上月报道,该公司近期与高盛、摩根士丹利等投资银行会面,讨论了短期内潜在IPO的可能性。

本轮融资距离Crusoe上一次融资仅过去10个月——去年10月,该公司以100亿美元估值完成了13.8亿美元融资。

Crusoe成立于2018年,最初是一家利用放空天然气发电进行加密货币挖矿的企业,随着算力需求飙升,公司转型进军AI基础设施领域。其客户包括Meta、微软和甲骨文。

中文翻译:

数据中心开发商Crusoe周四表示,其在F轮融资中筹集了39亿美元,估值随之推高至309亿美元。这轮巨额融资由Atreides Management、Mubadala Capital和Valor Equity Partners联合领投。据Crusoe透露,Founders Fund、GIC、英伟达、卡塔尔投资局、Radical Ventures和TPG也参与了本轮投资。
Crusoe还宣布新增三名董事会成员,包括Cloudflare首席财务官Thomas Seifert、Primary Digital Infrastructure合伙人兼首席投资官Bill Stein,以及Redwood Materials创始人兼首席执行官JB Straubel——后者同时担任特斯拉董事会成员。Straubel与Crusoe已有渊源:他曾在2021年以个人身份投资该公司,Crusoe后来也成为Redwood储能业务的首个客户。
这家成立八年的公司此次获得的新资金将用于为现有数据中心项目提供融资,包括位于德克萨斯州阿比林的一座大型站点——该站点供OpenAI使用——以及更小型的模块化AI工厂,后者可通过卡车运输,几乎能在任何地方接入大型电源。
通过在其自有设施中制造这些名为Spark的模块化数据中心,Crusoe能够快速部署算力,且无需大量建筑工人。这些较小的数据中心还可以帮助Crusoe至少在一定程度上规避数据中心开发商面临的另一大障碍:当地社区对在自家附近建设大型综合设施的抗议。
Crusoe联合创始人兼首席执行官Chase Lochmiller(见上图)在一份声明中表示,他相信AI将开启一个富足的时代,但要实现这一目标,意味着“从电子到token全链条掌控基础设施,我们很感激有认同这一信念的投资者”。
该公司的盈利模式包括:向自带GPU的客户出租数据中心空间、出租自有GPU,以及出售用于运行AI模型的算力(即推理)。
这种三管齐下的商业模式帮助Crusoe成为最具价值的AI基础设施公司之一。据彭博社报道,Crusoe近期签署了一份为期五年、价值130亿美元的大型云合同,为量化交易公司Jane Street提供GPU和AI基础设施。
据Axios上月报道,该公司近期与包括高盛和摩根士丹利在内的投资银行会面,讨论了在不久的将来进行首次公开募股的可能性。
本轮融资距离Crusoe上次融资仅过去10个月——去年10月,该公司以100亿美元估值筹集了13.8亿美元。
该公司成立于2018年,最初是一家利用伴生天然气发电进行加密货币挖矿的企业,但随着算力需求飙升,转而进军AI基础设施领域。Crusoe的客户包括Meta、微软和甲骨文。

英文来源:

Data center developer Crusoe said Thursday it raised $3.9 billion in a Series F round that pushes its valuation to $30.9 billion. The massive round was co-led by Atreides Management, Mubadala Capital, and Valor Equity Partners. Founders Fund, GIC, Nvidia, Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), Radical Ventures, and TPG also participated, according to Crusoe.
Crusoe also announced three new board members, including Cloudflare CFO Thomas Seifert; Bill Stein, partner and CIO at Primary Digital Infrastructure; and Redwood Materials founder and CEO JB Straubel, who also sits on Tesla’s board. Straubel already has ties to Crusoe; he personally invested in the company in 2021, and Crusoe later became the first customer of Redwood’s energy storage business.
The eight-year-old company’s fresh capital infusion will help finance existing data center projects, including a large site in Abilene, Texas, used by OpenAI, as well as smaller, modular AI factories that can be transported by truck and connected to large power sources almost anywhere.
By manufacturing these modular data centers, called Spark, at its own facilities, Crusoe can deploy compute capacity quickly and without the need for large construction workforces. The smaller centers could also help Crusoe sidestep, at least in part, another major obstacle facing data center developers: backlash from local communities protesting massive complexes near their neighborhoods.
Crusoe co-founder and CEO Chase Lochmiller, who is pictured above, said in a statement he believes AI will usher in an era of abundance, but to get there will mean “controlling the infrastructure from electrons to tokens, and we’re grateful to have investors who share that conviction.”
The company makes money by leasing data center space to customers that bring their own GPUs, by renting out its own GPUs, and by selling compute power used to run AI models, known as inference.
This three-pronged business model has helped make Crusoe one of the most valuable AI infrastructure companies. Crusoe recently signed a massive $13 billion, five-year cloud contract to supply quantitative trading firm Jane Street with GPUs and AI infrastructure, Bloomberg reported.
The company recently met with investment bankers, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, to discuss a potential IPO in the near future, Axios reported last month.
The fresh fundraise comes 10 months after Crusoe raised $1.38 billion at a $10 billion valuation last October.
The company was founded in 2018 as a crypto mining operation powered by flared natural gas, but pivoted to AI infrastructure as demand for computing power skyrocketed. Crusoe’s customers include Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle.

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