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- BThursday · 47 min
CleanSpark’s $6.6B Meta Deal, Rune Raises $40M for Solar Farm Data Centers, Moratoriums Haven’t Killed the AI Trade (Yet)
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! CleanSpark rose 6% in early trading hours today on news that it inked its $6.6B Sandersville AI deal with Meta, the first revelation of the site’s tenant, who also holds exclusivity rights to CleanSpark’s Sealy and Brazoria, TX sites. We also cover how OpenAI is closing the gap with Anthropic as the two frontier labs race to public markets, Rune’s $40M raise to bring modular, containerized data centers to solar farms, and SemiAnalysis’ latest research that shows moratoriums have done little to slow the data center buildout in the US. Check out Dimetrics, the AI industry’s Bloomberg terminal. Track financial metrics and news for AI stocks, GPU rental prices, state-by-state data center pushback, and more with the compute industry’s most powerful dashboard. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive updates for all of our shows and content. We’ll be in Las Vegas from Sept 28-30 for Yotta 2026 – we hope to see you there! Use code BLOCKSPACE20 at checkout for 20% off. 👉Luxor, Blockspace's preferred mining pool. Start hashing today with Luxor! 👉Lygos Finance, Borrow against your Bitcoin, without compromising on custody.
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- BWednesday · 1 hr 1 min
Cipher Digital Stock Price and Batch Zero Update, How the Fed Hike Will Affect Neoclouds, Tech Titans Battle for the Soul of AI
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Cipher Digital surged today on clarification of its Batch Zero classifications, which includes 1,100 MW of base load and 2,100 MW of studied load. We also dive into how the Fed’s rate hike will impact neocloud and powered shell providers, the latest shots fired by tech CEOs in the war to pause or advance AI, and Apple’s reported move into a commercial AI inference server line. Check out Dimetrics, the AI industry’s Bloomberg terminal. Track financial metrics and news for AI stocks, GPU rental prices, state-by-state data center pushback, and more with the compute industry’s most powerful dashboard. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive updates for all of our shows and content. We’ll be in Las Vegas from Sept 28-30 for Yotta 2026 – we hope to see you there! Use code BLOCKSPACE20 at checkout for 20% off. 👉Luxor, Blockspace's preferred mining pool. Start hashing today with Luxor! 👉Lygos Finance, Borrow against your Bitcoin, without compromising on custody.
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- BTuesday · 58 min
MARA Stock Price and Batch Zero Update, Crusoe’s Perplexity Deal and Switchgear Factory, Meta’s AI ASIC Play
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we open with a stock price update for MARA following its Batch Zero base load and studied load classifications, and we also cover Soluna’s additional base load classification for its 100 MW Dorothy site. Plus, we take a look at Crusoe’s deal with Perplexity AI and its plans for a new switchgear factory in Tulsa, OK, and Damsker Report author Alexandra Damsker joins to make the case for why she believes CoreWeave is overvalued, resulting in a spirited back-and-forth over CoreWeave’s actual business model, economics, and debt. Finally, we close on Meta upping its custom silicon AI ASIC line, the Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA), as it plans to ramp up deployment in 2027 and beyond. Check out Dimetrics, the AI industry’s Bloomberg terminal. Track financial metrics and news for AI stocks, GPU rental prices, state-by-state data center pushback, and more with the compute industry’s most powerful dashboard. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive updates for all of our shows and content. We’ll be in Las Vegas from Sept 28-30 for Yotta 2026 – we hope to see you there! Use code BLOCKSPACE20 at checkout for 20% off. 👉Luxor, Blockspace's preferred mining pool. Start hashing today with Luxor! 👉Lygos Finance, Borrow against your Bitcoin, without compromising on custody.
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- BMonday · 1 hr 8 min
AI Stocks Tumble, Frontier Lab CEOs Call for AI Slowdown, and Ellison Pulls the Plug on 50M ORCL Sale Amid Layoffs
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we look at the winners – and mostly losers – from today’s AI stock sell off as the market reacts to top AI lab CEOs calling for a slowdown to the pace of frontier lab development. On that note, we unpack why Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is calling to “pace the frontier,” what that actually means, and the reaction from other leading CEOs and President Trump. We also cover why Oracle Executive Director Larry Ellison is pulling the plug on a sale of 50 million ORCL shares, and we interview Lygos Finance CEO Jay Patel on the recent melt-up of U.S. Treasury yields and the changes to the CLARITY Act as the bill advances toward a procedural vote in the Senate this weel. Check out Dimetrics, the AI industry’s Bloomberg terminal. Track financial metrics and news for AI stocks, GPU rental prices, state-by-state data center pushback, and more with the compute industry’s most powerful dashboard. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive updates for all of our shows and content. We’ll be in Las Vegas from Sept 28-30 for Yotta 2026 – we hope to see you there! Use code BLOCKSPACE20 at checkout for 20% off. 👉Luxor, Blockspace's preferred mining pool. Start hashing today with Luxor! 👉Lygos Finance, Borrow against your Bitcoin, without compromising on custody.
