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CoreWeave (CRWV) Q2 Earnings: 3 Must-Know Numbers for this Nvidia Partner
Key Points CoreWeave is growing at an incredible pace, with revenue jumping 200% year over year. The company has a more than $30 billion backlog of revenue as it spends heavily on capex. Its business model relies on large amounts of high-interest debt to grow, making this a risky stock. 10 stocks we like better than CoreWeave › Spending on artificial intelligence (AI) data centers is staggering. This year, just four companies are on track to spend more than $350 billion and are set to spend at least $400 billion in 2026. To put that into perspective, adjusted for inflation, the entire Apollo program -- which put humans on the Moon -- spent less than $300 billion over 10 years. CoreWeave (NASDAQ: CRWV) is right in the middle of this data center boom, buying Nvidia's top chips and renting them out to companies like Microsoft. The opportunity here is massive, but so is the risk, as the company continues to fuel its growth with debt. 1. CoreWeave has a $30.1 billion backlog The company fills the substantial gap that exists between demand for AI computing power and current supply. It's what has led CoreWeave's top line to explode, up more than 200% year over year as of its second-quarter report. The jump from under $400 million in Q2 2024 to more than $1.21 billion in Q2 2025 is incredible, but can it continue? The $30.1 billion in backlog sure makes it seem so, at least for the foreseeable future. That's $30.1 billion in sales lined up so long as the company follows through on its commitments and can build out the capacity needed to fill those orders. There's a wrinkle here, however. While the $30.1 billion is a significant increase from last quarter's $25.9 billion, the company had already announced a $4 billion deal with OpenAI in its last earnings that accounted for the bulk of the quarter-over-quarter jump. CoreWeave only booked $1.4 billion in new contracts this quarter -- not as much as might have been expected. 2. CoreWeave spent a record $2.9 billion in capex The company spent $2.9 billion in capital expenditures (capex) in Q2, the bulk of which went toward purchasing Nvidia's hyper-advanced data center chips as it tries to meet the demand. Management has to make sure that it spends cash now to have chips available when customers need it; as best it can, it needs to anticipate demand, but it doesn't want to overspend if it can avoid it -- these chips aren't cheap. That makes capex a useful indicator of where the company thinks that demand will be in the future. And while a record-setting capex would seem at first blush to mean all is good, the $2.9 billion was actually lower than Wall Street expected and could indicate demand is not as strong as hoped. 3. CoreWeave's debt continues to grow, topping $11 billion In order to scale at its lightning-fast pace, the company is making use of debt -- a lot of it. In Q2, the company's total debt reached more than $11 billion, and analysts believe it could add another $10 billion by year-end. Just to service the interest on this debt, the company paid nearly $270 million in the second quarter. That's extremely high. In fact, CoreWeave paid more than 13 times its operating income just to cover the interest on its debt. And if it indeed adds another $10 billion to its debt load before 2025 is done, that multiple could be even worse. And while many companies effectively leverage debt to scale, the assets the company is buying with this debt don't have that long a useful life. These aren't loans for a gas pipeline that will last decades. These are high-interest loans for chips with shelf lives of a few years. CoreWeave is riding the edge CoreWeave's growth is built on too rocky a foundation for my taste. While the blistering pace and massive backlog are reassuring in the near term, there are already some cracks. But relying on high-interest debt to play the middleman in AI doesn't seem like a long-term winning strategy to me. There will likely come a time when the Microsofts of the world prefer to cut out the middle man and drive down their own margins. And even if that doesn't happen, if AI demand cools even slightly, CoreWeave could be left out to dry, given its reliance on high-interest debt. I would avoid CoreWeave stock. Do the experts think CoreWeave is a buy right now? The Motley Fool's expert analyst team, drawing on years of investing experience and deep analysis of thousands of stocks, leverages our proprietary Moneyball AI investing database to uncover top opportunities. They've just revealed their to buy now — did CoreWeave make the list? 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CBS News
08-08-2025
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- CBS News
Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, dies at age 97
Jim Lovell, the astronaut who commanded the famous Apollo 13 mission, has died, NASA announced Friday. He was 97. This is a breaking news story. Check back for updates.
