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Chase Lochmiller

Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board, Crusoe

Search every verified Chase Lochmiller interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Chase Lochmiller, co-founder and CEO of Crusoe, has recently discussed the company's $3.9 billion Series F funding round, which valued the AI infrastructure firm at $30.9 billion. In media appearances, he described Crusoe's business as spanning data centers, GPUs, and tokens, and emphasized an "energy first" approach to computing, referencing the company's name origin from Robinson Crusoe. He stated that the data center industry faces a "marketing issue," arguing that narratives about water usage and energy costs are often inaccurate, and cited examples of community benefits such as tax revenue increases in Abilene, Texas, and Armstrong County, Texas. Lochmiller also addressed public concerns about living near data centers, saying he would live near one and comparing them to warehouses. He noted that operational data centers have limited noise and highlighted long-term community investments, including property tax abatements in Columbia County, Georgia. On energy, he expressed support for nuclear power as a critical future energy source and discussed the industry's challenges in scaling power production for AI infrastructure.

Recent appearances

  • Crusoe CEO: Why Everyone Gets GPU Depreciation & AI Energy Costs Wrong

    October 03, 2026 · 📺 20VC with Harry Stebbings

    Chase Lochmiller is the Co-founder and CEO of Crusoe. Crusoe builds and powers the data centres that companies use to train and run AI. It has raised approximately $6.4 billion in equity, including its latest $3.9 billion Series F at a $30.9 billion valuation. Its backers include NVIDIA, Founders Fund, Gavin Baker's Atreides Management, Mubadala Capital and Valor Equity Partners. ----------------------------------------------- Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:06 How Mountaineering Shaped Chase as a Founder 06:44 Why Having Money Can Make Founders Take Bigger Risks 09:54 How Crusoe Went From Bitco…

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  • ‘Would You Live Near a Data Center?’

    September 21, 2026 · 📺 The Atlantic

    Charlie Warzel asks Chase Lochmiller, the CEO and a co-founder of the AI-infrastructure company Crusoe, his thoughts on living near data centers. See the full conversation:

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  • Crusoe CEO: Data Center Indusry Has a 'Marketing Issue’

    September 18, 2026 · 📺 Bloomberg Tech

    Crusoe CEO Chase Lochmiller discusses the AI infrastructure company's nearly $4 billion in fresh funding sending its valuation to ...

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  • Paramount Bounces, Snap Specs, AI Affirmations, Chase Lochmiller Joins, Joe Weisenthal IRL

    September 17, 2026 · 📺 TBPN

    00:02:34:25 Snap officially launches Specs 00:27:18:12 Paramount scouts offices in Nashville 00:30:25:01 Reacting to new clip from 'The Social Reckoning' 00:41:00:03 Japan’s monks turn to investing 00:55:51:23 Aaref Hilaly discusses Bain Capital Ventures’ post-AGI investment strategy, arguing that abundant intelligence will unlock transformative opportunities in robotics, drug discovery, simulation, and AI applications. A partner at Bain Capital Ventures, he also explains the firm’s $1.6 billion fund, its early-stage focus, and its approach of backing ambitious founders while connecting them w…

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  • Powering AI: The New Nuclear Era | Dreamforce 2026

    September 16, 2026 · 📺 Salesforce

    The AI infrastructure buildout is driving a nuclear renaissance. Crusoe CEO Chase Lochmiller and Aalo Atomics CEO Matt Loszak discuss how quickly nuclear energy can scale and how it could help power the future of AI. Learn more about Agentforce: https://www.salesforce.com/agentforce/ Check out our guide on artificial intelligence (AI): https://www.salesforce.com/artificial... Lead the energy transition with Agentforce Energy & Utilities: https://www.salesforce.com/energy-uti... Timestamps [00:00] Powering AI: The New Nuclear Energy Era [00:23] Introducing All Atomics and Crusoe Infrastructur…

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  • Crusoe's Energy-First Vision for the AI Cloud | Chase Lochmiller | RAISE Summit 2026

    July 17, 2026 · 📺 RAISE Summit

    Chase Lochmiller, Co-Founder & CEO of Crusoe, joins RAISE co-founder Henri Delahaye to explain why the AI cloud has to start with energy — and how Crusoe is building AI infrastructure around power first, silicon second. Recorded live on the Master Stage at the Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, on July 9, 2026. Livestream powered by Cursor. RAISE Summit is Europe's leading AI gathering, bringing together 9,000+ founders, executives, investors, researchers and policymakers. Learn more: https://www.raisesummit.com Subscribe for every session from RAISE Summit 2026.

