Core Scientific Announces Strategic Marketing Hire to Accelerate Growth and Brand Leadership

Industry Veteran Scott Brueggeman Joins Core Scientific as Chief Marketing Officer to Drive Market Expansion and Visibility

Core Scientific, Inc. (NASDAQ:CORZ) ("Core Scientific" or "the Company"), a leader in digital infrastructure for high-performance computing and digital asset mining, today announced the appointment of Scott Brueggeman as Chief Marketing Officer. With over 20 years of experience in digital infrastructure and technology businesses, Brueggeman will play a pivotal role in strengthening the company's brand presence, driving growth, and expanding market opportunities.

Brueggeman brings a proven track record of success in high-growth environments. Most recently, he served as Chief Marketing & Sales Officer at Logix Fiber Networks, where he drove a revitalization of the company's brand, led a team of 60 employees, and achieved a 50% increase in sales productivity. Prior to Logix, Brueggeman held leadership roles at CyrusOne, a $11 billion market cap REIT, where he drove global marketing and inside sales efforts during a period of exponential growth, including an IPO and three strategic acquisitions totaling over $1 billion.

Earlier in his career, Brueggeman directed marketing initiatives at CoreLink Data Centers (acquired by Zayo), led marketing at CareerBuilder, and held several roles at AT&T. He holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a bachelor's degree from the United States Merchant Marine Academy.

"We are excited to welcome Scott Brueggeman to the Core Scientific leadership team," said Adam Sullivan, CEO of Core Scientific. "Scott's deep expertise in marketing, sales, and scaling businesses in the digital infrastructure space aligns perfectly with our growth strategy. His leadership will be instrumental as we continue to innovate and expand our footprint in high-performance computing and digital asset mining."

Brueggeman expressed his enthusiasm for the role, stating, "Core Scientific is at the forefront of digital infrastructure and innovation, and I am thrilled to join such a dynamic organization. I look forward to helping the company amplify its market leadership and connect with partners and customers worldwide."

About Core Scientific

Core Scientific, Inc. is a leader in digital infrastructure for digital asset mining and high-performance computing. We operate dedicated, purpose-built facilities for digital asset mining and are a premier provider of digital infrastructure to our third-party customers. We employ a large fleet of computers ("miners") to earn digital assets for our own account, we provide hosting services for large bitcoin mining customers and we are in the process of allocating and converting a significant portion of our nine operational data centers in Alabama (1), Georgia (2), Kentucky (1), North Carolina (1), North Dakota (1) and Texas (3), and our facility in development in Oklahoma to support artificial intelligence-related workloads under a series of contracts that entail the modification of certain of our data centers to deliver hosting services for high-performance computing. To learn more, visit www.corescientific.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including but not limited to, statements regarding projections, estimates and forecasts of revenue and other financial and performance metrics, projections of market opportunity and expectations, the Company's ability to scale and grow its businesses, implement its business strategy, source necessary electrical energy, the advantages and expected growth of the Company and the Company's ability to source and retain talent. You can identify forward-looking statements by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts. These statements may include words such as "aim," "estimate," "plan," "project," "forecast," "goal," "intend," "will," "expect," "anticipate," "believe," "seek," "target" or other similar expressions that predict or indicate future events or trends or that are not statements of historical matters. All forward looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially, including: our ability to earn digital assets profitably and to attract customers for our current and future expected hosting infrastructure; our ability to maintain our competitive position in our businesses; our ability to raise additional capital to continue our expansion efforts or other operations; our need for significant electric power and the limited availability of power resources; the potential failure in our critical systems, facilities or services we provide; the physical risks and regulatory changes relating to climate change; potential significant changes to the method of validating blockchain transactions; our vulnerability to physical security breaches, which could disrupt our operations; a potential slowdown in market and economic conditions, particularly those impacting artificial intelligence, high value computing, the blockchain industry and the blockchain hosting market; the identification of material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting; price volatility of digital assets and bitcoin in particular; the "halving" and other reduction of rewards available on the Bitcoin network, affecting our ability to generate revenue; the potential that insufficient awards from digital asset mining could disincentivize transaction processors from expending processing power on a particular network, which could negatively impact the utility of the network and further reduce the value of its digital assets; potential changes in the interpretive positions of the SEC or its staff with respect to digital asset mining firms; the increasing likelihood that U.S. federal and state legislatures and regulatory agencies will enact laws and regulations to regulate digital assets and digital asset intermediaries; increasing scrutiny and changing expectations with respect to our ESG policies; the effectiveness of our compliance and risk management methods; the adequacy of our sources of recovery if the digital assets held by us are lost, stolen or destroyed due to third-party digital asset services;; and our level of indebtedness and our current liquidity constraints affecting our financial condition and ability to service our indebtedness. Any such forward-looking statements represent management's estimates and beliefs as of the date of this press release. While we may elect to update such forward-looking statements at some point in the future, we disclaim any obligation to do so, even if subsequent events cause our views to change.

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