The Guardian
03-08-2025
- The Guardian
Deep impact: touring central Australia's cosmic craters
'You didn't mention camping on Mars.' My wife had a point: thin air, thinner soil, extreme UV, rocks straight from a Nasa red-planet image, jagged ranges – all ideal backdrops for a movie set. No wonder the place was considered for training by the Apollo program. Its sparse life forms include an intimidating shrub whose thorns mimic the stingers on the scorpions that come out after dark. A harsh, forbidding place, but beautiful too. We made shade with our camper awning and waited for magic time: the desert at dusk. Travelling along the Stuart Highway it's easy to miss the Henbury Meteorites conservation reserve, 12km off the tarmac along a rough track one and a half hours south of Alice Springs. We'd seen samples of its space rock in the excellent display at the Museum of Central Australia in Alice and were keen to see where they fell. There are six known impact sites in the territory and the two most accessible are Henbury and Tnorala (Gosse Bluff). We visited both during Victoria's fifth Covid lockdown in 2021. Henbury is a site where a nickel-iron meteor about the size of a garden shed disintegrated before striking the land to carve out over a dozen impact craters, just 4,500 years ago – so recently that the site has significant cultural meaning as a sorry place for the Luritja people, whose sacred songs and oral histories tell of this devastating event. Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning Scientific models suggest the meteorites hit Earth at 40,000km/h in an explosion akin to the Hiroshima blast. The site's 12 craters are best viewed when the sunlight's low angle reveals the smaller, heavily eroded examples. Among the youngest of Earth's known impact sites, Henbury's pits have been scoured by wind and rare deluges down the Finke River flood plain. Extreme temperatures do the rest. The largest crater is 180m across, the smallest the size of a back-yard spa. The explosion sprayed out tonnes of pulverised rock in a distinctive rayed pattern still visible around Crater No 3 – the only known terrestrial example. Temptingly, specimens of the actual meteorite hurled out may still be found. The 45kg chunk in the Museum of Central Australia is one example of 680kg collected so far, though digging or damaging the site without a permit is illegal. We don't find any meteorite fragments but we leave with memories of a humming sunrise and night with a billion almost touchable stars. From Tylers Pass lookout, two hours west along the Namatjira Drive from Alice Springs, Tnorala (Gosse Bluff) appears as a mountain range thrusting incongruously from the endless western plains. In fact, these peaks were created in seconds when an object up to 1km wide hit the Earth at about 250,000km/h, 142m years ago, with an explosive force at least 20 times more powerful than all the world's nuclear weapons. No trace of that object has been found, so it was probably an icy comet that vaporised on impact. Erosion has since reduced the crater from its original 22km diameter. Satellite images uncannily resemble a staring eye under a sunburnt brow. Specimens in the Museum of Central Australia show that early Cretaceous central Australia was wetter and cooler than it is now, with abundant dinosaurs. Locally, they would have been vaporised, and anything living within 100km killed by the massive shock wave and extreme heat. The sound of the explosion probably travelled around the world. The Tnorala bolide event was a prelude to the big one, Chicxulub on Mexico's Yucatán peninsula, which wiped out the dinosaurs 77m years later. Sign up to Saved for Later Catch up on the fun stuff with Guardian Australia's culture and lifestyle rundown of pop culture, trends and tips after newsletter promotion In their oral traditions, Western Arrernte people understand Tnorala as a cosmic impact site. A group of star woman were dancing in a corroboree in the Milky Way when one woman placed her baby in a turna (wooden cradle). The dancing shook the galaxy and the turna slipped, with the baby falling to Earth as a blazing star, striking the ground to create the crater's distinctive bowl shape. These days 'awesome' is a word debased by glib use. It's apt driving into the 5km-wide Tnorala crater, surrounded by cliffs 180 metres high, formed in a blink by a literally Earth-shattering event as our planet's crust rebounded to form the crater's inner ring. The rock strata in these peaks show that some were lifted from a depth of 4km by incredible explosive force and are now inverted. It's not just awareness of this ancient violence that marks Tnorala as a sorry place. Local information boards describe it as a pre-colonial massacre site. So it's doubly proper that camping is forbidden. It's an unwelcoming place, where an object large enough to be classified as a city-killer fell from the sky. This kind of comet is now thankfully detectable by telescopes such as the new Vera C Rubin observatory in Chile, and also proven as feasible they could be steered off course. So forget Mars. Cancel that ticket. Instead, visit awesome central Australia – where the mountains are upside down, the stars greet your fingertips and the dawns are so silent you can hear the sun sing. The Museum of Central Australia is hosting a Henbury Meteorite reserve discovery day on 10 August as part of National Science week. Henbury: Day trips to the Henbury Meteorites conservation reserve require a Northern Territory