Tom Carreras is a markets reporter for CoinDesk. He holds BTC, ETH and SOL above CoinDesk's disclosure threshold of $1,000.
The rapid proliferation of AI data centers may have a positive impact on the bitcoin mining industry.
“Every potential mining investment now goes through this filter: is it better to use this site for AI purposes or mining,” Spencer Marr, president of bitcoin mining firm Sangha Renewables, told CoinDesk. “Every time they choose AI or other forms of high-performance computing, that means hashrate won’t climb, and hashprice won’t be negatively impacted.”
“In the competition for access to cheap electricity, miners are starting to be squeezed out by more willing purchasers in the form of other forms of compute,” Marr said. “It's a specific game theory, because as the miner, you like to see other people deciding to use cheap electrons for other purposes than Bitcoin compute because of the competitive nature of mining.”
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