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Cirrascale Cloud Services

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…

Founded
2017
HQ
San Diego, California, USA
Status
active

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.

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Active incidents
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Key facts

Headquarters

San Diego, California

Founded (as cloud-only entity)

2017, when Cirrascale Corporation sold its hardware line to BOXX Technologies and the remaining cloud business was renamed Cirrascale Cloud Services

Ownership

Private; acquired by Craftsman Capital Partners in 2017; no disclosed follow-on funding round

Accelerator lineup

Nvidia B200, H200, H100, A100, RTX A5000; AMD Instinct MI300X and MI250; Qualcomm Cloud AI; Tenstorrent Galaxy

Announced annual pricing (8-GPU nodes)

Nvidia B200 8x from $27,999/mo on annual term (~$4.79/GPU-hr); H200 8x $21,199/mo (~$3.63/GPU-hr); AMD MI300X 8x $17,999/mo (~$3.08/GPU-hr); A100 80GB 8x $15,199/mo (~$2.60/GPU-hr)

Billing model

Flat monthly billing with no ingress or egress data-transfer fees; up to 20% discount on multi-year commitments

Datacenter footprint

US only; three regions described as US-West, US-East, and US-South; specific sites and megawatt capacity not disclosed

GPU count / capacity

Not disclosed; company publishes no fleet size, MW figure, or datacenter map

Named customer / partner

Google Public Sector collaboration for research-compute acceleration; ecosystem partners include Dell (Platinum), WekaIO, IBM PowerAI, H2O.ai

Positioning

Multi-silicon long-tail specialist: sells access to Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm, and Tenstorrent side by side rather than an Nvidia-only fleet, aimed at research, higher-ed, and public-sector buyers

Data & sources

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Safety record

No incidents on record for Cirrascale Cloud Services.

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Cirrascale Cloud Services on the data-center map

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Cirrascale Cloud Services data centers (2)

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