AndroGuider | One Stop For The Techy You!Crusoe Raises $3B at $30B Valuation After $13B Jane Street Dealhttps://ai4chat-files.s3.amazonaws.com/images/image_1788502644409.jpg TL;DR* Crusoe has raised $3B at a $30B valuation, a roughly 10x jump in under two years, driven by explosive demand for contracted AI data center capacity.* The round follows a reported $13 billion long-term contract with Jane Street, which gives Crusoe years of visible revenue and de-risks its hyperscale buildout.* With its energy-first, vertically integrated model and key role in projects like Stargate in Abilene, Texas, Crusoe is now positioning itself alongside CoreWeave and the major hyperscalers. From Flared Gas to Hyperscale PowerCrusoe started with a novel idea: turn stranded natural gas that would otherwise be flared into power for modular data centers for crypto mining. That energy-first DNA has now become its biggest advantage in the AI era.As Big Tech and AI labs scramble for power, not just chips, Crusoe's ability to source, build, and bring large-scale energy capacity online quickly has set it apart from traditional colocation providers. The company now designs, builds, and operates AI-optimized data centers from the power plant up, pairing large-scale campuses with its Crusoe Cloud platform.Investors are no longer valuing it as a niche bitcoin-to-AI convert. They are valuing it as next-generation infrastructure. The $3B Round at a GlanceThe new $3 billion raise catapults Crusoe into the top tier of private AI infrastructure companies. At a $30 billion valuation, it marks one of the largest private tech raises of 2026 and a stunning repricing from its roughly $2.8 billion valuation in late 2024.While the company has not disclosed every participant, existing backers including Founders Fund, Fidelity, Valor Equity Partners, and Blue Owl Capital have been central to its rise, alongside a growing mix of crossover funds, sovereign investors, and infrastructure capital.The structure reflects Crusoe's hybrid identity: part high-growth tech company, part infrastructure developer. The raise is expected to fund both corporate expansion and equity commitments for its massive data center pipeline, unlocking far larger amounts of debt financing for construction. Why Investors Piled InThree factors drove demand for the round: contracted revenue, power access, and scarcity.First, AI compute has shifted from speculative to contracted. Unlike 2023 and 2024, when neoclouds raised on GPU purchase orders and waitlists, 2026 investors want to see 10- to 15-year, investment-grade cash flows. Crusoe now has them.Second, power is the new moat. With grid interconnection queues stretching five to seven years in key U.S. markets, Crusoe's ability to deliver gigawatts of purpose-built capacity in Texas and other energy-rich states is extremely difficult to replicate.Third, there are very few pure-play ways to bet on AI data centers at scale. With CoreWeave already public and Lambda, Nebius, and Applied Digital scaling fast, Crusoe offered late-stage investors one of the last large private entry points before a potential IPO. Inside the Reported $13B Jane Street DealThe catalyst for the repricing is a reported $13 billion long-term agreement with global trading giant Jane Street.While full terms have not been made public, reports describe a multi-year commitment for dedicated AI data center capacity to power Jane Street's quantitative research, machine learning models, and low-latency trading infrastructure. For a firm where milliseconds translate to billions, securing guaranteed, high-density, liquid-cooled capacity with redundant power is strategic, not just operational.For Crusoe, the implications are enormous. A single $13 billion contract provides long-term revenue visibility that underpins billions in project-level[...]