Crusoe designs, builds, and operates purpose-built data centers and cloud computing infrastructure powered by renewable energy sources including wind, solar, geothermal, and hydropower. Founded in 2018 by Chase Lochmiller and Cully Cavness, the company operates gigawatt-scale data center campuses and has raised billions in funding. The infrastructure supports AI workloads through partnerships with NVIDIA and AMD, offering GPU-backed cloud services focused on the trade-off between computational scale and energy sustainability.
The company's technical stack spans cluster orchestration (Kubernetes, Slurm), infrastructure automation (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet), and distributed storage systems (Ceph, GlusterFS, OpenEBS). Development work involves Python, Go, Java, and C, with infrastructure built on Linux, NVMe storage, and RDMA networking to support high-throughput AI training and inference workloads. The vertical integration approach extends from data center construction through hardware partnerships to cloud platform operations.
Crusoe evolved from early operations converting wasted natural gas from oil fields into computing power for bitcoin mining. The current focus is AI infrastructure delivery, where the energy-first approach addresses the operational constraint of power availability at scale - a bottleneck increasingly relevant as model size and inference volume grow. The cloud platform enables organizations to deploy AI solutions with access to GPU capacity backed by renewable energy sources, though specific performance characteristics, availability zones, and pricing models are not publicly detailed in standard materials.
