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CoreWeave CEO: 42 data centers and 590 MW of active power after 2025

October 2, 2026, 16:12Source: CoreWeave
CoreWeave CEO: 42 data centers and 590 MW of active power after 2025
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CoreWeave says it brought 9 new data centers online in 2025, for a total of 42 active sites, and reached approximately 590 megawatts of active power by the end of Q3. In a year-end message, CEO Michael Intrator described the year as one in which the company delivered on the roadmap it set out when it went public.

Key points
  • CoreWeave brought 9 new data centers online in 2025, for 42 active data centers in total.
  • Active power reached approximately 590 megawatts by the end of Q3, with a path to more than 850 megawatts by year's end, per the company.
  • Contracted capacity stands at 2.9GW.
  • Headcount grew from roughly 900 to more than 2,000 employees.
  • The company launched CoreWeave Ventures and CoreWeave Federal and acquired Weights & Biases, Marimo, Monolith and OpenPipe.

Capacity and headcount grow

According to Intrator, CoreWeave's plan at the time of its IPO was to scale faster, diversify its customer base, expand its cloud platform and stay at the forefront of AI as workloads move from experimentation to production. He wrote that infrastructure shifted "from a consideration to a defining constraint" as demand for AI accelerated, in a market limited by the availability of compute, power and infrastructure.

The company says it grew from roughly 900 employees to more than 2,000 worldwide. Since the start of the year it brought 9 new data centers online across the United States and Europe, bringing its network to 42 active data centers.

CoreWeave also broke ground on additional sites. These include its first greenfield build in its home state of New Jersey, a flagship facility in Pennsylvania and multiple sites in the United Kingdom.

By the end of Q3, the company reached approximately 590 megawatts of active power. According to Intrator, there is a clear path toward exceeding 850 megawatts by year's end, across a portfolio of 2.9GW of contracted capacity.

A broader platform through products and acquisitions

Intrator described CoreWeave as having become an end-to-end platform for AI builders. Products and milestones he listed include:

  • industry-leading AI object storage, according to the company
  • the first publicly available serverless reinforcement learning product
  • continued development of CoreWeave Mission Control, which he called the operating standard for all AI use cases

The company also made acquisitions, naming Weights & Biases, Marimo, Monolith and OpenPipe. Intrator said these accelerated its evolution and added team members critical to its growth. He summarized the result as a tightly integrated suite of infrastructure and software that lets customers build and run AI systems continuously, reliably and at global scale.

On performance, Intrator said independent industry analysts repeatedly recognized CoreWeave as the leading AI cloud for performance, scalability and reliability. The message does not name the analysts or reports.

New customers, new programs

CoreWeave says it diversified its customer base materially in 2025. AI labs and startups continued to use its technology, while the company expanded to serve large enterprises and public-sector workloads.

Two launches support that push. CoreWeave Ventures is meant to support founders shaping the AI ecosystem. CoreWeave Federal extends the platform to begin meeting the security and performance requirements of public-sector organizations.

Intrator also said the company strengthened its balance sheet to drive down the cost of capital and fuel growth. He pointed to supply-chain constraints and rising expectations around reliability, efficiency and responsible deployment as pressures the industry faced during the year.

What it means

The message is a company-authored review, and the figures are CoreWeave's own. It shows the scale at which the company says it now operates: dozens of active data centers, hundreds of megawatts of power and a larger contracted pipeline. It also signals a move beyond raw compute toward software, storage and services for enterprises and government customers.

Intrator said the company is doubling down on this work in 2026, closing with the line: "More to come in 2026 and beyond."

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