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Manraj Bains

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17 September 2026

By Manraj Bains/Compute, Trading

Hardware doesn't make money

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CoreWeave has not funded a dollar of its GPUs from operations

A case study of the largest GPU rental business: what it earns, what it owes, and what the credit market is really pricing.

17 September 2026/Note

CoreWeave borrows through separate SPVs, each holding chips plus one customer contract.

CoreWeave borrows through separate SPVs, each holding chips plus one customer contract. DDTL 4.0, $8.5B in March 2026, priced at SOFR plus 225bps and rated A3 because it sits on a $14.2B Meta contract, so lenders are really underwriting Meta. DDTL 5.0, $3.1B in May, SOFR plus 450bps, rated Ba2, on...

17 September 2026/Note

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