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- CoreWeave, Nscale neocloud economics under scrutiny
Concerns about the enormous amounts of debt financing behind the AI infrastructure boom are putting the neocloud sector under increasing scrutiny, according to a Bloomberg Tech segment. Decoding Discontinuity CEO Raphaelle D'Ornano discussed the pressure on CoreWeave as interest expenses weigh on its economics, saying investors are looking beyond contracted backlogs to financed and energized capacity. She also noted that Nscale, which is preparing for a potential IPO, differs through its vertically integrated approach.
Bloomberg Technology · 🔥 8 - Nscale targets up to $35B IPO as Norway AI data center slips six months
Bloomberg reports that UK AI infrastructure firm Nscale plans to launch an IPO as soon as this month, seeking to raise up to $3 billion at a valuation of as much as $35 billion. Sources say its flagship AI data center in Norway is about six months behind schedule — with workers set to be housed in a floating hotel to finish it — and that the project has also faced regulatory hurdles, a fire and other delays, with penalties owed to Microsoft and ByteDance. The report adds that investors are growing warier of the risks of the AI buildout.
Bloomberg Technology · 🔥 12 - Nscale raises $3.36B pre-IPO, including $1B from Nvidia
AI infrastructure company Nscale said it raised $3.36 billion through convertible loan notes, including a $1 billion commitment from Nvidia, with the funds expected to arrive in mid-November 2026. The London-based firm has filed a Form S-1 registration statement with the US SEC for a New York Stock Exchange listing, and market expectations put its valuation as high as roughly $35 billion, up from $146 billion less than a month earlier. Nscale disclosed active and signed total contract value of about $103.4 billion, anchored by an Anthropic GPU services deal signed in August 2026 worth up to roughly $44.6–45 billion for about 460 MW at the West Virginia Monarch campus, deploying Nvidia's Vera Rubin GPUs.
智东西 · 🔥 0 - Report: IREN's mystery AI cloud customer is Anthropic
Citing The Information (relayed by Stocktwits and Chosun Ilbo), reports say the mystery AI cloud customer IREN Limited teased on an earnings call is Anthropic, which has signed a multi-year cloud contract that has not been announced; neither company confirmed it, and the value and term were not disclosed. IREN shares jumped in Asian trading on Monday, rising as much as 8.5% to $38.17, after closing at $35.19 on Oct 9, a low not seen since late July. The report also says Anthropic has signed data-center leases with more than 10 cloud providers including AWS and Google, totaling over 15GW and about $530 billion, with capacity projected to grow from 1.4GW in 2025 to 5GW and 9.5GW and to exceed 15GW in 2028; IREN CEO Daniel Roberts said in August that it had signed a top AI lab without naming the customer. The report notes that research firm SemiAnalysis last week questioned the quality of IREN's older British Columbia data centers, and that heavy lease costs could pressure Anthropic's margins.
科技新报 · 🔥 0 - AI startup M&A hits 195 deals this year, OpenAI the most active buyer
Per Crunchbase data, VC-backed AI companies had made 195 acquisitions of AI startups as of Sept 29, 14% more than all of 2025, though only 12 of the deals disclosed a price. OpenAI is the most active buyer of the past three years with 20 AI-related acquisitions, 10 of them this year, followed by Anthropic and legal-AI startup Legora with five each. The largest disclosed deal was Nscale's $1.65B purchase of Anyscale, ahead of Cyera's $1B deal for Oasis Security and Anthropic's $400M acquisition of Coefficient Bio.
智东西 · 🔥 0 - Europe's Q3 venture funding hits $25B, a four-year high, with AI taking 75%
European startups raised $25B in Q3, up 77% year over year and the region's strongest venture quarter in four years, accounting for 16% of global VC, according to Crunchbase data. AI companies took 75% of that, or $18.8B, a record share, with four rounds — Mistral's €3B Series D (about $3.5B), Nscale's $3.36B convertible note, Helsing's $1.8B and Quantum Systems' $1.2B — making up roughly 40% of the total. North America fell 35% quarter over quarter to $92B, largely because there were no new megarounds for OpenAI or Anthropic in the period.
Techmeme · 🔥 0 - AI neocloud Lambda to raise $4B at $14.5B valuation ahead of 2027 IPO
Cloud provider Lambda is raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation, led by Coatue Management and Blackstone, in what could be its last private round before a planned 2027 IPO, according to The Wall Street Journal. TechCrunch, citing an investor letter, reports Lambda's backlog grew from $15 billion in June to $50 billion in September, with much of that increase driven by a $35 billion commitment from Anthropic signed in late August. Lambda also closed an additional $1 billion in debt financing last week to buy more chips.
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