Volta launches, announces $10B deal

The Utility
of Compute.

Volta is the category-defining, fully vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform – from capital to clusters to software – under a founder-led enterprise. We make AI compute dependable, plentiful, and available to every organization that needs it.

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AI compute is now as essential as electricity. Volta is delivering compute just like a utility.

Long lead times. Rationed allocation. Unpredictable pricing. Only hyperscalers and investment-grade companies can secure dedicated capacity the way real-world infrastructure gets financed – everyone else, even the best-funded AI labs in the world, competes for what’s left. It's not a technology problem. It's a financing problem. Volta was founded to change that.

The category-defining, 
fully vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform.

Where conventional AI infrastructure providers depend on third-party capital and rent the layers they cannot build, Volta controls the entire stack – from institutional capital through powered land, data centers, compute, software, and operations – under one founder-led enterprise. The result is compute that works like a utility: dependable, plentiful, built to endure, and delivering Pricing Superiority.

Capital – institutional grade

A $5B AI Infrastructure Program sponsored by Azora, senior project debt priced at infrastructure rates, and a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz. Volta owns its capital stack rather than renting it – and that blended cost flows straight into customer pricing.

Power – secured, not sourced

Over 1GW of near-term capacity, generated behind the meter through modular on-site power. No grid queue, no permitting delays – power held as an asset, not bought as a commodity.

Data centers – self-built & strategic partners

Gigascale campuses Volta builds from the ground up, engineered for extreme GPU density and direct liquid cooling.

Compute – true dedicated hardware

NVIDIA Vera Rubin systems on InfiniBand or RoCE networks, delivered how the customer wants. A 100,000+ GPU pipeline, provisioned through automation targeting 100% where the industry sits nearer 90%.

Software – owned, not licensed

The provisioning, orchestration, and automation that run every factory are Volta's own software – built in-house, not licensed. It's what makes fully automated compute delivery possible and avoids manual hand-offs.

Operations – accountable owner

Because Volta controls every layer, one team develops, finances, and operates each factory end to end. No vendor finger-pointing, no split accountability – compute that stays up and stays priced like the utility it is.

$10Bn
AI Factory
133MW
Power contracted
NVIDIA Vera Rubin
Latest generation systems

Need AI infrastructure built for scale?

Volta builds and operates AI factories for frontier AI labs and AI-native scale-ups alike – purpose-built compute infrastructure, financed and operated like the utility it actually is.

Explore AI factories

The infrastructure capital model, applied to AI compute.

Senior project debt, priced at infrastructure rates. A $5B AI Infrastructure Program. Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz. If you want to invest in the infrastructure layer of the AI era, we’d like to talk.

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Work on the most exciting opportunity of our age.

Build what's never been built. Automating GPU cluster deployment at gigawatt scale, on NVIDIA's newest hardware, across data centers we design and operate ourselves. If that's the kind of problem you want, we're hiring.

Join our mission

It’s day one. The launch scale behind compute that works like a utility.

$10Bn
AI factory
With more factories to come
$5Bn
AI Infrastructure program
Long-horizon capital, backed by Azora
4-7%
Blended cost of capital
Infrastructure-grade debt pricing, not venture or high-yield rates
1GW+
Contracted power
Secured at launch, multiple gigawatts by 2030
100K+
GPU pipeline
Deploying across gigascale AI Factory campuses
100+
People
Across three offices, growing fast

Same GPUs.
Completely different business.

Structurally lower 
cost of capital.

Volta controls its own capital stack – not just better financing terms, but ownership of the capital itself. Senior project debt priced at infrastructure rates – not venture or high-yield rates. Our own $5B AI Infrastructure Program. That blended cost of capital flows directly into your pricing.

The complete stack.

  • Powered land – power secured on-site, not promised later
  • Data centers – self-built and owned, our default model
  • Compute – dedicated clusters, fully automated
  • Operations – single accountable owner, end to end

Built by people who've done this before.

This isn't first time execution for the Volta team. Institutional-scale capital deployment by finance veterans. World-recognized AI technical and operations leaders advancing platform technology that has already been proven to scale. Their experience enables Volta to operate with speed, dependability, and efficiency.

Compute should be a utility. Not a bottleneck.

The companies building tomorrow’s AI shouldn’t be lining up for capacity, financing their own substations, or stitching together half-integrated stacks. Volta delivers compute the way electricity should arrive – predictably, abundantly, and ready when you need it.

Built for this moment.

Volta is a founder-led AI infrastructure company with offices in Palo Alto, London, and New York. We combine institutional capital, powered land, data centers, compute, software, and operations under one platform – developing, financing, and operating AI factories at global scale.

Our mission is The Utility of Compute. AI infrastructure that is as dependable, plentiful, and available as electricity – for every organization that needs it.

Read about our leaders

Ricard Boada

Co-founder and CEO, former SVP at large cap management firm investing in global AI infrastructure.

Sofia Gumuzio

Co-founder heading strategic development, former senior investor at large cap asset management firm, Azora and Dragados, underwriting deals end to end.

Patrick McGregor

Head of product and the AI platform, former chief product officer at Crusoe, many years of experience across Google AI and Google Cloud.

Raimund Riedl

Head of finance and capital formation with over a decade at Citi, leading its global data center investment banking practice, hundreds of billions advised across M&A and financings.

Paul Henry

Head of delivery, former head of Google's EMEA data center delivery, 3GW and $50bn deployed, COO at Los Alamos and UK DE&S.

Tristan Helmich

Head of engineering and AI infrastructure, former CTO of Genesis Cloud, where he built Europe's first production-scale AI cloud.

Jason Adler

Head of capital markets and structured finance, over a decade at J.P. Morgan building its AI infrastructure financing business, former private credit portfolio manager.

Pere Minguell

Head of strategic finance and asset management, former investor at Vantage Infrastructure and board director of two regulated utilities, earlier in infrastructure banking at Société Générale.

Lorraine Hartill

Head of people and talent, built CoreWeave's European organization from zero to more than 200 across nine countries, former people leader at Pure Storage and Dell EMC.

Nikkos Baksh

Head of technical program management, over 25 years leading strategy, finance and product across Cisco, Verizon and Raytheon Technologies.

Dominic Lalli

Head of accounting and financial control, over two decades in technology finance, former director of global accounting at SHI International, chartered accountant trained at Deloitte.

Sama Rahman

Head of structuring and strategic transactions, former capital markets lawyer at Nscale and Milbank, advising on over $50bn of digital infrastructure and power financings.

John Wilson

Head of global data center delivery, former delivery leader at Google and Amazon across data centers and subsea cable, began as an officer in the British Army's Royal Engineers.

Ramzi Charif

Head of data center operations, over 25 years across EMEA, former VP operations at VIRTUS Data Centers and senior data center and cloud infrastructure leader at AWS.

Bora Çetinkaya

Head of data center design, two decades delivering hyperscale data centers across EMEA at Vantage, Google, NTT and Arup, with design leadership for Equinix and Digital Realty.

Brian Bulfin

Head of full-stack delivery for AI Factories, former leader of Google's EMEA data center and ML capacity at gigawatt scale, earlier five years at Meta.

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Joining the team now means early-stage ownership with institutional-stage resources.

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