ORGANIZATION AND DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2024

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

ORGANIZATION AND DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

1. ORGANIZATION AND DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

Core Scientific, Inc. (“Core Scientific” or the “Company”) is an operator of dedicated, purpose-built facilities for digital asset mining and a premier provider of digital infrastructure, software solutions and services to our third-party customers. The Company currently focuses primarily on digital asset mining. We employ our own large fleet of computers (“miners”) to earn digital assets for our own account and provide hosting services for large customers at our seven operational data centers in Georgia (2), Kentucky (1), North Carolina (1), North Dakota (1) and Texas (2). We derive the majority of our revenue from earning bitcoin for our own account (“self-mining”).

We operate in two segments: “Mining,” consisting of digital asset mining for our own account, and “Hosting,” consisting of our digital infrastructure and third-party hosting business for digital asset mining and specialized Graphics Processing Unit (“GPU”) cloud compute customers.

Our hosting business provides a full suite of services to our digital asset mining and GPU cloud compute customers. We provide deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, optimization and maintenance of our customers’ digital asset mining equipment and provide necessary electrical power, repair and other infrastructure services necessary for our customers to operate, maintain and efficiently mine digital assets and offer specialized cloud services, as applicable.

We believe our experience in digital asset mining can be applied favorably to the design, development and operation of large-scale data centers configured to optimize the performance of specialized computers for other specific, high-value applications such as cloud computing, machine learning and artificial intelligence. We intend to look for opportunities to expand our business into these areas using our knowledge, experience and existing infrastructure where favorable market opportunities exist.

Chapter 11 Filing and Emergence from Bankruptcy

On December 21, 2022, the Company and certain of its affiliates (collectively, the “Debtors”) filed voluntary petitions (the “Chapter 11 Cases”) in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas (the “Bankruptcy Court”) seeking relief under Chapter 11 of the United States Code (the “Bankruptcy Code”). The Chapter 11 Cases were jointly administered under Case No. 22-90341. The Debtors continued to operate their business and manage their properties as “debtors-in-possession” (“DIP”) under the jurisdiction of the Bankruptcy Court and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Bankruptcy Code and orders of the Bankruptcy Court. For detailed discussion about the Chapter 11 Cases, refer to Note 3 — Chapter 11 Filing and Emergence from Bankruptcy.

On January 15, 2024, the Debtors filed the Fourth Amended Joint Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization of Core Scientific, Inc. and its Debtor Affiliates (with Technical Modifications) (the “Plan of Reorganization”) with the Bankruptcy Court. On January 16, 2024, the Bankruptcy Court entered an order (the “Confirmation Order”) among other things, confirming the Plan of Reorganization. On January 23, 2024 (the “Effective Date”), the conditions to the effectiveness of the Plan of Reorganization were satisfied or waived and the Company emerged from bankruptcy.

The Company was not required to apply fresh start accounting based on the provisions of Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 852, Reorganizations, since the entity’s reorganization value immediately before the date of confirmation is more than the total of all its post-petition liabilities and allowed claims.