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Core Scientific lands AMD AI deal as bitcoin mining operation winds down
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Fusion42 · 28 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Core Scientific signed a 15-year, 529 MW AI infrastructure deal with AMD worth $14 billion in base contracted revenue, with options to expand to 2.5 GW by 2028. The partnership accelerates Core Scientific's exit from bitcoin mining into AI data centre hosting.
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AMD just locked down 2.5 GW of U.S. AI compute for 15 years through a former bitcoin miner. If you're selling GPU orchestration, inference optimisation, or power management software to data centres, your entire addressable market just consolidated into one customer relationship with a known buyer.
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