Crusoe AI puts energy first to power sustainable AI infrastructure at scale
For Crusoe AI, sustainable AI infrastructure has always been the founding premise, a welcome alternative amidst a surge of antipathy for data centers in local communities.
The company takes a vertically integrated, energy-first approach to building AI infrastructure, sourcing power and deploying managed AI services on top, according to Omar Lari (pictured), senior director of infrastructure as a service at Crusoe AI. This method has enabled deployments in locations that are far from traditional (wind and natural gas in Abilene, Texas, or geothermal and hydroelectric in Iceland), as well as a partnership with Redwood Materials, powering thousands of Blackwell GPUs with recycled EV batteries.
“Crusoe’s mission is to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence,” Lari said. “Energy is going to drive the next breakthroughs in AI. AI will eventually help us make the next breakthroughs in energy.”
Lari spoke with theCUBE’s Christophe Bertrand and Alison Kosik at Pure Accelerate 2026, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how Crusoe’s energy-first strategy differentiates its sustainable AI infrastructure offering and what enterprises need to prioritize as they scale AI workloads. (* Disclosure below.)
