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Dec 2025Fluidstack relocated its global headquarters from the UK to New York City while expanding US investment.
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Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 5, 2026
Overview
Fluidstack is an Oxford-founded AI cloud and infrastructure company that builds, owns, and operates large-scale GPU infrastructure and custom data centers for frontier AI labs and enterprises. It says it can deliver gigawatt-scale compute substantially faster than conventional data-center timelines and manages more than 100,000 GPUs.
Primary product
Managed AI cloud / GPU supercomputing platform plus bespoke, vertically integrated AI data centers for model training and inference.
Founded
2017
Headquarters
New York City, New York, United States
Team size
Approximately 150–200; third-party estimates range from about 198 to 268 in 2026 and should be treated as directional.
Work style
Onsite
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
AI cloud, GPU infrastructure, high-performance computing, and data centers
Offices
New York City, New York, United States (global headquarters)
San Francisco, California, United States
Business model
GPU cloud rental for training and inference
Managed/private cloud deployments
Long-term dedicated compute and data-center partnerships
Data-center design, financing, construction, and operations
GPU infrastructure financing / hosting arrangements
Funding
Stage
Series A publicly announced; additional 2026 financing reports and databases are inconsistent, and a prospective $1B round at an $18B valuation was reported but not confirmed.
Latest round
Series A
Latest amount
$830M
Jan 2026 · Situational Awareness
Jan 2024
People & investors
Leadership
Co-founder and CEO
Co-founder and President
Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer
Rob Perdue
Chief Operating Officer
Work & culture
Mission-driven, highly technical, fast-paced, and strongly execution-oriented. Public recruiting materials emphasize speed, scale, talent density, ownership, AI-native internal tooling, and a stated goal of building infrastructure that helps AI expand human freedom. Many infrastructure roles are explicitly onsite.
Work style
Onsite
Compensation
Public US postings commonly advertise cash plus equity, with examples of $184,000–$276,000 for a Compensation Manager and $208,000–$269,000 for software/GPU infrastructure engineering roles. Levels.fyi reported a $225,000 median software-engineer total compensation figure as of July 19, 2026; third-party/self-reported data.
Benefits
Competitive salary plus equity
Health, dental, and vision insurance
Retirement or pension plan according to local norms
Generous paid time off
US job postings disclose base-pay ranges
Product & market
Pricing
Public product pages emphasize zero setup fees and zero egress fees, with infrastructure generally sold through on-demand GPU usage, reserved capacity, and custom private/dedicated deployments; exact public rate card not located.
Differentiators
- —Vertically integrated acquisition of power, data-center design/build, and operations
- —Reported ability to deploy gigawatt-scale capacity in months rather than typical 18–24 month timelines
- —Dedicated infrastructure optimized for frontier AI training and inference
- —Large managed GPU fleet and rapid multi-thousand-GPU deployment
- —24/7 engineering support and isolated network/storage environments
- —Long-term custom facilities for major AI labs
Technology
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
Approximately $50M–$100M annually; one third-party report cited $66.2M revenue in 2024. Treat as an estimate, not company-reported current revenue.
Signals & risks
Other
Apr 2026Bloomberg and TechCrunch reported that Fluidstack was in talks for approximately $1B at an $18B valuation, potentially involving Jane Street and Situational Awareness; the transaction was prospective and not confirmed in the sources reviewed.
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Jan 2026Latest news
Fluidstack · Jul 2026
Fluidstack announced an $830M Series A raised in January 2026 at a $7.5B valuation, led by Situational Awareness.
TechCrunch · Apr 2026
Reported prospective financing discussions involving approximately $1B and an $18B target valuation; not confirmed as closed.
Fluidstack · Dec 2025
The company announced New York City as its global headquarters amid US infrastructure expansion.
Fluidstack · Nov 2025
Fluidstack announced a major partnership to deliver custom US data centers for Anthropic’s AI workloads.
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