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AI Utility

AI-native cloud / GPU-as-a-service operators.

0.600avg corr (252d)
7stocks
Strong co-movement

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  • BRUN
    $6.09last
    - fib

    Sells AI compute as a metered utility (GPU hours, managed clusters) to enterprises building on top of it.

    anchored by Cohere ($525.6M over about five years, acceptance from Q2 2027) · Undisclosed customer ($207.6M, 240 GPU servers from 2026-11-30) · Undisclosed customer ($222.5M over 48 months, 1,536 NVIDIA B300 GPUs from March 2027)
    • 2023 : Boost Run founded in Northbrook, Illinois; builds GPU-cloud infrastructure for enterprise AI and HPC
    • 2026-04-15 : software license and support agreement, $100M payable in five annual installments from October 2026 (vendor not named in the 10-Q)
    • 2026-04-17 : partnership agreement with minimum purchase commitments of about $1.44B over five years ($578M in year 1, $215.5M in each of years 2 to 5); reported at listing as the GPU procurement agreement with $DELL
    • 2026-05-08 : de-SPAC with Willow Lane Acquisition Corp closes; net proceeds about $114.1M; bridge and related-party loans repaid
    • 2026-05-11 : trading begins on Nasdaq as BRUN
    • 2026-06-08 : GPU rental agreement, about $207.6M for the initial term, 240 GPU servers from 2026-11-30 ($19.0M prepaid); amended 2026-06-27 to add 18 CPU nodes and about 6.27 PB of NVMe storage
    • 2026-07-09 : order form, about $222.5M over 48 months (plus a one-year option worth about $30.6M), 192 servers with 1,536 NVIDIA B300 GPUs from March 2027
    • 2026-07-16 : Rock Island, Illinois lease, 6.5 MW total load, 60 months
    • 2026-07-21 : public warrants called for redemption on 2026-08-20; warrants removed from Nasdaq after the call (Form 25, 2026-08-25)
    • 2026-08-13 : Pryor, Oklahoma data center lease, 144 months from 2026-12-15
    • Q2 2026 (to 2026-06-30) : revenue $31.1M (Q2 2025: $8.4M); operating loss $12.9M; net loss $75.0M including a $55.7M deferred tax charge; cash $120.2M plus $13.0M restricted; finance lease liabilities $238.1M; customer deposits $128.4M (10-Q filed 2026-08-18)
    • 2026-08-18 : Q1 10-Q amended: disclosure controls not effective, three material weaknesses (IT general controls, segregation of duties, finance and accounting staffing); Q1 and Q2 reports both filed after an NT 10-Q
    • 2026-08-19 : resale registration of 58.7M Class A shares and 4.0M private warrants by selling holders (424B3)
    • 2026-08-27 and 2026-09-14 : Sean Goodrich sells 198,200 shares at $20.15 and 500,000 shares at $14.00 (Form 4); no open-market insider purchases on file
    • 2026-09-29 : RSU grants of 2.89M (CFO), 1.40M (CTO) and 0.30M (COO) shares, plus a $1M cash award to the COO (8-K filed 2026-10-05)
    • 2026-09-30 : Cohere service agreement, about $525.6M over about five years per rack, acceptance from Q2 2027; Cohere may terminate and recover prepayments if a minimum is not accepted by 2027-07-15 (8-K filed 2026-10-06)
    • Share count : 49,954,423 Class A and 29,533,018 Class B shares per the 10-Q cover (2026-08-17)
  • CIFR
    $6.54last
    $17.00fib
    $6.9B backlog600 MWanchored by Fluidstack · GOOGL · AWS
    • Barber Lake: 300 MW fully contracted with Fluidstack
    • Google backstops $1.4B with ~5% equity stake
    • Separate AWS $5.5B 15-year deal for another 300 MW
  • CRWV
    $46.40last
    $96.00fib
    $103.7B backloganchored by OpenAI · META · Anthropic
    • $103.7B of remaining performance obligations (contracted backlog) at June 30, 2026: 41% expected to be recognized within 24 months, 39% in months 25 to 48, the rest in months 49 to 78 (10-Q filed 2026-08-12)
    • Anchor customers: OpenAI, Meta and Anthropic
    • Debt: $35.6B of principal outstanding at June 30, 2026 (recourse $31.4B and non-recourse $3.7B, net of costs), including $6.6B of convertible notes due 2031 and 2032; operating lease liabilities $16.3B (same 10-Q)
  • IREN
    $21.64last
    $43.00fib
    $10B backlog2.9 GWanchored by MSFT
    • $MSFT AI cloud contract: $9.7B, ~5 years, NVIDIA GB300 at Childress in four 50 MW phases (Horizon 1-4), 20% prepayment, ~$1.9B expected annual run-rate (announced 2025-11)
    • Frontier AI lab: multi-year GPU cloud contract, customer and value undisclosed (2026-08)
    • Mirantis: all-share acquisition closed 2026-08 (~$625M), cloud orchestration software and ~580 staff
    • GPU financing: $3.6B investment-grade debt at ~6.0% for the Microsoft build; $2.4B facility at 9.0% for Mackenzie (2026-08)
    • Sites: Childress 750 MW and Sweetwater 1 (1,400 MW) + 2 (600 MW) in Texas; Canal Flats, Prince George, Mackenzie in BC (~160 MW)
    • FY2026 (to 2026-06-30): revenue $707.0M (AI cloud $128.8M, mining $578.2M); ~$4B contracted annual run-rate for 2026 capacity (release 2026-08-27)
  • NBIS
    $129.49last
    $113.00fib
    $46B backloganchored by MSFT · META · NVDA
    • ~$46B contracted backlog
    • ~$19B Microsoft deal
    • ~$27B Meta partnership through 2032
    • $2B equity check from NVDA
  • Sells AI compute as a metered, contracted service (GPU capacity and managed infrastructure) to AI labs and platforms.

