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Voltage Park

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Voltage Park is a US GPU cloud operator launched in 2023 as a Navigation Fund-backed initiative of crypto billionaire Jed McCaleb (co-founder of Ripple and…

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Overview

Voltage Park is a US GPU cloud operator launched in 2023 as a Navigation Fund-backed initiative of crypto billionaire Jed McCaleb (co-founder of Ripple and Stellar), which spent roughly $500 million to buy and stand up a 24,000 NVIDIA H100 fleet and rent it out at deliberately low, transparent hourly prices. Unlike hyperscale-tethered neoclouds, Voltage Park was structured to serve the long tail of AI research labs, startups, and universities that could not get allocation from AWS, CoreWeave, or Lambda in the post-ChatGPT GPU squeeze.

By 2025 the fleet had grown to roughly 36,000 GPUs spanning Hopper (H100), Blackwell (B200), and Grace Blackwell (GB200) generations, deployed across six Tier 3+ colocation facilities in four US states in partnership with Dell, NVIDIA, Penguin Solutions, and Vast Data. Voltage Park was named a reference NVIDIA Cloud Partner in November 2025 and publishes on-demand H100 pricing starting at $1.99 per GPU-hour, positioning itself as one of the cheapest transparent rate cards in the neocloud pack. Named customers include Cursor, Prime Intellect, Imbue, Luma AI, Covariant, Phind, Dream3D, and Caltech.

In January 2026 Voltage Park merged with Lightning AI to form a combined training and inference platform, with former Voltage Park CEO Ozan Kaya becoming President of the merged entity. The company describes a roughly $1 billion long-term capital foundation and has begun international expansion, including a November 2025 vision-AI factory partnership with JBK Group and Matrice.ai in Qatar.

Verified record

Verified deployments
None on file
Active incidents
None on file

Key facts

Headquarters

Undisclosed

Status

private

Type

brain

GPU inventory

~36,000 NVIDIA GPUs across Hopper (H100), Blackwell (B200), and Grace Blackwell (GB200) generations; originally 24,000 H100s at 2023 launch

Announced hourly pricing

H100 on-demand starting at $1.99/GPU-hour; dedicated reserve on 12+ month contracts (rate not disclosed)

Datacenter footprint

6 Tier 3+ colocation facilities across 4 US states; specific sites not publicly disclosed

Cluster fabric

InfiniBand-connected H100 clusters available in increments up to 8,176 GPUs (Dell PowerEdge XE9680 servers)

Named customers

Cursor, Prime Intellect, Imbue, Luma AI, Covariant, Phind, Dream3D, Caltech, plus 20+ others

Silicon and infra partners

NVIDIA (reference NVIDIA Cloud Partner, Nov 2025), Dell, Penguin Solutions, Vast Data

Capital base

Roughly $1 billion long-term capital foundation; originally launched with ~$500M GPU purchase funded by Navigation Fund (Jed McCaleb)

Lightning AI merger

Merged with Lightning AI in January 2026; former Voltage Park CEO Ozan Kaya became President of Lightning AI

Ownership structure

Private; originally launched as a nonprofit-adjacent initiative of Navigation Fund, the family office of Ripple/Stellar co-founder Jed McCaleb

International expansion

Nov 2025 partnership with JBK Group and Matrice.ai to deploy vision AI factories in Qatar

Positioning

Both training and inference; targets AI research labs, startups, and universities priced out of hyperscalers, rather than hyperscale anchor tenants

GPU fleet (verified)

~24,000 NVIDIA H100 (~35,000+ combined post-Lightning merger)

Power capacity (live)

~60 MW (six US sites)

Primary accelerator

NVIDIA H100 (B200 / GB300 added)

Data & sources

Web sources

4

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Partnerships

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

2 total2 operating

Most-frequent partners

  1. 1AWS1× joint976 total
  2. 2NVIDIA1× joint1114 total

Most recent

Relationships

NNVIDIATechnology partnerAAWSTechnology partner

Current leadership (4)

  • Ozan Kaya Former CEO of Voltage Park; President of Lightning AI post-mergerreported, not verified
  • Saurabh Giri Chief Product & Technology Officerreported, not verified
  • Frank Basso VP Infrastructurereported, not verified
  • Jed McCaleb Founder / principal backer via Navigation Fundreported, not verified

Safety record

No incidents on record for Voltage Park.

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Voltage Park on the data-center map

Every verified data center Voltage Park operates that has a mapped coordinate (8 total). Filled circles are Tier-2 facilities and Tier-1 campuses under this operator; click any pin to open its record.

Voltage Park data centers (10)

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

Recent coverage

Voltage Park in third-party press

Exclusive: Anvil Robotics Raises $5.5M to Build ‘Legos for Robots’ Platform For Physical AI Teams - Crunchbase News

Apr 2, 2026

Penguin Solutions Selected as Managed Services Partner for Voltage Park’s NVIDIA Clusters - HPCwire

Jul 11, 2024

New nonprofit backed by crypto billionaire scores AI chips worth $500M - techcrunch.com

Oct 31, 2023