Core Scientific Announces Fiscal First Quarter 2025 Results

First Quarter 2025 Highlights

   -- On track to deliver 250MW of billable capacity to CoreWeave by the end of 
      this year and anticipate entering 2026 with annualized colocation revenue 
      of approximately $360 million. 
 
   -- First tranche of 8MW of billable capacity at Denton to be delivered to 
      CoreWeave by the end of this month and an additional approximately 40MW 
      by the end of this quarter. 
 
   -- Ended the quarter with a strong liquidity position, including $778.6 
      million in cash and cash equivalents and digital assets, maintaining 
      financial flexibility to execute on strategic organic and inorganic 
      growth opportunities. 
AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 07, 2025-- 

Core Scientific, Inc. (NASDAQ: CORZ), a leader in digital infrastructure for high-density colocation services and digital asset mining, today announced financial results for the fiscal first quarter of 2025. Net income was $580.7 million, as compared to $210.7 million for the same period in 2024. Total revenue was $79.5 million, as compared to $179.3 million for the same period last year. Operating loss was $42.6 million, as compared to Operating income of $55.2 million for the same period in 2024. Adjusted EBITDA was $(6.1) million, as compared to $88.0 million for the same period in the prior year. First quarter net income of $580.7 million resulted primarily from a net $621.5 million non-cash mark-to-market adjustment in the value of our tranche 1 and tranche 2 warrants and other contingent value rights required as a result of the significant quarter-over-quarter decrease in our share price.

"This quarter marks an inflection point for Core Scientific. In a matter of months, we have transformed vision into execution, delivering infrastructure at scale and positioning ourselves at the center of one of the most important shifts in modern computing. The pace of demand for high-performance data infrastructure is accelerating, and our ability to move with speed and precision is setting us apart. We are not just expanding capacity; we are shaping the foundation for the next era of data center infrastructure," said Adam Sullivan, Core Scientific's Chief Executive Officer.

Fiscal First Quarter 2025 Financial Results (Compared to Fiscal First Quarter 2024)

Total revenue for the fiscal first quarter of 2025 was $79.5 million, consisting of $67.2 million in Digital asset self-mining revenue, $3.8 million in Digital asset hosted mining revenue and $8.6 million in Colocation (formerly "HPC hosting") revenue.

Digital asset self-mining gross profit for the fiscal first quarter of 2025 was $6.0 million (9% gross margin), compared to $68.4 million (46% gross margin) for the same period in the prior year, a decrease of $62.4 million. The decrease in Digital asset self-mining gross profit was primarily driven by a $82.8 million decrease in self-mining revenue, the result of a 75% decrease in bitcoin mined due to the halving and the operational shift to Colocation, partially offset by a 74% increase in the average price of bitcoin and a 33% decrease in power costs due to lower rates and usage.

Digital asset hosted mining gross profit for the fiscal first quarter of 2025 was $1.7 million (46% gross margin), as compared to $9.3 million (32% gross margin) for the same period in the prior year. The decrease in Digital asset hosted mining gross profit was primarily due to a $25.6 million decrease in hosted mining revenue driven by our operational shift to Colocation, partially offset by a 90% decrease in power costs due to lower usage driven by our operational shift to Colocation and lower rates.

Colocation gross profit for the fiscal first quarter of 2025 was $0.5 million (5% gross margin). Colocation revenue includes a base license fee as well as the direct pass-through of power costs to our client, with no margin added. Colocation costs at our Austin, Texas data center consist primarily of lease expense, the direct pass-through of power costs, and direct and indirect facilities operations expenses, including personnel and benefit costs and stock-based compensation. The non-GAAP gross margin for the fiscal first quarter of 2025, which excludes the direct pass-through of power costs, was 8%.

Selling, general and administrative expenses for the fiscal first quarter of 2025 totaled $40.1 million, as compared to $16.9 million for the same period in the prior year. The increase of $23.2 million was primarily attributable to a $13.9 million increase in stock-based compensation, a $7.2 million increase in non-capitalizable Colocation site startup costs, and a $2.5 million increase in personnel and related expenses due to increased employee headcount to support our transition to Colocation operations.

