AI start-up Poolside has held talks with Google and other cloud providers to revive a large Texas data centre project after a deal with CoreWeave collapsed and a $2bn funding round anchored by Nvidia fell apart.
The search for new partners comes just months after Poolside announced plans for Horizon, an ambitious 2-gigawatt complex that CoreWeave would fill with tens of thousands of Nvidia’s latest Blackwell AI chips.
The partnership began to falter late last year, according to five people familiar with the matter. Poolside was unable to bring the first cluster of chips online in time to meet CoreWeave’s deadline, prompting the pair to end their contract, they added.