CoreWeave is buying Core Scientific, Bitcoin miner, for $9 billion. It is an all-stock deal to speed up AI data center construction and deployment.
• Core Scientific’s 1.3 GW power capacity over 11 U.S. sites
• $10B in lease savings, $500M in annual cost cuts by 2027
HIVE estimates 10 MW of NVIDIA H100 GPUs yield revenue similar to 100 MW of Bitcoin mining Bitcoin Miners Pivot to AI Data Centers.
GPU infrastructure generates 10x the revenue density of crypto mining.
• AI workloads generate up to 𝟵𝟬% 𝗘𝗕𝗜𝗧𝗗𝗔 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗻𝘀, vs. Bitcoin mining’s cyclical, razor-thin returns.
• Miners like Northern Data , HIVE Digital Technologies LTD, IREN and Hut8 are switching to AI.
• Global data center investment? Up 𝟱𝟭% 𝗬𝗼𝗬 𝘁𝗼 $𝟰𝟱𝟱𝗕.
Galaxy Digital walked away from Bitcoin mining entirely, signing a $4.5B, 15-year deal with CoreWeave for AI infrastructure.
For years, Layer 1 blockchains soaked up billions in decentralized infrastructure.
But the real infrastructure play might not be chains, but compute.
And smart money is moving:
• Blackstone , Brookfield, KKR pouring billions into GPUs and AI-ready data centers.
• VCs invested $350M+ into decentralized compute this year alone.
The real scarce asset is compute not tokens.
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