Publicly-traded Bitcoin miners are cutting computing capacity as rising demand for artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) makes data-center operations more attractive.
REALITY CHECK | Bitcoin Miners Shift Capacity Toward AI as Mining Economics Weaken Amid Over 20% Hash-Rate Drop in Q2 2026
Publicly-traded Bitcoin miners are cutting computing capacity as rising demand for artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) makes data-center operations more attractive.
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Aug 16, 2026 at 5:00 AM UTC · Updated há 7 dias · 1 min de leitura
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Realized hash-rate among a group of public miners fell 13.4% to 319 exahashes per second (EH/s) in the second quarter from 368.3 EH/s in the fourth quarter of 2025, according to BlocksBridge Consulting.
Excluding Bitdeer, the decline was 21.2%.
The shift comes as miners repurpose power and infrastructure for AI-related workloads. Core Scientific reported $136.7 million in second-quarter colocation revenue, compared with $27.5 million from Bitcoin mining, while TeraWulf generated $31.9 million from HPC leases versus $12.8 million from mining.
Bitcoin’s network hashrate declined 10.6% over the same period, highlighting the faster retreat by some publicly traded miners.
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