Overview
Cirrascale Cloud Services is a San Diego-based GPU cloud operator that spun out of Cirrascale Corporation's hardware business in 2017, when the parent company sold its blade and rackmount server line to BOXX Technologies and rebranded the remaining cloud arm. Founder David Driggers, a veteran of Verari Systems, still runs the company as chairman and CEO.
Private equity firm Craftsman Capital Partners acquired the cloud business the same year and remains its backer.\n\nCirrascale's distinguishing pitch inside the neocloud pack is accelerator breadth rather than Nvidia scale. Alongside Nvidia H100, H200, B200, and A100 systems, it offers AMD Instinct MI250 and MI300X capacity, Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 inference nodes, and Tenstorrent Galaxy systems, and it has been a longtime launch partner for non-Nvidia silicon (Cerebras, Graphcore, and SambaNova all used Cirrascale to expose their chips as a cloud service in the 2020-2023 window).
The company markets a flat monthly billing model with no ingress or egress data-transfer fees, positioning itself against the per-second hyperscaler meter for research labs, universities, and public-sector buyers, including a named research-compute relationship with Google Public Sector.\n\nCirrascale is a small, privately held operator rather than a hyperscale challenger: it does not publish GPU counts, megawatt capacity, or a datacenter map, describing its footprint only as US-West, US-East, and US-South regions. That opacity, plus the absence of any 2024-2026 fundraise or acquisition of record, places it in the long-tail-specialist tier of the GPU-cloud market rather than the CoreWeave/Lambda/Crusoe scale-up cohort.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Headquarters
Founded (as cloud-only entity)
Ownership
Accelerator lineup
Announced annual pricing (8-GPU nodes)
Billing model
Datacenter footprint
GPU count / capacity
Named customer / partner
Positioning
Data & sources
Web sources
4
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Current leadership (3)
- David Driggers Founder, Chairman and CEOreported, not verified
- Larry Weissman Chief Financial Officerreported, not verified
- Al Lucarelli Vice President of Salesreported, not verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for Cirrascale Cloud Services.
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Cirrascale Cloud Services on the data-center map
Every verified data center Cirrascale Cloud Services operates that has a mapped coordinate (2 total). Filled circles are Tier-2 facilities and Tier-1 campuses under this operator; click any pin to open its record.
Cirrascale Cloud Services data centers (2)
- Cirrascale Santa ClaraSanta Clara, California, USA · energized
- Cirrascale US-West regionSan Diego, California, USA · energized
AI data centers Cirrascale Cloud Services operates or is a party to, from the DEPLOY data center registry.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdAug 28, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (4)
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Methodology: Verified · 4 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-30
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-30
Sources by quality tier
- 3
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 1
- knowledge-base
- Knowledge base
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Cirrascale Cloud Services.Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/cirrascale.md
- RSS feed: /companies/cirrascale/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/ecae24e9-1a96-496b-8d5b-b10f2b92e0da
- Revision history: /companies/cirrascale/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place Cirrascale Cloud Services against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Aug 30, 2026