Austin Data Center GPU support capacity
Company: Core Scientific - Project: Austin Data Center (ASDC)
The claim, verbatim
500 MW HPC infrastructure has capability of supporting approximately 300,000 Blackwell GPUs
Source (primary)
Core Scientific, Inc. Investor and Analyst Event June 12, 2024 Transcript (IR page (investors.corescientific.com), earnings_call)
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Quote: “On the operation side, 1.2 gigawatts of infrastructure--contracted infrastructure, 500 megawatts we have allocated to HPC just for a rough order mag--magnitude mass, just so people can sort of translate what that means in GPUs? It's about--roughly around 300,000 Blackwell GPUs”
How we checked this
Checked on October 10, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The COO says the 500 MW allocated to HPC can support roughly 300,000 Blackwell GPUs; this figure refers to the whole HPC allocation, not the Austin Data Center.
Confirmed in the source:
- The 500 megawatts allocated to HPC could support roughly 300,000 Blackwell GPUs
What we did: Read our cached copy of IR page (investors.corescientific.com) (https://d1io3yog0oux5.cloudfront.net/_eb9c314ac28438fbd39d12d91c4e5bdc/corescientific/db/1066/11128/pdf/June_2024_Investor_Day_Transcript_061224.pdf) in full (94,603 characters, retrieved September 1, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Core Scientific, Inc. Investor and Analyst Event June 12, 2024 Transcript
Quote: “On the operation side, 1.2 gigawatts of infrastructure--contracted infrastructure, 500 megawatts we have allocated to HPC just for a rough order mag--magnitude mass, just so people can sort of translate what that means in GPUs? It's about--roughly around 300,000 Blackwell GPUs”