Rising AI Demand Could Accelerate Bitcoin Miners’ Shift Away From BTC

[etfs]

The surge in AI computing demand may have ripple effects beyond the tech sector, particularly for Bitcoin miners. Over the past few years, some mining firms have already pivoted part of their infrastructure toward AI workloads as mining difficulty increased and margins tightened.

As AI offers an alternative revenue stream that can better monetize high-performance hardware, growing demand for compute could make the transition even more attractive. For miners with access to power and data-center-grade infrastructure, AI computing presents a way to diversify income beyond block rewards alone.

[madtrader]

funny how crypto mining and ai end up competing for the same infra after all