Core Scientific, Inc./tx

1. ORGANIZATION AND DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

Core Scientific, Inc. (“Core Scientific” or the “Company”) is a leader in designing, building and operating large-scale, purpose-built data centers for HDC services. The Company develops and operates facilities serving AI and HPC related workloads and is a premier provider of digital infrastructure. Historically, the Company focused on digital asset mining for its own account and providing hosting solutions for third-party digital asset miners. In 2024, the Company announced its first HDC contract with CoreWeave, a provider of HPC services. In July 2026, the Company announced its second HDC contract with AMD and a Neocloud counterparty, further establishing the Company's strategic shift to its current HDC business. The majority of the Company's revenue is derived from HDC services.

As of September 30, 2026, the Company had a portfolio of 11 facilities in Alabama (1), Georgia (2), Kentucky (1), North Carolina (1), North Dakota (1), Oklahoma (1), and Texas (4).

Core Scientific operates inthree reportable segments: “Colocation,” consisting of providing HDC services to customers employing AI and HPC related workloads; “Digital Asset Self-Mining,” consisting of performing digital asset mining for its own account; and “Digital Asset Hosted Mining,” consisting of providing hosting services to third parties for digital asset mining.

The Company’s Colocation segment provides space, power, cooling, facilities operations, security and other services to third-party colocation customers to support workloads for machine learning and AI. Colocation segment revenue is concentrated with a single customer; see Note 14 — Segment Reporting.

The Digital Asset Self-Mining segment performs digital asset mining for the Company’s own account and generates revenue from operating owned infrastructure and computer equipment as part of mining pools in exchange for digital assets.

The Company’s Digital Asset Hosted Mining segment provides a full suite of services to digital asset mining customers. The Company provides deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, optimization and maintenance of customers’ digital asset mining equipment and provides necessary electrical power, repair and other infrastructure services necessary for customers to operate, maintain and efficiently mine digital assets.