CleanSpark , a Las Vegas based bitcoin miner, is moving into artificial intelligence, beginning to develop AI data centers alongside its crypto-mining business. The company's CEO laid out details of the recently announced strategy on CNBC's "Crypto World" this week, and why it's likely to become core to the business models of more crypto mining companies.
One key example of why bitcoin miners can win in the booming data center market: CleanSpark recently won a 100-megawatt site in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and beat out the tech giant Microsoft for the contract, according to its CEO.
How did a company with a market cap under $6 billion best a $4 trillion company?
Speed to market.
"We were able to scale up and deploy 100 megawatt bitcoin mining facility in about six months,

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