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Data from Hashrate Index shows the United States, Russia, and China continue to control the majority of Bitcoin mining, though the U.S. share decreased as Russia expanded its footprint and firms pivoted toward AI.

Bitcoin miner Hut 8 has closed a four-year, $1 billion senior secured credit line, providing flexibility for site development and letters of credit to support utility and vendor obligations.

Despite an $84K Bitcoin price rally boosting gross hashprice and improving mining economics above prior model thresholds, miners remain cautious as early block pace points to a potential difficulty decrease.

Publicly traded Bitcoin miners have secured over $100 billion in artificial intelligence agreements while currently bringing in barely $1.1 billion in annualized revenue, driven by the high value of their grid-accessible power infrastructure.

HIVE Digital Technologies reported over $1 million in average daily revenue between August 21 and September 10, with Bitcoin mining accounting for 90% and GPU-cloud AI operations generating the remaining 10%.

Mining services firm Luxor estimates that about 235 exahashes per second of Bitcoin mining capacity is sitting idle due to economic factors, maintenance, transit, or deliberate curtailment.

Bitcoin's hashrate has spent 316 days below its record as miners redirect power and data-center infrastructure toward artificial intelligence and high-performance computing, highlighting a threat to traditional mining recovery.

AI data centers are adopting power strategies pioneered by Bitcoin miners to manage surging electricity demand, utilizing software to throttle chip power consumption during periods of grid scarcity.

IREN reported that Bitcoin mining still accounts for 82% of its revenue, bringing in $578.2 million despite decommissioning mining hardware to transition data center locations into AI infrastructure for Microsoft.