Oct 14, 2025 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji
AI startup Poolside is teaming up with CoreWeave for the development of a 2GW data center in West Texas. Dubbed Project Horizon, CoreWeave will be the anchor tenant for the first phase of the project, which alone will offer 250MW of power capacity under a 15-year lease, expandable to 500MW.
“Poolside’s approach to foundation models represents exactly the kind of breakthrough work the CoreWeave platform was designed to accelerate,” said Michael Intrator, co-founder, chairman, and CEO of CoreWeave. “Together, we’re building the performance layer that will define how AI research becomes real-world capability.”
“To compete at the frontier you need to be vertically integrated from dirt to intelligence,” said Eiso Kant, co-founder and co-CEO of Poolside. “This partnership with CoreWeave ensures immediate access to next-generation silicon, enabling us to train multi-trillion parameter models with large-scale reinforcement learning. With this secured, we can now demonstrate our compounding research, engineering, and data advantages.”
