CoreWeave expands its AI compute sales deal with Meta by $21 billion
CoreWeave announced that it’s significantly boosting its sales of AI computing capacity to Meta.
The neocloud will now provide an additional $21 billion in AI compute to the social media giant through December 2032.
CoreWeave had previously booked a $14.2 billion deal back in September that included an option to expand the commitment, which has been exercised with today’s announcement along with new compute purchased.
Shares jumped in premarket trading, but gave all that advance and then some to trade down 3.5% as of 10:10 a.m. ET.
CoreWeave recently closed a financing deal that management billed as the first of its kind, as it was backed by its chips and Meta’s AI compute purchase. This ability to effectively borrow Meta’s superior creditworthiness helped CoreWeave reduce its cost of debt.
Separately, CoreWeave also announced that it intends to issue $3 billion in senior convertible notes due in 2032 and $1.25 billion in senior notes due in 2031 in separate private offerings.
“As spending on AI infrastructure continues to accelerate so does the need for additional debt funding, with both Meta and CoreWeave likely to continue to tap debt markets as their cloud capacity agreement expands,” wrote Bloomberg Intelligence credit analysts Robert Schiffman and Alex Reid.
Update (10:34 a.m. ET): A previous version of this post erroneously stated that the $21 billion deal was inclusive of the prior $14.2 billion in purchase commitments.