{"id":1852,"date":"2024-10-30T03:01:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T03:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=1852"},"modified":"2024-10-30T03:01:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T03:01:33","slug":"peter-thiels-founders-fund-leads-500m-fundraise-in-waste-gas-powered-ai-cloud-start-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=1852","title":{"rendered":"Peter Thiel&#8217;s Founders Fund Leads $500M Fundraise In Waste Gas-Powered AI Cloud Start-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Crusoe Energy<\/strong>, a data center startup, has secured a $500 million equity investment led by <strong>Peter Thiel<\/strong>\u2018s <strong>Founders Fund<\/strong> to expand its artificial intelligence infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: The investment round values Crusoe at approximately $3 billion, more than double its valuation two years ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/dbda689a-d3a7-4441-8dec-93042ca619a9\">reported<\/a> the Financial Times on Tuesday, citing people with knowledge of the deal. <\/p>\n<p>The company, founded by <strong>Chase Lochmiller<\/strong> and <strong>Cully Cavness<\/strong> in 2018, is among the fast-growing \u201cneocloud\u201d industry that provides outsourced cloud computing for other tech companies to build AI.<\/p>\n<p>The neocloud industry has been attracting significant financial backing from Silicon Valley and Wall Street investors to fund the acquisition of <strong>NVIDIA Corp<\/strong>\u2018s (NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" ...><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/10\/41616040\/peter-thiels-founders-fund-leads-500m-fundraise-in-waste-gas-powered-ai-cloud-start-up\" alt=\"Peter\" thiel founders fund leads fundraise in waste gas-powered ai cloud start-up>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crusoe Energy, a data center startup, has secured a $500 million equity investment led by Peter Thiel\u2018s Founders Fund to expand its artificial intelligence infrastructure. What Happened: The investment round values Crusoe at approximately $3 billion, more than double its valuation two years ago, reported the Financial Times on Tuesday, citing people with knowledge of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-1852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}