The report says AMD is serving as both tenant and credit backstop, while warrants for 30 million CORZ shares vest only if the deal scales to 2.5 GW.
Bernstein estimated Core Scientific's partnership with AMD at $14 billion over 15 years, framing the chipmaker as both the tenant and the credit backstop in the arrangement. The structure suggests AMD is not only taking capacity but also helping underpin the project's financing profile, an important factor for large data center and high-performance computing buildouts. The report also said AMD's warrants for 30 million CORZ shares vest only if the partnership expands to 2.5 GW (gigawatts, a measure of power capacity), tying the equity upside to execution and scale.