The Compute Gold Rush: AI Expansion, Power Infrastructure, and the Evolution of Bitcoin Mining
AI labs are spending like compute is oxygen, and the ripple effects are rewriting the playbook for Bitcoin miners, data center developers, and anyone investing in power infrastructure. The headlines across Hut 8, Core Scientific, TeraWulf,Bitdeer, Anthropic, and IREN translate into the few signals that actually matter: contract quality, megawatt economics, financing terms, and whether teams can deliver energized capacity on time.