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Brandon McBee

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Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

Like not only do you have electricity, do you have the land, et cetera, but you have the backup battery supplies, you have the transformers, you have personnel, right?

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

Just think about the electricians, right?

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

for these sites and getting the accreditation on the electrician side to be able to participate in these builds.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

I think it's a five-year plus apprenticeship to be able to go through that program.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

We can't just make new electricians leveraging a supply chain.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

That's a trade that you can't really scale efficiently.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

So that is absolutely the bottleneck for us.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

And I think our peer set that's out there right now, access to chips.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

I think we have a phenomenal relationship with NVIDIA where we've just proven to be the best operator of this infrastructure on the planet.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

You know, a bottleneck that existed for us previously, I think was access to financing.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

Right.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

I would agree with that broadly, but that's years of work and execution that has delivered that ability for us.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

I mean, year to date, we've raised over $21 billion of financing for our business.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

You don't get to do that and just go from zero to 20 out of nowhere.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

And I think that's largely driven by our track record of execution, right?

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

Our investors, our creditors can see this deep set of experience over the years of consistently delivering on these builds.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

I mean, we have over a gigawatt in active power at this point, right?

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

Like a gigawatt at the data center level with GPUs delivered into clients.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

I think that there has been kind of a misunderstanding in the market where people are conflating the concept that like, you know, something on paper is the equivalent to being physically done and delivered.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

And all I can say is there's an enormous gap between, you know, signing for power or delivery in 2030 and