CRUSOE RAISES $3.9B TO BUILD MASSIVE DATA CENTERS AND TRUCK-TRANSPORTABLE MODULAR "SPARK" AI FACTORIES

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Crusoe raised a $3.9 billion Series F, pushing its valuation to $30.9 billion, with the capital funding both large-scale sites like its Abilene, Texas data center used by OpenAI, and Spark, a line of smaller modular data centers Crusoe manufactures at its own facilities so they can be transported by truck and connected to power almost anywhere. Building these in-house lets Crusoe deploy compute fast without needing a large on-site construction workforce, and the smaller footprint helps sidestep some of the local community backlash that larger data center complexes increasingly draw.