Theme
AI Utility
AI-native cloud / GPU-as-a-service operators.
0.600avg corr (252d)
7stocks
Strong co-movementStocks · key Fib levels
- 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−61.5%vs fib$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−51.7%vs fib$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−49.7%vs fib$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+14.6%vs fib$46B backloganchored by MSFT · META · NVDA
- ~$46B contracted backlog
- ~$19B Microsoft deal
- ~$27B Meta partnership through 2032
- $2B equity check from NVDA
- SHAZ$21.81last- fib
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−10.9%vs fib50.0 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 | · | 0.66 | 0.77 | 0.70 | 0.79 | 0.73 | 0.45 |
| CIFR | 0.66 | · | 0.64 | 0.82 | 0.63 | 0.51 | 0.49 |
| CRWV | 0.77 | 0.64 | · | 0.69 | 0.82 | 0.55 | 0.37 |
| IREN | 0.70 | 0.82 | 0.69 | · | 0.67 | 0.53 | 0.41 |
| NBIS | 0.79 | 0.63 | 0.82 | 0.67 | · | 0.59 | 0.38 |
| SHAZ | 0.73 | 0.51 | 0.55 | 0.53 | 0.59 | · | 0.41 |
| VST | 0.45 | 0.49 | 0.37 | 0.41 | 0.38 | 0.41 | · |
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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.