Nvidia: V100 still runs CoreWeave customer workloads after a decade

On September 30, 2026, NVIDIA published a post on its official blog in which Ian Buck, a vice president at the company, said that CoreWeave's V100 GPUs are still running customer workloads nearly a decade after the Volta architecture was introduced. That blog post is the starting point for what is currently known about the matter.

The same post also states that CoreWeave has put the newest Vera Rubin NVL72 racks into production. In other words, the same operator is running hardware from both ends of the range at once: the roughly ten-year-old V100 alongside the newest Vera Rubin NVL72 racks.

On October 3, 2026, three posts on the Chinese forum V2EX relayed the claim. Their headlines differ slightly in wording, describing the V100 as still running CoreWeave customer workloads or as still running customer business close to a decade on, but the substance is the same in all three: they all point back to Ian Buck's statement in NVIDIA's September 30 blog post, and they credit the image to NVIDIA's official blog. An excerpt carried with the reports also includes a comment from a maintenance perspective: equipment that is long past its depreciation period while the business still depends on it is a common situation; whether it can keep running depends first on whether spare parts exist and second on whether anyone knows how to repair it. Mixing new and old hardware, the comment adds, is normal, with the newest racks handling the heaviest work and older cards taking lighter loads.

At present, the story stops there: NVIDIA's official blog carried the statement, and three Chinese-language posts relaying it appeared on V2EX with identical content. No further developments have been reported.