Net income for the fiscal first quarter of 2025 was $580.7 million, as compared to $210.7 million for the same period in the prior year. Net income for the fiscal first quarter of 2025 increased by $370.0 million driven primarily by a net $621.5 million mark-to-market adjustment on our warrants and other contingent value rights comprising a $634.3 million decrease in the fair value of warrant liabilities, partially offset by a $12.8 million increase in fair value of contingent value rights. These mark-to-market adjustments were driven by the decrease in our stock price during the fiscal first quarter of 2025. Also contributing to the increase in net income was a $16.3 million decrease in interest expense, net due primarily by an $8.7 million decrease in interest expense due to lower interest rates compared to the same period in the prior year, and a $7.9 million increase in proceeds from money market funds. These increases to net income were partially offset by $111.4 million of Reorganization items, net, reflecting the Company's emergence from bankruptcy during the first fiscal quarter of 2024, with no comparable activity in fiscal 2025 and a $99.8 million decrease in Total revenue, the result of a 75% decrease in bitcoin mined due to the halving and the operational shift to Colocation.

Non-GAAP Adjusted EBITDA for the fiscal first quarter 2025 was $(6.1) million, as compared to Non-GAAP Adjusted EBITDA of $88.0 million for the same period in the prior year. This $94.1 million decrease was driven by a $99.8 million decrease in total revenue, a $11.2 million decrease in the change in fair value of digital assets, and a $7.4 million increase in cash operating expenses, partially offset by a $21.4 million decrease in cash cost of revenue and a $3.0 million decrease in realized losses on energy derivatives.

CONFERENCE CALL AND LIVE WEBCAST

In conjunction with this release, Core Scientific, Inc. will host a conference call today, Wednesday, May 7, 2025, at 4:30 pm Eastern Time that will be webcast live. Adam Sullivan, Chief Executive Officer, Jim Nygaard, Chief Financial Officer and Jon Charbonneau, Vice President, Investor Relations, will host the call.

Investors may dial into the call by using the following telephone numbers: +1 (888) 428-7458 (U.S. toll free) or +1 (862) 298-0702 (U.S. local) five to ten minutes prior to the start time to allow for registration.

Investors with Internet access may listen to the live audio webcast via the Investor Relations page of the Core Scientific, Inc. website, http://investors.corescientific.com or by using the following link https://event.choruscall.com/mediaframe/webcast.html?webcastid=7cGzCf6F. Please allow 10 minutes prior to the call to download and install any necessary audio software. A replay of the audio webcast will be available for one year.

A supplementary investor presentation for the fiscal first quarter 2025 may be accessed at https://investors.corescientific.com/news-events/presentations.

AUDIO REPLAY

An audio replay of the event will be archived on the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at http://investors.corescientific.com and via telephone by dialing +1 (877) 660-6853 (U.S. toll free) or +1 (201) 612-7415 (U.S. local) and entering Access Code 13753188.

ABOUT CORE SCIENTIFIC

Core Scientific, Inc. ("Core Scientific" or the "Company") is a leader in digital infrastructure for high-density colocation services and digital asset mining. We operate dedicated, purpose-built facilities for digital asset mining and are a premier provider of digital infrastructure, software solutions and services to our third-party customers. We employ our own large fleet of computers ("miners") to earn digital assets for our own account and to provide hosting services for large digital asset mining customers and we are in the process of allocating and converting a significant portion of our ten facilities in Alabama (1), Georgia (2), Kentucky (1), North Carolina (1), North Dakota (1), Oklahoma (1) and Texas (3) to support artificial intelligence-related workloads under a series of contracts that entail the modification of certain of our data centers to deliver next generation colocation services. We derive the majority of our revenue from earning digital assets for our own account ("self-mining"). To learn more, visit www.corescientific.com.

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