Crusoe, founded in 2018 by Chase Lochmiller and Cully Cavness, designs, builds, and operates purpose-built data centers and a cloud platform for AI workloads. The company takes a vertically integrated approach to infrastructure, controlling the stack from energy sourcing through to compute delivery. Its data centers are powered by clean energy sources including wind, solar, geothermal, and hydropower, and are built at gigawatt scale.
The company's origins lie in converting wasted natural gas from oil fields into power for computing operations - an approach that initially supported bitcoin mining before the business pivoted toward AI infrastructure. That energy-first philosophy remains central to how Crusoe operates today. Hardware partnerships with NVIDIA and AMD underpin its cloud platform, which is designed to serve organisations building and running AI workloads at scale.
Crusoe has raised billions in funding. Its cloud platform and data center campuses are built to meet the growing demand for compute capacity that the AI industry requires, with sustainability integrated into the infrastructure model rather than treated as an add-on.