parks pass and the site can be reached by 2WD vehicles, however 4WDs are recommended. The reserve's basic facilities include picnic shelters and a drop toilet. Water and firewood are not available. Campsites must be booked online through Northern Territory Parks and fees apply. The nearest food and fuel supplies are available 85km south at the Erldunda Roadhouse on the Stuart Highway. Tnorala (Gosse Bluff): The Tnorala crater is accessible via a sandy track and offers picnic shelters and a drop toilet. Camping is not permitted in the reserve due to its status as a registered sacred site of the Western Arrernte people. Fuel and food is available at Hermannsburg, 62km east on the Namatjira Way. Travel beyond Tnorala is by 4WD only and requires a Mereenie Tour pass. Many of these roads may be impassable in wet weather. Associate Prof Duane Hamacher assisted with factchecking for this story
The Guardian
02-08-2025
- Science
- The Guardian
Deep impact: touring central Australia's cosmic craters
'You didn't mention camping on Mars.' My wife had a point: thin air, thinner soil, extreme UV, rocks straight from a Nasa red-planet image, jagged ranges – all ideal backdrops for a movie set. No wonder the place was considered for training by the Apollo program. Its sparse life forms include an intimidating shrub whose thorns mimic the stingers on the scorpions that come out after dark. A harsh, forbidding place, but beautiful too. We made shade with our camper awning and waited for magic time: the desert at dusk. Travelling along the Stuart Highway it's easy to miss the Henbury Meteorites conservation reserve, 12km off the tarmac along a rough track 1.5 hours south of Alice Springs. We'd seen samples of its space rock in the excellent display at the Museum of Central Australia in Alice and were keen to see where they fell. There are six known impact sites in the Territory and the two most accessible are Henbury and Tnorala (Gosse Bluff). We visited both during Victoria's fifth Covid lockdown in 2021. Henbury is a site where a nickel-iron meteor about the size of a garden shed disintegrated before striking the land to carve out over a dozen impact craters, just 4,500 years ago – so recently that the site has significant cultural meaning as a sorry place for the Luritja people, whose sacred songs and oral histories tell of this devastating event. Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning Scientific models suggest the meteorites hit Earth at 40,000km/h in an explosion akin to the Hiroshima blast. The site's 12 craters are best viewed when the sunlight's low angle reveals the smaller, heavily eroded examples. Though among the youngest of Earth's known impact sites, Henbury's pits have been scoured by wind and rare deluges down the Finke River flood plain. Extreme temperatures do the rest. The largest crater is 180m across, the smallest the size of a back yard spa. The explosion sprayed out tonnes of pulverised rock in a distinctive rayed pattern still visible around Crater No.3 – the only known terrestrial example. Temptingly, specimens of the actual meteorite hurled out with this ejecta may still be found. The 45kg chunk in the Museum of Central Australia is one example of 680kg collected so far, though digging or damaging the site without a permit is illegal. We don't find any meteorite fragments, but we leave with memories of a humming sunrise and night with a billion almost touchable stars. From Tylers Pass lookout, two hours west along the Namatjira Drive from Alice Springs, Tnorala (Gosse Bluff) appears as a mountain range thrusting incongruously from the endless western plains. In fact, these peaks were created in seconds when an object up to 1km wide hit the Earth at around 250,000km/h, 142m years ago, with an explosive force at least 20 times more powerful than all the world's nuclear weapons. No trace of that object has been found, so it was likely an icy comet that vaporised on impact. Erosion has since reduced the crater from its original 22km diameter. Satellite images uncannily resemble a staring eye under a sunburnt brow. Specimens in the Museum of Central Australia show that early Cretaceous central Australia was wetter and cooler than it is now, with abundant dinosaurs. Locally, they would have been vaporised, and anything living within 100km killed by the massive shock wave and extreme heat. The sound of the explosion likely travelled around the world. The Tnorala bolide event was a prelude to the big one, Chicxulub on Mexico's Yucatán peninsula, which wiped out the dinosaurs 77m years later. Sign up to Saved for Later Catch up on the fun stuff with Guardian Australia's culture and lifestyle rundown of pop culture, trends and tips after newsletter promotion In their oral traditions, Western Arrernte people understand Tnorala as a cosmic impact site. A group of star woman were dancing in a corroboree in the Milky Way when one woman placed her baby in a turna (wooden cradle). The dancing shook the galaxy and the turna slipped, with the baby falling to Earth as a blazing star, striking the ground to create the crater's distinctive bowl shape. These days 'awesome' is a word debased by glib use. It's apt driving into the 5km-wide Tnorala crater, surrounded by cliffs 180 metres high, formed in a blink by a literally Earth-shattering event as our planet's crust rebounded to form the crater's inner ring. The rock strata in these peaks show that some were lifted from a depth of 4km by incredible explosive force, and are now