Our Capacity Plans for CoreWeave Data Centers | CoreWeave
May 20, 2026
Summary
This post details CoreWeave's capacity plans for its data centers, focusing on addressing the challenges of increased rack power consumption with liquid-cooled infrastructure supporting ~130kW racks, and the limitations of traditional data center designs for AI workloads through purpose-built facilities and strategic vendor partnerships. It also highlights the prioritization of maximum performance and resilience through optimized storage (LOTA), networking (NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand), and automated fleet/node lifecycle management. The post further discusses the need for access to dynamic, burstable compute capacity.
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