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 synthetic intelligence infrastructure by way 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 beneath 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 undertaking on comparable phrases. Development is predicted to be accomplished within the second half of 2026, with the overall undertaking costing $8 million to $10 million per MW, the corporate introduced.
To assist undertaking 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 have 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 progress technique focusing on 250 MW to 500 MW of latest contracted capability yearly.
The corporate, finest identified for its bitcoin mining operations, has more and more leaned into AI-focused information heart growth amid a market shift towards GPU-based compute demand.
“Securing greater than 510 MW of essential IT load up to now 10 months offers a direct proof-point of our progress technique,” CEO Paul Prager stated.
Alongside the enlargement, TeraWulf reported preliminary third-quarter income of $48 million to $52 million — up roughly 84% from a 12 months 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 high of their mining efforts. Companies like Marathon Digital, Riot Platforms, and CleanSpark are seeing sturdy inventory good points however are additionally pivoting towards Synthetic Intelligence and Excessive-Efficiency Computing (HPC), leveraging their large-scale power and information 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.
Based on their web site, TeraWulf is a U.S.-based digital asset expertise firm that owns and operates sustainable information facilities for high-performance computing (HPC) and bitcoin mining.
