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Can CoreWeave escape the landlord tax?

CoreWeave is signing impressive deals with hyperscalers; whether that revenue flows through to shareholders or landlords remains an open question

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Dave Friedman
Sep 30, 2025
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This past August, I wrote a fairly negative piece about CoreWeave. More recently, short seller Kerrisdale Capital released a jeremiad against the company. (I continue to hold no position in CoreWeave.) And, today CoreWeave announced a multibillion dollar partnership with Meta. Its stock popped.

Celebrations were had.

So what’s going on?

My main criticism a…

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