Bitcoin Miners Have Spent $5.11 Billion on AI and Earned $341 Million Back
Public Bitcoin miners are committing billions of dollars to artificial intelligence and high-performance computing infrastructure, but the revenue those investments generate has barely regist
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August 22, 2026
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Public Bitcoin miners are committing billions of dollars to artificial intelligence and high-performance computing infrastructure, but the revenue those investments generate has barely registered compared to the capital flowing out, according to new data from BlocksBridge Consulting.
In its latest Miner Weekly newsletter, BlocksBridge reported that a combined group of 15 Bitcoin miners and AI data-centre companies spent $30.7 billion on capital assets across their most recent 2026 reporting periods. That figure already exceeds the $21.53 billion the same group spent across all of 2025, a jump of 42.6%.
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