$17.53
24h
-1.68%
15 Aug, 16:18
Bitcoin miner with locked-in power infrastructure
Bullish-7.83%
AI Summary
The author argues that the current market rally is fundamentally an electricity/power infrastructure play disguised as an AI rally, with bitcoin miners and data center companies holding valuable long-term power contracts being the real beneficiaries.
Y’all calling this an AI rally? 👀
Look closer at what’s actually getting bid and it starts to look like an electricity rally wearing an AI costume.
US power demand is set to rise about 2 percent this year. Sounds boring until you see where it comes from:
Commercial usage jumping around 5%, almost ALL of it data centers.
Then this week a bitcoin miner signed a 9 billion dollar, 20-year cloud deal and the stock ran 25%.
Nobody paid $9B for the coins. They paid for the power contracts and the land next to a substation.
The chip and memory story keeps getting the headlines.
The thing every part of that story quietly depends on is a plug in the ground that somebody already locked up.
Worth knowing who owns the plug.
$NBIS $IREN $CIFR $WULF $RIOT $BRUN
-BP
Not financial advice.