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Benzinga
Benzinga
Business
Erica Kollmann

Ex-Bitcoin Miners Turn Power Providers In 'Sputnik-Like' Race For AI Supremacy

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Wall Street is buzzing about the AI trade, but the industry faces a severe bottleneck: power availability. 

Because traditional data center development faces years of regulatory and grid interconnection delays, Bitcoin miners with existing, large-scale energized power capacity have become strategic assets. Hyperscalers like Microsoft and AWS are turning to these operators to meet their immediate deployment needs.

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