{"slug": "coreweave-secures-multi-year-ssd-supply-deal-with-solidigm-to-fuel-ai-cloud", "title": "CoreWeave secures multi-year SSD supply deal with Solidigm to fuel AI cloud expansion", "summary": "CoreWeave signed a multi-year agreement with Solidigm, the Intel-spun-off flash storage maker, guaranteeing priority access to solid-state drives as CoreWeave races to build out data centers fast enough to keep up with demand. The companies are co-engineering drives optimized for AI workloads, including native direct-to-chip liquid cooling for SSDs, addressing heat density from 122-terabyte drives. CoreWeave earlier secured an $11.9 billion commitment from OpenAI and a multi-year partnership with Perplexity, and acquired Core Scientific for approximately $9 billion.", "body_md": "Via 247wallst.com\n\n# CoreWeave secures multi-year SSD supply deal with Solidigm to fuel AI cloud expansion\n\nThe AI infrastructure giant locks in priority access to ultra-high-capacity solid-state drives as demand for GPU cloud services accelerates\n\nCoreWeave signed a multi-year agreement with Solidigm, the Intel-spun-off flash storage maker, guaranteeing priority access to solid-state drives as CoreWeave races to build out data centers fast enough to keep up with demand.\n\n## What the partnership actually looks like\n\nThis isn’t a fresh relationship. CoreWeave and Solidigm have been working together for years, deploying QLC (quad-level cell) SSDs across CoreWeave’s GPU infrastructure. Jacob Yundt, a CoreWeave executive, has previously described the partnership as “incredible” for data center effectiveness.\n\nThe two companies are now co-engineering drives specifically optimized for AI workloads. That includes native direct-to-chip liquid cooling for SSDs, a technology that addresses the heat density that increases when cramming 122-terabyte drives into GPU clusters.\n\nFor context, 122TB in a single drive is enormous. Most consumer SSDs top out around 4TB. Enterprise drives typically max out at 30TB or so.\n\n## Why storage is the quiet bottleneck in AI infrastructure\n\nQLC SSDs offer a compelling balance for AI workloads. They’re denser and cheaper per terabyte than other NAND flash architectures, which makes them well-suited for the read-heavy data pipelines that characterize AI training. The trade-off is typically lower write endurance, but for workloads that are mostly about reading massive datasets, that’s an acceptable compromise.\n\n## CoreWeave’s bigger picture\n\nEarlier in 2025, CoreWeave secured an $11.9 billion commitment from OpenAI. In March 2026, the company added a multi-year partnership with Perplexity. CoreWeave’s acquisition of Core Scientific for approximately $9 billion gave it access to substantial power capacity. Core Scientific was previously a Bitcoin mining operation, meaning CoreWeave essentially converted crypto mining infrastructure into AI compute capacity.\n\n**Disclosure:** This article was edited by Editorial Team. For more information on how we create and review content, see our\n\n[Editorial Policy](https://cryptobriefing.com/editorial-policy/).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/coreweave-secures-multi-year-ssd-supply-deal-with-solidigm-to-fuel-ai-cloud", "canonical_source": "https://cryptobriefing.com/coreweave-solidigm-ssd-supply-deal/", "published_at": "2026-08-05 12:16:16+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-05 12:39:58.172906+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure", "ai-products", "ai-research"], "entities": ["CoreWeave", "Solidigm", "Intel", "OpenAI", "Perplexity", "Core Scientific", "Jacob Yundt"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/coreweave-secures-multi-year-ssd-supply-deal-with-solidigm-to-fuel-ai-cloud", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/coreweave-secures-multi-year-ssd-supply-deal-with-solidigm-to-fuel-ai-cloud.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/coreweave-secures-multi-year-ssd-supply-deal-with-solidigm-to-fuel-ai-cloud.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/coreweave-secures-multi-year-ssd-supply-deal-with-solidigm-to-fuel-ai-cloud.jsonld"}}