Data centers worldwide consumed 788 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2025, up 19.7% from 658.2 TWh in 2024, according to the Energy Institute's 2026 Statistical Review of World Energy, which tracked d…
IREN Limited (NASDAQ:IREN) stock fell 6% to $39.85 midday Wednesday as traders de-risked ahead of its fiscal fourth-quarter 2026 earnings report Thursday, while Core Scientific (NASDAQ:CORZ) declined …
Applied Digital (NASDAQ:APLD) and IREN Limited (NASDAQ:IREN) each climbed 6% to $28.48 and $42.04, respectively, while Core Scientific (NASDAQ:CORZ) gained 4% to $17.93, as the digital infrastructure …
Nine publicly traded Bitcoin mining companies invested over $5 billion in AI and high-performance computing infrastructure, generating $341 million in combined revenue in the first half of 2026. Cumul…
CoinShares has expanded the investment strategy of its Bitcoin Mining ETF (WGMI) to include AI and high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure, reflecting a broader shift as Bitcoin miners leverag…
Core Scientific (CORZ) is billing customers for nearly 440 megawatts of AI computing capacity ahead of schedule, marking a successful pivot from Bitcoin mining to AI infrastructure. The company comple…
Fidelity Digital Assets' May 2026 report "6 Key Trends Shaping Digital Assets in 2026" finds that Bitcoin miners are pivoting to AI data centers, causing Bitcoin's average 30-day hash rate to decline …
Bitcoin's network hashrate has fallen 17% from its record high, with mining difficulty down as much as 19.9%, as public miners pivot to AI and high-performance computing hosting deals exceeding $70 bi…
Bitcoin miners are pivoting to AI data center landlords, with Core Scientific's Q2 colocation revenue reaching $136.7 million versus $21.5 million from self-mining, and potential contracted revenue ex…
Bitcoin miner stocks rallied in 2026, with RIOT up 83%, HUT up 72%, BITF up 50%, and CORZ up 31%, driven primarily by AI and high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure revenue rather than mining …
Publicly traded Bitcoin miners cut their realized hashrate by 13.4% from 368.3 EH/s in Q4 2025 to 319 EH/s in Q2 2026, according to BlocksBridge Consulting's Miner Weekly newsletter, as more operators…
Bernstein raised its price target on Riot Platforms (RIOT) to $35 from $30, citing the Bitcoin miner's AI data center pivot, which triggered a 27% surge in pre-market trading. The upgrade follows Riot…
Keel Infrastructure Corp., formerly Bitfarms, has seen its Bitcoin cost basis nearly double to $205,946 after selling 1,670 BTC since April and shutting down its US mining operations to pivot to AI-fo…
Bitcoin's mining difficulty has fallen roughly 19% from its November 2025 peak to 126.23 trillion as of July 25, 2026, marking the largest decline since the 2021 China ban and only the second time dif…
Core Scientific shareholders rejected CoreWeave's $9 billion all-stock acquisition in October 2025, and on July 28, 2026, Core Scientific announced a partnership with AMD to deliver over 500 megawatts…
IREN Ltd. (IREN) is expanding its AI cloud services to convert contracted demand into profits, competing with Core Scientific (CORZ) and Applied Digital (APLD). The company aims to leverage its existi…
CoreWeave signed a multi-year agreement with Solidigm, the Intel-spun-off flash storage maker, guaranteeing priority access to solid-state drives as CoreWeave races to build out data centers fast enou…
Advanced Micro Devices shares fell 7.4% in premarket trading Wednesday, erasing about $61.1 billion in market value, after the company's third-quarter revenue forecast of about $13 billion, while abov…
AMD's data center segment revenue reached $6.7 billion in Q2 2026, more than doubling from $3.2 billion a year earlier, while gaming revenue fell 31% to $779 million. The surge is driven by AI infrast…
AMD reported Q1 2026 revenue of $10.3 billion, up 38% year-over-year, and earnings per share of $1.37, beating estimates by 9-10%, yet its stock declined in after-hours trading. The data-center segmen…