Roth Capital Partners believes Core Scientific looks more valuable as a potential deal with CoreWeave is in danger of falling apart. The investment firm upgraded shares to buy from neutral. Analyst Darren Aftahi also raised his 12-month price target to $23.50 from $17, implying a potential gain of 32%. Core Scientific is one of the largest owners and operators of digital infrastructure, allowing high-performance computing, or HPC, use cases like AI workloads and bitcoin mining. The company's data centers across six U.S. states have a total contracted power capacity of around 1.3GW. CORZ YTD mountain CORZ YTD chart Aftahi's upgrade comes after CoreWeave said it would not raise its acquisition price for Core Scientific and called it a "nice to have, not a need to have," lowering the chances
Core Scientific gets upgrade from Roth as CoreWeave deal becomes less likely

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