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Bitcoin miners rallied as investors cheered multi-billion-dollar AI infrastructure contracts, underscoring the sector’s accelerating shift toward data centers and cloud computing. Shares of several Bitcoin mining companies surged Monday after Hut 8 and IREN announced major AI infrastructure deals, reinforcing investor optimism around miners expanding into artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. IREN, Cipher Digital, CleanSpark, Hut 8 and MARA Holdings each gained at least 11% in early Monday trading. The rally followed Hut 8’s announcement of a 15-year, $9.8 billion lease for its AI data center campus and IREN’s disclosure of $2.8 billion in cloud services contracts with AI developers. Both companies began as Bitcoin (BTC) miners before accelerating a pivot toward AI infrastructure and cloud computing as mining economics weakened. IREN now expects its AI cloud business to generate more than $4 billion in annual recurring revenue by the end of 2026. Read more

The Bitcoin miner raised its year-end AI cloud revenue target to more than $4 billion after signing $2.8 billion in new contracts with AI developers. Bitcoin miner IREN’s shares rose around 15.7% on Monday after the company raised its year-end AI cloud annualized run-rate revenue target to more than $4 billion following $2.8 billion in new multi-year cloud services contracts with AI developers. The company said about 85% of its revised annualized AI cloud revenue target is now under contract, with customers including Microsoft, Nvidia, Perplexity and Figure AI. Read more

IREN leads public Bitcoin miners with a projected $21.1 billion AI infrastructure funding gap, underscoring the capital-intensive nature of converting mining sites into data centers. Public Bitcoin miners are increasingly being valued as AI infrastructure companies, but turning that narrative into reality could require roughly $50 billion in near-term capital, according to a new framework highlighted by Blocksbridge Consulting's latest Miner Weekly newsletter. Using data from VanEck, the report argues that miners need long-term financing to convert power assets into AI-ready data centers, where higher infrastructure standards translate into much larger capital requirements than traditional Bitcoin (BTC) mining operations. “A Bitcoin mine can run with relatively simple buildings, modular infrastructure and ASIC fleets that tolerate fast curtailment. AI and HPC facilities require higher standards for uptime, cooling, electrical redundancy, networking and customer support,” Miner Weekly said. Read more

The acquisition adds about 490 megawatts of secured power in Spain as IREN expands beyond Bitcoin mining and builds its European AI cloud platform. Bitcoin miner IREN has completed its acquisition of the Spanish data center developer Nostrum Group, marking its entry into Europe as the company builds out its artificial intelligence cloud business. IREN said in a press release on Monday that the acquisition adds about 490 megawatts of secured, grid-connected power in Spain, along with a development pipeline and over 50 employees across engineering, construction, development and operations. The deal expands IREN's global power portfolio to about 5 gigawatts, with the Spanish capacity representing about 10% of the total. Read more

Dan Roberts outlines IREN’s strategy to build a vertically integrated AI platform spanning power, data centers, GPUs and enterprise software.

As Bitcoin miner IREN shifts toward AI cloud infrastructure, leveraging a Microsoft deal and GPU expansion, analysts expect mining revenue to decline over time. IREN could become the next major Bitcoin miner to transition into AI infrastructure following its multi-billion-dollar deal with Microsoft, underscoring a broader shift in mining economics, according to a new research report from Bernstein. The Bernstein analysts point to IREN’s rapidly expanding AI cloud division, where around 150,000 GPUs are already contracted, supporting an estimated $3.7 billion in annual revenue run rate once fully functional. A significant portion of this capacity is tied to a long-term agreement with Microsoft, which has committed to using GPU capacity for AI workloads over five years. The deal also includes substantial customer prepayments, helping fund the infrastructure buildout. Read more

Crypto mining stocks have declined across the board the value of the entire crypto market fell almost 9% on Thursday. Shares in crypto mining companies IREN and CleanSpark sank on Thursday as their earnings came in below Wall Street expectations and Bitcoin’s slide saw traders turn risk-off. Bitcoin (BTC) has fallen 12% over the past 24 hours to briefly touch a low of $60,000 early on Friday. Meanwhile, the crypto market capitalization fell by almost 9%, according to CoinMarketCap. CleanSpark (CLSK) led the decline, closing trading on Thursday down 19.13% and falling another 8.6% after-hours to $7.55 after its results for the quarter ended Dec. 31 came in below analyst predictions. Read more

Microsoft’s $9.7 billion contract with a Texas miner reveals the new math pushing crypto infrastructure toward AI, and what it means for the networks left behind. IREN’s November 3 announcement collapses two transactions into a single strategic pivot. The first is a five-year, $9.7 billion cloud services contract with Microsoft, while the second is a […] The post Bitcoin miner to AI landlord: Microsoft signs $9.7B deal with BTC miner IREN appeared first on CryptoSlate.

IREN’s Microsoft partnership underscores how Bitcoin miners are reinventing themselves as AI infrastructure providers amid tightening margins. Bitcoin mining company IREN (IREN) has signed a multi-year GPU cloud services contract with Microsoft, highlighting the growing integration between traditional mining infrastructure and the expanding demands of Big Tech for AI computing power. The five-year agreement, valued at $9.7 billion, will provide Microsoft with access to Nvidia GB300 GPUs hosted within IREN’s data centers. In a related move, IREN also announced a $5.8 billion deal with Dell Technologies to acquire GPUs and related equipment. The company plans to fund its capital expenditures through a combination of cash reserves, customer prepayments, operational cash flow, and additional financing. Read more

Bitcoin miner IREN rose 14% in after-hours trading after posting a record $187.3 million revenue in the last quarter, as it continues to expand into AI. Bitcoin miner IREN has posted its best quarter of earnings to date, bringing in $187.3 million last quarter, which contributed to a record $501 million revenue for the fiscal year, sending its stock up nearly 14% in after-hours trading.  Quarterly revenue for the month ended June 30 was up 226% year-on-year, helping the company swing back into profitability with $176.9 million in net income, IREN said in a report on Thursday.  The surge was driven by growth in its Bitcoin (BTC) mining business, but the company has also made moves to deepen its footprint in the AI space as a new “Preferred Partner” to AI giant Nvidia. Read more

Shares in IREN Ltd closed trading on Wednesday up 11.4% after it reported mining more Bitcoin than MARA Holdings in July. Shares in IREN Ltd popped 11.4% after the Bitcoin miner posted $86 million in revenue for July, outperforming industry heavyweight MARA Holdings in Bitcoin production. On Wednesday, IREN reported mining 728 Bitcoin (BTC) in July, beating MARA’s 703 BTC mined over the same period despite having a smaller deployed hashrate — 50 exahashes per second (EH/s) compared to MARA’s 58.9 EH/s. IREN reported an average hashrate over July of 45.4 EH/s, signalling that a majority of its machines stayed online and productive throughout the month. Read more