Nvidia is putting another $2 billion into CoreWeave as the two companies deepen a partnership aimed at scaling “AI factories” — large data centers built for artificial intelligence workloads — to more than 5 gigawatts by 2030.
The investment is being made through the purchase of CoreWeave Class A common stock at $87.20 per share, and it comes as demand for AI computing continues to rise and cloud providers race to add capacity.
CoreWeave shares jumped in early trading after the announcement, rising more than 10% in premarket trading in one report, while another report said the stock was up more than 15% following the news.
What Nvidia and CoreWeave announced
Nvidia and CoreWeave said they are expanding a long-standing relationship to speed up the buildout of more than 5 gigawatts of AI factories by 2030, positioning CoreWeave to support AI adoption at global scale.
Nvidia described the $2 billion investment as a sign of confidence in CoreWeave’s business, team, and growth plan as a cloud platform built on Nvidia infrastructure.
The two companies framed the effort around meeting surging demand for compute, with CoreWeave developing and operating AI factories built on Nvidia’s accelerated computing platform technology.
How the partnership is expected to work
As part of the expanded collaboration, Nvidia said it will use its financial strength to help CoreWeave speed up procurement tied to data center expansion, including land, power, and “shell” needed to build AI factories.
The companies also said they plan to test and validate CoreWeave’s AI-native software and reference architecture — including SUNK and CoreWeave Mission Control — with the goal of deeper interoperability and potential inclusion within Nvidia reference architectures for cloud partners and enterprise customers.
On the hardware side, CoreWeave plans to deploy multiple generations of Nvidia infrastructure and pursue early adoption of upcoming computing architectures, including the Nvidia Rubin platform, Nvidia Vera CPUs, and Nvidia BlueField storage systems.
In a statement included with the announcement, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said, “AI is entering its next frontier and driving the largest infrastructure buildout in human history,” adding that the two companies are “racing to meet extraordinary demand for NVIDIA AI factories.”
CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator said the collaboration is rooted in the idea that “AI succeeds when software, infrastructure and operations are designed together,” and he added that the expanded work reflects demand CoreWeave is seeing across its customer base.
Stake details and market reaction
One report said Nvidia acquired the stake at $87.20 per share, and that the transaction would make Nvidia close to doubling its position in CoreWeave by adding about 23 million shares.
That same report said Nvidia previously held about 6.3% of CoreWeave — roughly 24.3 million shares — and that the added shares would make Nvidia CoreWeave’s second-largest shareholder, based on Reuters calculations using LSEG data.
CoreWeave’s stock moved sharply higher immediately after the announcement, though the reported size of the jump differed between sources.
CoreWeave’s expansion push and financial scrutiny
The investment and expanded partnership arrive as CoreWeave works to rapidly grow its AI data center footprint and capacity, including a target to add more than 5 gigawatts of AI compute by 2030.
At the same time, CoreWeave has faced scrutiny in recent months over raising billions in debt to keep expanding its data center operations, according to one report.
That report cited PitchBook data saying CoreWeave had $18.81 billion in debt obligations as of September 2025, and it also said the company reported revenue of $1.36 billion in the third quarter.
The same source said Intrator has defended CoreWeave’s approach of funding operations by raising debt with its GPUs as collateral, and it quoted him discussing industry cooperation to address a “violent change in supply and demand.”
CoreWeave’s business has evolved over time, with one report describing its transition from a crypto mining company to a provider of data center services for AI training and inference.
Since its IPO in March last year, CoreWeave has also made multiple acquisitions, including Weights & Biases and OpenPipe, and it agreed to acquire Marimo and Monolith, according to the same report.
That report also said CoreWeave expanded a cloud partnership with OpenAI and counts OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft among its customers.
