Market strategists debated whether AI data center demand remains strong after reports pressured infrastructure-linked shares.

CoreWeave's landmark capital raise in a matter of days highlights the aggressive financing strategies fueling the AI infrastructure buildout in 2026.

CoreWeave announced a multi-year agreement to supply Anthropic with cloud computing capacity for its Claude AI models, sending CoreWeave shares up 11%.

Meta Platforms has expanded its partnership with CoreWeave, committing an additional $21 billion for AI computing capacity through 2032.

AI cloud firm CoreWeave has raised $8.5B in a GPU-backed loan facility supported by a Meta deal, funding a major expansion of its compute capacity.