Crusoe joins the ranks of Google, Nvidia, Adidas, Walmart, and more
DENVER, March 24, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Crusoe, the AI factory company, is proud to have been named to Fast Company’s prestigious list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2026. The company was named to the number three spot in the Computing category. Alongside the World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies, Fast Company recognizes 720 honorees across 59 sectors and regions.
“Powering the next era of human progress requires us to rethink the entire stack – from the energy source to the data centers to the cloud services,” said Chase Lochmiller, CEO and co-founder of Crusoe. “Being recognized by Fast Company validates our strategy of building the ‘AI factories’ of the future. By vertically integrating energy production, purpose-built physical infrastructure, and our high-performance AI Cloud, we are providing the essential foundation for the AI revolution.”
Crusoe’s vertically integrated model – combining innovative energy sourcing, in-house manufacturing, data center construction, and an AI cloud platform – supports innovators to abstract away the complexity of the physical world and focus entirely on building the next generation of AI-driven breakthroughs.
Over the past 18 months, Crusoe has evolved from proving its model to executing at a monumental scale. In June 2024, the company broke ground on a 1.2-gigawatt AI campus in Abilene, Texas – one of the largest AI infrastructure developments in the United States. Within a year, the first two buildings were energized, a remarkable feat of speed for a project of this scale. Crusoe has secured a massive 45 gigawatt power pipeline to meet the global demand for AI compute. In addition, Crusoe recently announced the Spark Factory in Brighton, Colorado, a dedicated facility to manufacture Crusoe Spark modular AI factories. These units support customers across a variety of use cases including low-latency inference, on-premise deployments, sovereign AI, and grouped training clusters.
Crusoe’s physical infrastructure offerings are seamlessly paired with the Crusoe Cloud platform, which has undergone significant feature expansions to support frontier-scale model development. Beyond providing world-class GPU clusters, Crusoe recently introduced Managed Inference services, allowing developers to deploy and scale large language models with industry-leading efficiency and reduced latency.
The World’s Most Innovative Companies is Fast Company’s hallmark franchise and one of its most anticipated editorial efforts of the year. To determine honorees, Fast Company’s editors and writers review companies driving progress around the world and across industries, evaluating thousands of submissions through a competitive application process. The result is a globe-spanning guide to innovation today, from early-stage startups to some of the most valuable companies in the world.
