Shares of TeraWulf (NASDAQ: WULF) jumped greater than 25% Tuesday morning after the corporate introduced a pivot to AI.
TeraWulf, one of many largest publicly traded bitcoin miners, is accelerating its shift into artificial intelligence infrastructure by means of a brand new three way partnership with AI cloud supplier Fluidstack.
The businesses plan to construct 168 megawatts (MW) of high-performance computing capability at TeraWulf’s Abernathy, Texas, campus below a 25-year internet hosting settlement valued at roughly $9.5 billion in contracted income.
TeraWulf will maintain a 51% stake within the enterprise and retain unique rights to take part in Fluidstack’s subsequent ~168 MW challenge on comparable phrases. Building is predicted to be accomplished within the second half of 2026, with the overall challenge costing $8 million to $10 million per MW, the corporate announced.
To assist challenge financing, Google has dedicated to again about $1.3 billion of Fluidstack’s long-term lease obligations, bettering the credit score profile of the three way partnership’s debt construction.
No fairness issuance or warrants had been included as a part of the deal.
The announcement expands TeraWulf’s contracted high-performance compute pipeline to greater than 510 MW and helps an up to date development technique concentrating on 250 MW to 500 MW of recent contracted capability yearly.
The corporate, greatest identified for its bitcoin mining operations, has more and more leaned into AI-focused knowledge heart improvement amid a market shift towards GPU-based compute demand.
“Securing greater than 510 MW of essential IT load previously 10 months gives a direct proof-point of our development technique,” CEO Paul Prager mentioned.
Alongside the growth, TeraWulf reported preliminary third-quarter income of $48 million to $52 million — up roughly 84% from a yr earlier — and adjusted EBITDA of $15 million to $19 million.
Bitcoin miners are pivoting to AI
Main Bitcoin mining corporations are switching over to AI on prime of their mining efforts. Companies like Marathon Digital, Riot Platforms, and CleanSpark are seeing sturdy inventory features but are also pivoting towards Synthetic Intelligence and Excessive-Efficiency Computing (HPC), leveraging their large-scale power and knowledge infrastructure.
This transition positions miners as rising expertise gamers past cryptocurrency, attracting investor curiosity.
Different corporations, together with Core Scientific, Bitdeer, and Hut 8, are following swimsuit — Bitcoin miners have gotten key contributors to the AI-driven digital financial system whereas sustaining publicity to Bitcoin.
In accordance with their web site, TeraWulf is a U.S.-based digital asset expertise firm that owns and operates sustainable knowledge facilities for high-performance computing (HPC) and bitcoin mining.
