CoreWeave's $29 Billion Bet That Its Debt-Fueled Data Center Boom Won’t Go Bust

A knack for creative financing and an enormous appetite for risk helped CoreWeave’s Michael Intrator ride the AI data center boom to a $6.7 billion personal fortune. But as bubble fears mount, his reliance on billions in debt to supply advanced chips to all the major AI players puts him in a powerful—and precarious—position.