Jan 26 (Reuters) - Nvidia has invested $2 billion in CoreWeave at a ​purchase price of $87.20 per share, the ‌companies said on Monday, as they expand their partnership to boost CoreWeave's data center build out ambitions.

Shares of CoreWeave jumped more than 10% ‌in premarket trading.

CoreWeave is targeting to ​build more than 5 gigawatts in AI data center capacity by 2030. The fresh ‍investment from Nvidia will help the AI infrastructure provider speed up procurement of the land and power ⁠required to build the facilities.

So-called "neoclouds" like ‍CoreWeave, which provide tech companies with the infrastructure needed ‌to ‌build, run and deploy AI technologies, have seen a surge in demand in recent years as enterprise adoption of AI picks ⁠up.

Nvidia was ⁠CoreWeave's third ​largest shareholder with a 6.3% stake, or 24.3 million shares, in the company.

It is now nearly ‍doubling its stake in Coreweave by adding roughly 23 million shares in the firm, becoming its second-largest ​investor now, according to ‍Reuters calculations based on data compiled by LSEG.