With AI infrastructure demand skyrocketing, GPU-rich crypto facilities are being repurposed for enterprise computing, offering speed, scale, and new operational risks.

Earlier this month, CoreWeave became the first cloud provider to deploy a GB300 NVL72 system (pictured). It’s an AI appliance based on the Blackwell Ultra, Nvidia’s newest and most advanced graphics card. The chip can run some workloads 50% faster than the earlier Blackwell B200.

CoreWeave will buy crypto miner Core Scientific in an all-stock deal valued at about $9 billion, it said on Monday, as AI infrastructure firms race to secure the energy and data center capacity needed to power surging demand.