Late Monday, Core Scientific announced a 12-year deal with cloud provider CoreWeave to provide infrastructure for use cases like machine learning.
Core Scientific, which emerged from bankruptcy in January, has been mining a mix of digital assets since 2017.
Butterfill said the the overlap is leading to a competition for rack space between bitcoin mining and AI activities.
While AI operations require up to 20 times the capital expenditure of bitcoin mining, they're more profitable, according to a report from CoinShares.
watch now"While we intend to remain one of the largest and most productive bitcoin miners, we expect to have a diversified business model and more predictable cash flows," Sullivan said.
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