inverted. It's not just awareness of this ancient violence that marks Tnorala as a sorry place. Local information boards describe it as a pre-colonial massacre site. So it's doubly proper that camping is forbidden. It's an unwelcoming place, where an object large enough to be classified as a city-killer fell from the sky. This kind of comet is now thankfully detectable by telescopes such as the new Vera C Rubin observatory in Chile, and also proven as feasible to steer off course. So forget Mars. Cancel that ticket. Instead visit awesome central Australia – where the mountains are upside down, the stars greet your fingertips and the dawns are so silent you can hear the sun sing. The Museum of Central Australia is hosting a Henbury Meteorite reserve discovery day on 10 August as part of National Science week. Henbury: Day trips to the Henbury Meteorites conservation reserve require a Northern Territory parks pass and the site can be reached by 2WD vehicles, however 4WDs are recommended. The reserve's basic facilities include picnic shelters and a drop toilet. Water and firewood are not available. Campsites must be booked online through Northern Territory Parks and fees apply. The nearest food and fuel supplies are available 85km south at the Erldunda Roadhouse on the Stuart Highway. Tnorala (Gosse Bluff): The Tnorala crater is accessible via a sandy track and offers picnic shelters and a drop toilet. Camping is not permitted in the reserve due to its status as a registered sacred site of the Western Arrernte people. Fuel and food is available at Hermannsburg, 62km east on the Namatjira Way. Travel beyond Tnorala is by 4WD only and requires a Mereenie Tour pass. Many of these roads may be impassable in wet weather. Associate Prof Duane Hamacher assisted with fact-checking for this story
Indian Express
27-06-2025
- Science
- Indian Express
Top 5 costliest space missions launched from across the world
From the early moon landings of the 20th century to today's orbiting laboratories and interplanetary probes, each mission has pushed the boundaries along with the budgets. Often, these ambitious space missions carry staggering price tags, reflecting the complexity, scale, and pioneering nature of these ventures. Here are the five most expensive space missions ever launched: 1. International Space Station (ISS) — $150 billion The International Space Station is a multinational space station collaboration between the USA, Russia, Japan, Europe and Canada. This figure includes the contributions of various space agencies from around the world, including NASA, Roscosmos, ESA, JAXA, and CSA. The construction phase took over a decade, beginning in 1998 and concluding in 2011. The space station orbits roughly 250 miles above the Earth's surface and has been continuously inhabited since 2000. According to NASA reports, it was built at $150 billion and cost $3 billion a year — roughly a third of NASA's annual human space flight budget. The space station serves as a hub for scientific research. Orbiting Earth every 90 minutes, the ISS is also a critical testbed for long-duration spaceflight, shaping our understanding of how the human body adapts to space. 2. Space Shuttle Program — $113 billion NASA's Space Shuttle program was the United States' fourth human spaceflight initiative. It relied on reusable spacecraft to carry astronauts and cargo to and from Earth orbit. Over its 30-year run, the program completed 135 missions—beginning with its first launch on April 12, 1981, and concluding with its final landing on July 21, 2011. The five space shuttle fleet—Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour — launched satellites, were instrumental in various missions including the Hubble Space Telescope, and played a central role in building the ISS. According to NASA's website, the life of the shuttle program cost $113.7 billion. 3. The Apollo Program — $25 billion The Apollo Program was born out of the Cold War and US President John F Kennedy's promise to land a man on the Moon — becoming one of the most ambitious missions in human history. As per BBC reports, the total estimated cost of the Apollo programme came to around $25.8 billion. Apollo was a three-part spacecraft — the command module (CM), service module (SM) and the lunar module (LM), according to NASA's website. From 1961 to 1972, NASA developed the Saturn V rocket and a suite of spacecraft that successfully carried astronauts to the lunar surface six times. The most iconic moment came in 1969, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took humanity's first steps on the moon. 4. Hubble Space Telescope — $16 billion The Hubble Space Telescope orbits just above Earth's atmosphere at an altitude of approximately 515 km. Hubble orbits at a speed of 27,000 kph and completes one orbit approximately every 95 minutes. Hubble gets clear images because it's above Earth's atmosphere, not because it travels or flies closer to cosmic objects. It continues to operate alongside its successor, the James Webb telescope. Hubble was launched in 1990 at an estimated cost of 16 billion (adjusted for inflation to 2021 dollars). 5. James Webb Space Telescope — $10 billion Built at a cost of $10 billion, the James Webb Space Telescope is said to be the most powerful space observatory. The telescope was on Christmas Day in 2021. The Webb does not orbit around the Earth; however, it orbits the Sun 1.5 million kilometres (1 million miles) away from the Earth at what is called the second Lagrange point or L2.
