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Bitcoin Miners Surge as AI’s Insatiable Power Hunger Creates Unlikely Synergies
Bitcoin Miners Surge as AI’s Insatiable Power Hunger Creates Unlikely Synergies
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What happens when two of tech’s most power-hungry industries collide? Bitcoin miners—long vilified for their energy gluttony—are suddenly looking like strategic infrastructure players as AI data centers scramble for electricity.
The new calculus: Those mining rigs chewing through megawatts might actually help balance grids strained by AI’s explosive growth. Some miners are already pivoting to become ’energy brokers’—selling power back to utilities during peak demand.
Wall Street’s take? Suddenly bullish on an industry it wrote off last cycle. Because nothing revives institutional interest like the prospect of arbitraging power contracts—and let’s be honest, the chance to slap ’AI-adjacent’ on a pitch deck.
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