NeoCloud Power Score: Top 10 AI and HPC Operators
CRWV
1
CoreWeave
84.7
IREN
2
Iris Energy
79.6
NBIS
3
Nebius
70.2
BTDR
4
Bitdeer
65.6
CLSK
5
Cleanspark
65.4
HUT
6
Hut 8 Corp
64.2
MARA
7
Marathon Digital
60.2
WULF
8
TeraWulf
59.6
CIFR
9
Cipher Digital
54.9
HIVE
10
HIVE Digital
47.9
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The NeoCloud Power Score grades 23 public operators across eight inputs: seven weighted components plus a flat NVIDIA Exemplar Certification bonus. The weighted components are Deal Quality (25%), Energized Scale (15%), Business Model (15%), GPU Delivery (10%), GPU Scale (10%), Operational Risk (10%), and Utilization (5%). NVIDIA Exemplar Certification adds a flat +5-point bonus.
Each component is scored on a 0–100 basis. Energized Scale and GPU Scale are percentile ranks within the 23-company cohort. GPU Delivery measures GPUs operating relative to GPU goal, while Utilization measures the percentage of capacity occupied. Operational Risk maps LOW / MED / HIGH to 100 / 60 / 25, and Business Model maps Operator / Hybrid / Landlord to 100 / 60 / 30. Deal Quality — the heaviest single weight — is an analyst-assigned 0–10 score reflecting the quality and stage of contracted AI/HPC business, scaled to the 0–100 range.
When data is unavailable for a component, that component is excluded and the remaining weights are renormalized. NPS is an absolute score, not a curved ranking or valuation signal. Because no operator leads on every component, the practical ceiling is approximately 80; a score around 70 represents a strong result.
CoreWeave leads the cohort on GPU scale and runs a pure operator model, but it does not lead everywhere — Bitdeer carries more energized capacity, and IREN, Hut 8 and Cipher all score higher on deal quality. CoreWeave, IREN and Nebius are the only three operators in the cohort carrying NVIDIA Exemplar certification.
Full methodology and component detail are shown above and update automatically. Archive: NeoCloud Power Score: Bitcoin Miners and AI Clouds Ranked — August 2026 — an earlier edition using the previous methodology.