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  • The Compute 100: Chase Lochmiller, CEO of Crusoe

    July 09, 2026 · 📺 The Compute 100

    Today's guest is Chase Lochmiller, co-founder and CEO of Crusoe. While climbing mountains with his best friend turned co-founder, Chase first learned about gas flares — spots around the world where energy was virtually free. In 2018, the vision was clear: co-locate small data centers next to these flares, mine bitcoin, and scale. But while Crusoe grew its mining business, Chase's core long-term motivation was a side project — using low-cost, clean energy to power compute for AI. Fast forward to 2026: Crusoe is worth over $10B, has sold its bitcoin business, and is building one of the largest…

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  • Chase Lochmiller, Crusoe | RAISE Summit 2026

    July 09, 2026 · 📺 SiliconANGLE theCUBE

    In this interview from RAISE Summit 2026 in Paris, Chase Lochmiller, chief executive officer and co-founder of Crusoe Energy Systems, joins theCUBE's John Furrier to discuss how AI factories are redefining the economics of large-scale compute infrastructure. Lochmiller describes the shift toward data center-scale computers that convert electricity into intelligence, noting how rack power density has jumped from a few kilowatts to more than 130 kilowatts, with a megawatt per rack on the horizon. He details Crusoe's rapid expansion, including 5 gigawatts of contracted capacity and more than 40 g…

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  • Stanford MS&E435 Economics of the AI Supercycle | Spring 2026 | Building AI Factories

    June 17, 2026 · 📺 Stanford Online

    For more information about Stanford’s graduate programs, visit: https://online.stanford.edu/graduate-... This seminar covers infrastructure and building AI factories at gigawatt scale. Follow along with the course schedule: https://mse435.stanford.edu/ Guest Speaker: Chase Lochmiller, Crusoe Instructor: Apoorv Agrawal is a Stanford Adjunct Lecturer in Management Science and Engineering and a partner at Altimeter Capital. Playlist:    • MS&E435 | Spring 2026  

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  • Chase Lochmiller, Crusoe, Co-Founder & CEO on AI Infrastructure

    May 29, 2026 · 📺 Grace Gong

    Chase Lochmiller is Co-Founder, CEO & Chairman of Crusoe, building AI compute infrastructure with 300+ team across engineering, manufacturing, and operations while raising $600M+ from venture/project/credit investors—after General Partner at Polychain Capital, Quantitative Trader at Jump Trading, and Managing Director of Algorithmic Trading at KCG Holdings; serial quant trader-turned-founder scaling mission-critical compute platforms for AI workloads with playbook for capital-intensive deep tech at hyperscale. Previously Chase was a quantitative researcher and trader at Jump Trading and GETCO,…

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  • Building the Backbone: Energy, Compute, and the Future of Infrastructure

    April 24, 2026 · 📺 Imagination in Action

    The physical bottleneck behind AI's exponential growth — who builds the power plants, the data centers, and the compute fabric the frontier depends on? Dave Blundin (moderator), Chase Lochmiller, Jeremy Kepner, Libby Wayman ====== ✌️ Subscribe! http://bit.ly/ImaginationInAction-You... 👉 More info: https://www.imaginationinaction.co/ 🐦 Join the conversation! #ImaginationInAction ====== Leading in an Intelligent World On April 10th, 225 speakers across 6 stages joined Imagination in Action at MIT Media Lab to explore how intelligence is built, deployed, governed, and directed toward the…

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  • Chase Lochmiller, CEO of Crusoe, in Conversation With Claudine Emeott | Salesforce Ventures

    April 20, 2026 · 📺 Salesforce Ventures

    Chase Lochmiller is the co-founder and CEO of Crusoe, where he's helped build a team of more than 300 professionals focused on creating an energy-first approach to AI infrastructure. Previously Chase was a quantitative researcher and trader at Jump Trading and GETCO, where he developed and managed a portfolio of algorithmic trading strategies. Chase holds undergraduate degrees in math and physics from MIT and a masters degree in computer science from Stanford, where he specialized in artificial intelligence. Chase sat down with Claudine Emeott to discuss Crusoe's journey to date, lessons l…

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Verified interview transcripts

Notable quotes

“The data has shown that energy prices actually come down. It's actually the opposite of the narrative that's being told. So what is a legitimate concern? Anytime there is a big construction project, it does cause other aspects, right? There's benefits. There's people with money in town that are spending and you know if you talk to any local business owner in Abilene, times have never been better, right? The amount of”

“From a job creation perspective, these can be transformative for these communities. And from a tax revenue perspective, they can also be transformative as well. You look at a market like Abilene, it will be about a third of the total tax base in Abilene and Taylor County. And we're more than doubling the annual receipts for the local school system. And another area where we're building in Texas, a large campus is Arm”

“More than anything, the data center industry has sort of a marketing issue. We are seeing a lot of information that's just, frankly, not accurate. I think that the benefits that we provide the communities and the partnership that we take, when we're building in those communities, is not always being properly communicated. So I think the water narrative, for instance, is a great example of this where there's this narr”

“The philosophy of the business from day one was taking this energy first approach to computing. We named the company Crusoe after the character Robinson Crusoe who was stranded on a desert island and had to be innovative with his resources in a stranded environment. We try to channel that same sense of innovation applied towards stranded energy and unlock stranded energy, unlocking value in stranded energy with compu”

“The electrons are flowing and they're turning into tokens and helping accelerate this new era of AI abundance. As demand for AI infrastructure has grown and demand for power has grown, there's been a significant amount of investment in real world power production capabilities and facilities that are becoming real significant bottlenecks towards this buildout. Each incremental gigawatt is getting increasingly more cha”

“We view nuclear as a critical pillar of future energy needs. I would say it's not like a single dependency for us, but it's definitely something we're cheering for. We really hope nuclear energy is successful and we can help bring on many gigawatts of capacity. And while Matt's initial reactors are 10 megawatts, I know he has ambitions to do a lot of those, which actually works well with the way we think about poweri”

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