** Shares of Core Scientific CORZ.O up 0.3% at $20.95 in volatile premarket trading
** CORZ plans to expand its Pecos, Texas campus to 1.5 gigawatts of gross power, or about 1 GW of leasable power
** Earlier this year, CORZ began transforming its Pecos campus, where 300 megawatts of gross power capacity is currently used for bitcoin mining, into a data center campus for AI infrastructure
** Co says it has secured an additional 300 megawatts of gross power capacity under contract with its utility provider and secured more than 200 acres of land
** As of last close, stock was up ~43% this year
(Reporting by Jaspreet Singh in Bengaluru)
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