Core Scientific Stock Price, News & Analysis
Company Description
Core Scientific, Inc. (NASDAQ: CORZ) operates in the information sector within data processing, hosting and related services. According to company disclosures, Core Scientific describes itself as a leader in digital infrastructure for high-density colocation services and digital asset mining. The company trades on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol CORZ and remains a publicly traded company following the termination of a proposed merger with CoreWeave, Inc.
Business model and operating segments
Core Scientific designs, builds and operates digital infrastructure for high-performance computing. As summarized in public information, its business has historically operated through three segments: Digital Asset Self-Mining, Digital Asset Hosted Mining, and High-Density Colocation (HDC, formerly HPC hosting). Digital Asset Self-Mining consists of performing digital asset mining for the company’s own account using its own fleet of computers, referred to as miners. Digital Asset Hosted Mining consists of providing hosting services to third parties for digital asset mining. The HDC segment consists of providing hosting services to third parties for graphics processing unit (GPU)-based high-performance computing hosting operations.
The company has stated that it currently derives the majority of its revenue from earning digital assets for its own account, while revenue from high-density colocation is expected to increase. This reflects an evolution from a primarily digital asset mining profile toward a greater emphasis on colocation services that support high-performance computing workloads.
Digital infrastructure and colocation services
Core Scientific reports that it operates dedicated, purpose-built facilities for high-density colocation services. It characterizes itself as a premier provider of digital infrastructure, software solutions and services to third-party customers that require high-density computing capacity. The company’s facilities are designed to host both its own miners and customer equipment, supporting workloads that include digital asset mining and other high-density computing tasks.
The company has disclosed that it is in the process of converting most of its existing facilities to support artificial intelligence-related workloads and next generation colocation services. This conversion strategy is tied to its high-density colocation business, which the company refers to as HDC. Core Scientific has indicated that, as circumstances allow, it intends to repurpose remaining facilities currently used in its digital asset mining businesses to support its high-density colocation computing services business, while seeking to retain access to electrical power under its control, maximize the value of its digital asset mining equipment to third parties, and fulfill existing obligations to suppliers and customers.
Digital asset self-mining and hosted mining
In its Digital Asset Self-Mining segment, Core Scientific employs its own miners to earn digital assets for its own account. This activity exposes the company to digital asset price movements and network conditions, including changes in total network hash rate. In its Digital Asset Hosted Mining segment, the company provides hosting services to third-party digital asset miners, earning revenue from hosting arrangements rather than directly from mined assets.
Company disclosures note that revenue from digital asset hosted mining has declined in connection with a strategic shift toward high-density colocation. At the same time, the company continues to operate self-mining activities that contribute a significant share of total revenue. These segments, together with HDC, form the core of its data processing and hosting business.
Facilities and geographic footprint
Core Scientific reports that its facilities are located in several U.S. states. According to the company, it operates sites in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma and Texas. The company specifies that it has multiple facilities in some of these states, including more than one facility in Georgia and Texas. These locations provide access to the electrical power resources needed for high-density computing and digital asset mining operations.
Strategic shift toward AI-related workloads
Public statements by the company emphasize an ongoing transformation of its infrastructure to support artificial intelligence-related workloads and next generation colocation services. Core Scientific has indicated that it is converting most of its existing facilities to support AI-related workloads and that it expects to rapidly increase revenue derived from high-density colocation. The company’s stated intention is to repurpose facilities used in digital asset mining into high-density colocation computing sites, while managing power access and existing contractual commitments.
External commentary from investors and market participants has described Core Scientific as participating in the broader build-out of AI infrastructure. For example, shareholder communications from Two Seas Capital refer to Core Scientific’s power access, site construction and management expertise, existing infrastructure and future pipeline, and discuss its role in AI-related data center development. These third-party views highlight how some investors perceive the company’s assets within the evolving high-performance computing and AI landscape.
Corporate and capital markets context
Core Scientific is incorporated in Delaware and has reported a principal office location in Dover, Delaware in its SEC filings. The company’s common stock is registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and its filings reference associated warrants trading under related symbols. As of the record date disclosed for a special meeting of stockholders, the company had hundreds of millions of shares of common stock outstanding and entitled to vote.
On July 7, 2025, Core Scientific entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger with CoreWeave, Inc. and a CoreWeave subsidiary. Under that agreement, CoreWeave would have acquired Core Scientific in an all-stock transaction, with each share of Core Scientific common stock to be converted into a specified number of shares of CoreWeave Class A common stock, subject to stockholder approval and other conditions. However, at a special meeting of stockholders held on October 30, 2025, the proposal to adopt the Merger Agreement did not receive the necessary approval from Core Scientific stockholders. Following the meeting, Core Scientific terminated the Merger Agreement effective October 30, 2025, as disclosed in multiple Form 8-K filings. The company has stated that it will remain a publicly traded company and that its common stock will continue to trade on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol CORZ.
Regulatory disclosures and risk factors
In its SEC filings and press releases, Core Scientific discusses a range of risks associated with its business. These include its ability to earn digital assets profitably, attract customers for high-density colocation capabilities, and perform under existing colocation agreements. The company also notes risks related to maintaining its competitive position in its operating segments, changes in total network hash rate, access to significant electric power resources, potential failures in critical systems and facilities, and physical and regulatory risks associated with climate change.
Additional risk disclosures address potential changes to the method of validating blockchain transactions, vulnerability to physical security breaches, market and economic conditions affecting high-density computing and blockchain hosting, price volatility of digital assets (particularly bitcoin), potential changes in regulatory interpretations affecting digital asset mining firms, and possible legislative or regulatory actions targeting digital assets and related intermediaries. The company also references risks related to compliance and risk management methods and the adequacy of recovery sources if digital assets held by the company are lost, stolen or destroyed due to third-party digital asset services.
Investor communications and governance
Core Scientific regularly communicates with investors through press releases, conference calls and investor presentations. For example, the company announced an investor conference call and webcast to be hosted by members of its executive team, and it has furnished investor presentations as exhibits to Form 8-K filings. These materials discuss its business segments, strategic priorities and financial performance, and are incorporated by reference in certain SEC filings.
The company’s SEC filings also describe corporate governance processes around major transactions, including the special meeting of stockholders to consider the proposed merger with CoreWeave. Detailed voting results from that meeting, including votes for, against and abstaining on the merger proposal and an advisory compensation proposal, are provided in Form 8-K disclosures. These filings illustrate how Core Scientific reports material events and stockholder actions under SEC requirements.
Position within data processing and hosting
Within the broader data processing, hosting and related services industry, Core Scientific’s disclosures emphasize its focus on high-density colocation services, digital asset mining and GPU-based high-performance computing hosting. The company’s combination of self-mining, hosted mining and high-density colocation facilities, along with its stated transition toward AI-related workloads, defines its role in providing digital infrastructure that supports both blockchain-based activities and high-performance computing applications.