    132 MWanchored by ESDS Software Solution Limited ($1.26B services arrangement, signed Q1 2026) · Global technology company, Asia-Pacific (about $950M over five years, May 2026) · Global AI laboratory (about $1.32B over five years, revenue from Q1-Q2 2027) · Global AI platform (about $373M over five years, revenue from Q1 2027)
    • 2025-12 : de-SPAC with Roth CH Acquisition closes; the company becomes SharonAI Holdings (Nasdaq: SHAZ)
    • Q1 2026 : $1.26B customer services arrangement with ESDS Software Solution Limited; about $720M of expected capex (10-Q, Note 20)
    • 2026-05 : about $950M, five-year contract with a global technology company in Asia-Pacific; about $400M of hardware, about 20% deposit paid (10-Q, Note 20)
    • 2026-05 : $350M 6.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2031
    • 2026-06 : $700M 4.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2032
    • 2026-06 : six-year AI infrastructure compute collaboration with NVIDIA, about $4B of committed hardware procurement (10-Q, Note 20)
    • 2026-06-30 : cash and equivalents $1.86B; convertible notes carried at $1.0065B (10-Q)
    • Q2 2026 : revenue $1.93M (Q2 2025: $0.38M), gross profit $1.17M, operating loss $24.8M, net loss $430.4M including a $400.4M change in fair value of convertible notes (10-Q)
    • After 2026-06-30 (subsequent events in the 10-Q) : about $1.32B five-year contract with a global AI laboratory (New Zealand, revenue from Q1-Q2 2027, about $765M of commitments) and about $373M five-year contract with a global AI platform (2,048 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra B300 GPUs, revenue from Q1 2027, about $217M of commitments)
    • Capacity : about 132 MW of AI-factory capacity, about 116 MW contracted; 15 MW with GreenSquareDC (ready-for-service target 2026-09-26, 120-month term); 72 MW with NEXTDC (about $623M, five phases April to August 2027); 14 MW in New Zealand
    • 2026-09-23 : Ernst & Young engaged as auditor for fiscal 2026, replacing HoganTaylor (8-K filed 2026-09-24)
    • 2026-09-28 : syndicated facility for up to $356M senior secured term loans (Facility A up to $150M at 7.25% rising to 9.95%, Facility B up to $206M at 9.95%), 42-month bullet maturity, 18-month make-whole; non-recourse to the parent once Facility A is repaid (8-K filed 2026-10-01)
    • Share count : 35,667,164 Class A and 136,341 Class B shares per the 10-Q cover (2026-08-05)
  • VST
    $124.80last
    $140.00fib
    50.0 GWanchored by Meta · Helix Digital Infrastructure (KKR / NVIDIA / KIA) · Hyperscalers (undisclosed)
    • 2026-01-09 - 20-year PPAs with Meta for 2,609 MW of carbon-free nuclear from the PJM fleet: 1,268 MW Perry and 908 MW Davis-Besse operating (2,176 MW), plus uprates of 213 MW Perry, 80 MW Davis-Besse and 140 MW Beaver Valley (433 MW)
    • Delivery schedule - part of the operating volume from late 2026, full operating delivery by year-end 2027; uprate volumes from 2031, full by year-end 2034. Largest nuclear uprates supported by a corporate customer in the US
    • 2026-06-11 - Helix Digital Infrastructure launched by KKR with the Kuwait Investment Authority and NVIDIA, more than $10B of long-duration capital commitments, led by former AWS CEO Adam Selipsky. Vistra named preferred power provider
    • Cogentrix acquisition - 10 gas-fired plants, about 5.5 GW, $4B, lifting the portfolio toward ~50 GW across 18 states
    • Nuclear fleet - 6,448 MW: Comanche Peak (TX) plus the four former Energy Harbor reactors (Perry, Davis-Besse, Beaver Valley 1 and 2) in OH and PA. Second-largest competitive nuclear fleet in the US
    • Retail - TXU Energy and Dynegy serve about 5M customers, matching wholesale length against a retail book
    • Q2 2026 (reported 2026-08-07) - adjusted EBITDA $1.767B, up 30% year over year; FY2026 guidance reaffirmed at $6.8B to $7.6B adjusted EBITDA

Co-movement matrix (252d)

BRUN
CIFR
CRWV
IREN
NBIS
SHAZ
VST
BRUN·0.660.770.700.790.730.45
CIFR0.66·0.640.820.630.510.49
CRWV0.770.64·0.690.820.550.37
IREN0.700.820.69·0.670.530.41
NBIS0.790.630.820.67·0.590.38
SHAZ0.730.510.550.530.59·0.41
VST0.450.490.370.410.380.41·

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Frequently asked questions

What are the top stocks in the AI Utility theme?
QuantAbundance's AI Utility theme tracks 7 stocks ranked editorially: BRUN, CIFR, CRWV, IREN, NBIS, SHAZ, VST.
Do AI Utility stocks move together?
The AI Utility theme has a 252-day average correlation of 0.60 across its members - strong co-movement. Editorial themes are narrative groupings, not capital-flow validated; tradability follows correlation, not the story.
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