Crusoe signs ~$13B five-year GPU cloud deal with Jane Street
Crusoe, a data center startup supplying AI compute to Meta and Oracle, has signed a roughly $13 billion, five-year agreement with trading firm Jane Street to provide GPUs and other infrastructure via its cloud platform. The deal underscores growing demand for dedicated AI cloud capacity from financial firms.
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Bloomberg : Sources: Crusoe signed a ~$13B, five-year deal with Jane Street to provide GPUs and other infrastructure for AI training and inference via its cloud platform — Crusoe, a data center upstart with contracts to supply AI computing power to the likes of Meta Platforms Inc. and Oracle Corp. …

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