Summary
Galaxy digital, a seemingly huge name in Bitcoin mining is shifting focus to AI amid its rising competition and mining challenges. In its Q3 report, they revealed plans to repurpose their Helios facility in Texas for high-performance AI computing through partnership with a major data center. Galaxy aims to ramp up their power capacity to reach 1.7 GW.
Galaxy digital, a financial services and investments management company which also performs Bitcoin mining has decided to hop in on the trend and shift to AI . Its mostly driven to such path by increasing competition and rising mining difficulty within the whole sector.
In its Q3 reports, Galaxy shared info about them teaming up with a big-time data center called “hyperscaler”, which is rumored to convert its 800MW Helios mining facility in Texas into a high-performance AI hub. At this time only 200MW is active and they’re aiming to boost capacity by adding up to 1.7GW but they need approval from higher-ups to make it possible.
They are not the only ones following this trend, some other big names in crypto mining like Riot Platform and Marathon Digital are also looking to hop on to AI. Core Scientific has already locked in an $8 billion AI deal with CoreWeave over the next 12 years. Analysts say this shift is a major game-changer, to quote: “if Bitcoin miners put 20% of their energy toward AI, annual profits could hit $14 billion by 2027”.