CoreWeave is expanding its Global AI Network into seven markets across Asia Pacific and the Middle East, while bringing most of its planned computing capacity at a Copenhagen data center online. The network points of presence are expected to begin coming online in the fourth quarter of 2026. CoreWeave said it expects the backbone to form a complete loop around the globe in mid-2027.
The expansion adds network locations in the United Arab Emirates, India, Indonesia, Singapore, Australia, South Korea and Japan. These points of presence connect over terrestrial and subsea fiber to a backbone that already links CoreWeave data centers across North America and Europe. Each location will have multiple 400Gbps connections on a unified optical IP network.
New links extend regional reach
CoreWeave says the new network locations are intended to connect its infrastructure across regions and provide routes between data centers. In Indonesia, the point of presence will connect three data center facilities that CoreWeave announced in August. In India, it will connect 240MW of data center capacity in Navi Mumbai.
The company describes the network as a petabit-scale backbone purpose-built for AI, but has not published its aggregate capacity, interregional latency or measured transfer rates. The 400Gbps figure refers to the connections at each point of presence, not a published end-to-end performance measurement.
CoreWeave says each point of presence connects to at least two others using four physically diverse paths. Each region is dual-homed to two points of presence, which the company says means no pair of regions relies on a single route. Such route diversity is designed to provide alternatives if a path is unavailable, though the announcement did not provide service-level or performance figures.
The backbone uses hardware-based MACsec encryption, specified by IEEE 802.1AE, at line rate. CoreWeave says it applies this protection to backbone links, Direct Connect traffic arriving from customer networks and traffic inside its data centers.
Copenhagen site adds Blackwell systems
In Denmark, CoreWeave has brought most of its planned 22.5MW of IT capacity online at atNorth’s DEN01 data center in Copenhagen. The deployment is CoreWeave’s first in Denmark. The company has not disclosed how much of the planned capacity remains to come online.
DEN01 runs NVIDIA Blackwell systems connected through NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand. The deployment brings CoreWeave’s European footprint to nine data centers across five countries: Denmark, the United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden and Norway.
The site also has a heat reuse agreement to send surplus heat into Copenhagen’s district heating network. atNorth says the facility supports renewable energy development through power purchase agreements. The announcement did not provide details on the amount of heat supplied or the energy covered by those agreements.
Active and contracted capacity differ
CoreWeave reported operating 51 data centers worldwide with more than 1.5GW of active power as of June 30, 2026. On its August 11, 2026 earnings call, it reported approximately 4.2GW of contracted power. Contracted power represents capacity secured for future buildouts; it is not the same as capacity already in operation.
CoreWeave Chief Operating Officer Sachin Jain said the company is expanding both its global infrastructure and the network connecting it, with the aim of letting customers focus on AI development rather than managing the underlying complexity. The planned international points of presence and Copenhagen deployment add network and compute locations to that expansion, while the company’s published figures leave aggregate backbone capacity and measured regional performance unspecified.
