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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-027960"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CORZ"
cik: "0001839341"
company_name: "Core Scientific, Inc./tx"
filed_at: "2025-05-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T11:25:06.584574+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Core Scientific approves board declassification, removes creditor consent rights; supermajority repeal fails

## Summary
- Stockholders approved declassifying Board: all directors to stand for annual election starting 2026 (for: 198.7M, against: 337k).
- Amendment eliminating certain creditor consent rights from bankruptcy emergence also approved (for: 198.5M, against: 641k).
- Proposal to remove 66 2/3% supermajority vote requirements failed (for: 188.1M, against: 2.3M, abstain 10.4M).
- Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation and Third Amended and Restated Bylaws filed effective May 27, 2025.
- Board also amended Bylaws to conform, revise nomination/disclosure procedures, and remove post-bankruptcy sunset provisions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-027960
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CORZ
- cik: 0001839341
- company_name: Core Scientific, Inc./tx
- filed_at: 2025-05-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.03, 5.07, 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1839341/000162828025027960/0001628280-25-027960-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1839341/000162828025027960/core-20250523.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Core Scientific, Inc./tx: Eliminated classified board, removed supermajority vote requirement, and eliminated creditor consent rights upon emergence from bankruptcy, effective upon filing of Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (effective 2025-05-27).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-05-27
  source text: the stockholder-approved amendments to the Certificate of Incorporation became effective upon the filing of the Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation on May 27, 2025 with the Secretary of State of Delaware.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1839341/000162828025027960/0001628280-25-027960-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  Core Scientific, Inc./tx: Amended and restated bylaws to conform to charter amendments, revise procedural mechanics for stockholder nominations and proposals, and make ministerial changes (effective 2025-05-27).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-05-27
  source text: the Board approved, contingent and effective upon stockholder approval of the Approved Proposals and effectiveness of the Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the amendment and restatement of the Company’s Second Amended and Restated Bylaws
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1839341/000162828025027960/0001628280-25-027960-index.htm

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