# Denvr Dataworks (Bronze) — ClusterMAX GPU Cloud Review > Denvr Dataworks earns a ClusterMAX 2.0 Bronze rating from SemiAnalysis. During previous rounds of testing, Denvr Dataworks was a strong cloud provider with a promising future despite a part-time obsession with immersion cooling. To set aside the claims around the viability of immersion cooling on… - **Provider**: Denvr Dataworks - **ClusterMAX Tier**: Bronze - **Tier definition**: Meets minimum criteria. Last category we directly recommend; often with inconsistent support or networking gaps. - **Authors**: Jordan Nanos, Daniel Nishball, Dylan Patel (SemiAnalysis) - **Published**: 2025-11-06 (Nov 06, 2025) - **Last updated**: 2025-11-06 (Nov 06, 2025) - **Source**: ClusterMAX 2.0 - **Canonical URL**: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/denvrdataworks - **Source article**: https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/clustermax-20-the-industry-standard - **Topics**: Denvr Dataworks review, Denvr Dataworks GPU cloud, Denvr Dataworks ClusterMAX rating, Denvr Dataworks Bronze, Bronze tier GPU cloud, GPU cloud review, neocloud review, Denvr Dataworks H100, H100 cloud, Kubernetes, Slurm, ClusterMAX 2.0, SemiAnalysis --- During previous rounds of testing, Denvr Dataworks was a strong cloud provider with a promising future despite a part-time obsession with immersion cooling. To set aside the claims around the viability of immersion cooling on the technical side, it is also clear that claims regarding the usage of fresh water for cooling in datacenters are way overblown. This is described in detail in [this report](https://eta-publications.lbl.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/lbnl-2024-united-states-data-center-energy-usage-report.pdf?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email) and [this article](https://andymasley.substack.com/p/the-ai-water-issue-is-fake), which estimate that datacenters in the US used less than 0.15% of the nation’s freshwater last year, depending on how you count it. * 50M gallons per day if counting only cooling * 200-275M gallons per day if counting power but not dam reservoir evaporation * 628M gallons per day if counting evaporation from reservoirs used for hydro power Compared to the roughly 2 billion gallons of water per day used for golf course irrigation, the 50 million gallons per day on liquid cooling is about 2.4% of the total. Unfortunately, it seems that much of the original Denvr team has now left the company and GPUs are inaccessible to us when using their website directly. [](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6rqe!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67f8f0d9-1ee2-4927-930b-eaa7ae6dbfe3_937x496.png)Can’t spin up a VM without a VPC [](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cRIh!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa1866d60-824a-494d-96e0-16a973b5210b_937x496.png)Can’t make a VPC without talking to a sysadmin However, Denvr’s hardware has not disappeared entirely. Instead, it appears Denvr has pivoted to wholesale-only, surfacing its capacity through aggregators and marketplaces. During our testing of the Dstack Sky platform, our job was provisioned on a Denvr Dataworks machine in Houston, Texas via vast.ai. After getting through the turducken of ssh tunnels and into the dstack orchestrated, vast.ai deployed, container running on the Denvr server, we were able to successfully run a multi-GPU (2x H100) RL training job on this hardware. When it works, it works. In the future we look forward to revisiting the Denvr platform and testing out slurm or kubernetes offerings. --- Other Bronze tier providers: - GMI: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/gmi - STN: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/stn - Prime Intellect: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/primeintellect - Neysa: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/neysa - Hyperstack/NexGen: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/hyperstacknexgen - Atlas Cloud: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/atlascloud - BuzzHPC: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/buzzhpc - Shadeform: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/shadeform - Runpod: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/runpod - Verda/DataCrunch: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/verdadatacrunch - Digital Ocean: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/digitalocean - IBM Cloud: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/ibmcloud - Hot Aisle: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/hotaisle - Vast.ai: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/vastai - CUDO Compute: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/cudocompute - Lightning.ai: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/lightningai - Qubrid: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/qubrid - Latitude.sh: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/latitudesh Full ClusterMAX 2.0 + 2.1 index: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview Full LLM dump of all reviews: https://www.clustermax.ai/llms-full.txt