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Fluidstack

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FluidStack is a GPU-cloud operator that has repositioned itself from a marketplace-style aggregator of third-party compute into a build-to-own AI…

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The verified answer

As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Fluidstack: $830.0M raised. 7 sources back the record.

Funding

$830.0M

Overview

FluidStack is a GPU-cloud operator that has repositioned itself from a marketplace-style aggregator of third-party compute into a build-to-own AI infrastructure developer, marketed on the promise of standing up gigawatt-scale clusters in roughly six months rather than the industry norm of eighteen to twenty-four. Its defining relationship is with Anthropic, which selected FluidStack to lead a roughly $50 billion, multi-site custom data center build across New York and Texas, framing the company less as a peer to on-demand neoclouds like Lambda or CoreWeave and more as a dedicated infrastructure arm for a single frontier lab.

The company raised an unusually large $830 million Series A in January 2026, relocated its global headquarters from London to New York City, and has been hiring aggressively across power, construction, and hardware disciplines to execute the Anthropic buildout. In Europe it is one of the operators tied to France's national AI push, working with Eclairion and Mistral on the Etché campus and running clusters with Nvidia, Dell and Borealis Data Center; it also arranged GPU financing with Macquarie to seed European research labs.

FluidStack has not published a fleet-wide GPU count or an operational-megawatt figure, and its historical business as a lightweight aggregator on top of colocation partners means public disclosure lags peers like CoreWeave and Nebius. SemiAnalysis awarded it a ClusterMAX Gold rating in 2025, and the Anthropic anchor plus the fresh capital have made it one of the more closely watched private neoclouds heading into 2026.

Verified record

Verified deployments
None on file
Active incidents
None on file

Key facts

Headquarters

Relocated global HQ to New York City in 2026 (previously London)

Status

private

Type

brain

Series A funding

$830M closed January 2026 (unusually large for a nominal Series A; used to fund the Anthropic build-out and NYC HQ move)

Anchor customer

Anthropic selected FluidStack to lead delivery of its ~$50B custom data center program in New York and Texas

Delivery pitch

Company markets ability to bring gigawatts of AI compute online in ~6 months versus the industry's 18-24 months

Europe footprint

Partner on France's Etché AI campus with Eclairion and Mistral AI; running exascale Nvidia GPU clusters in Europe with Dell and Borealis Data Center

GPU financing

Partnered with Macquarie on GPU asset financing to supply AI research labs across Europe

Third-party rating

Awarded ClusterMAX Gold by SemiAnalysis (2025), one of the higher tiers in that neocloud audit

Hiring / scale signal

267 open roles listed in August 2026 across power, hardware, design, construction and operations, reflecting the pivot from aggregator to build-to-own operator

Fleet disclosure

Has not publicly disclosed total operational GPU count, generation mix, or aggregate MW capacity as of August 2026

Silicon partners

Nvidia (primary GPU supplier, joint deployments in Europe) and Dell Technologies (systems integrator); no disclosed AMD, Cerebras or Intel Gaudi footprint

Positioning

Training-focused; dedicated large-cluster build for a single frontier lab (Anthropic) plus sovereign-AI clusters in Europe, rather than on-demand hourly rental for a long tail

Ownership

Private; no ticker

Power capacity (planned)

~360 MW contracted (Lake Mariner); ~980 MW total planned

Primary accelerator

NVIDIA H100 / H200 / B200 / GB200

Cipher Barber Lake lease amendment + AI-lab follow-on (Sep 2026)

Company-stated by Cipher (company-stated; also GlobeNewswire PR via Manila Times): Fluidstack USA II Inc.'s Barber Lake Lease with Cipher was amended Sep 24 2026 alongside Cipher's binding commitment with an unnamed leading AI lab for a separate 10-year lease after Fluidstack's term (aggregate facility contracted term 10→20 years; ~$5.2B incremental / over $9B total contracted revenue at site per Cipher). Cap: Cipher 8-K/PR; Fluidstack did not issue a matching primary in this ingest

Data & sources

Web sources

7

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Partnerships

Every company Fluidstack has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.

3 total2 operating1 just announced

Most-frequent partners

  1. 1AWS1× joint976 total
  2. 2Nvidia1× joint
  3. 3NVIDIA1× joint1114 total

Most recent

Relationships

AAWSTechnology partnerNNVIDIATechnology partner

Safety record

No incidents on record for Fluidstack.

Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →

Fluidstack on the data-center map

Every verified data center Fluidstack operates that has a mapped coordinate (4 total). Filled circles are Tier-2 facilities and Tier-1 campuses under this operator; click any pin to open its record.

Fluidstack data centers (6)

AI data centers Fluidstack operates or is a party to, from the DEPLOY data center registry.

Recent coverage

Fluidstack in third-party press

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Crusoe And Fluidstack Lead Multibillion-Dollar AI Infrastructure Haul

Sep 4, 2026

Stack Capital Group Inc. Reports Q2-2026 Financial Results - The Globe and Mail

Aug 5, 2026

AI hedge fund Situational Awareness may have sold its public portfolio, but it still has its Anthropic shares - TechCrunch

Jul 30, 2026