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- BSeptember 11 · 1 hr 4 min
Hut 8 Stock Price Update, Fluidstack Taps Pentagon for $5B, Chinese LLMs Were Claude All Along
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we look at why Hut 8 is leading a rally in powered shells following its Batch Zero approval, wondering if investors see downstream benefits for Hut 8 from our second news topic, where Fluidstack is reportedly in talks to tap a $5B loan from the Pentagon under its new data center supply chain debt program. For today’s interview, Data Center Richness journalist Rich Miller joins to discuss how data center M&A is heating up, and we close the show on Anthropic’s bombshell report that Moonshot was routing Kimi inference traffic through Claude – and how Moonshot, Alibaba, and Deepseek have all leaned on Claude heavily to train their own models. Check out Dimetrics, the AI industry’s Bloomberg terminal. Track financial metrics and news for AI stocks, GPU rental prices, state-by-state data center pushback, and more with the compute industry’s most powerful dashboard. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive updates for all of our shows and content. We’ll be in Las Vegas from Sept 28-30 for Yotta 2026 – we hope to see you there! Use code BLOCKSPACE20 at checkout for 20% off. 👉Luxor, Blockspace's preferred mining pool. Start hashing today with Luxor! 👉Lygos Finance, Borrow against your Bitcoin, without compromising on custody.
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- BSeptember 10 · 1 hr 3 min
Cipher Digital, Core Scientific, Ionic Digital Batch Zero Updates and SpaceX Taps Rocket Scientists for Data Center Construction
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we open with a stock update, focusing on Cipher Digital, Core Scientific, and Ionic Digital’s announcements for their Batch Zero designations. We also cover how SpaceX is rehauling its data center construction team with engineers from its rocket line, Google and Blackstone’s Crux AI joint-venture running into delays, and a breakdown of pro-data center Super PAC spending and ad campaigns. Check out Dimetrics, the AI industry’s Bloomberg terminal. Track financial metrics and news for AI stocks, GPU rental prices, state-by-state data center pushback, and more with the compute industry’s most powerful dashboard. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive updates for all of our shows and content. We’ll be in Las Vegas from Sept 28-30 for Yotta 2026 – we hope to see you there! Use code BLOCKSPACE20 at checkout for 20% off. 👉Luxor, Blockspace's preferred mining pool. Start hashing today with Luxor! 👉Lygos Finance, Borrow against your Bitcoin, without compromising on custody.
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- BSeptember 9 · 1 hr 5 min
Galaxy Digital and CleanSpark Batch Zero Approvals, How to Secure a Data Center, Anthropic Thinks AI Could Kill Us All
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we open with a stock update, focusing on Galaxy Digital and CleanSpark’s announcements for base load and studied load classification under ERCOT’s Batch Zero. For interviews, Acre Security CEO Kumar Sokka joins to discuss the ins-and-outs of data center security, and Lygos Finance CEO Jay Patel unpacks Kraken’s M&A strategy as it eyes an IPO. To bookend the show, we scrutinize the AI doomerism leaking from Anthropic following X posts from a former engineer and its head of alignment regarding AI’s perceived existential risk to humanity. Check out Dimetrics, the AI industry’s Bloomberg terminal. Track financial metrics and news for AI stocks, GPU rental prices, state-by-state data center pushback, and more with the compute industry’s most powerful dashboard. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive updates for all of our shows and content. We’ll be in Las Vegas from Sept 28-30 for Yotta 2026 – we hope to see you there! Use code BLOCKSPACE20 at checkout for 20% off. 👉Luxor, Blockspace's preferred mining pool. Start hashing today with Luxor! 👉Lygos Finance, Borrow against your Bitcoin, without compromising on custody.
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- BSeptember 8 · 59 min
IREN Stock Price Update and Batch Zero Approval, Palantir Taps Nebius for Sovereign AI, Soluna Batch Zero Approval, Data Centers Enrich WV
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we open with a stock update – data center and AI stocks are ripping, and IREN, CIFR, CLSK, WULF, HUT, MARA, and other are up significantly, particularly those likely to have received favorable approvals for ERCOT’s Batch Zero designations. We also cover IREN receiving base load designation for Sweetwater 1 and 2 in Batch Zero, Palantir and Nebius new agreement for sovereign AI enterprise compute, Soluna’s project Kati receiving base load designation for Batch Zero, and how West Virginia’s new data center tax law is a boon for the state and its localities. Check out Dimetrics, the AI industry’s Bloomberg terminal. Track financial metrics and news for AI stocks, GPU rental prices, state-by-state data center pushback, and more with the compute industry’s most powerful dashboard. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive updates for all of our shows and content. We’ll be in Las Vegas from Sept 28-30 for Yotta 2026 – we hope to see you there! Use code BLOCKSPACE20 at checkout for 20% off. 👉Luxor, Blockspace's preferred mining pool. Start hashing today with Luxor! 👉Lygos Finance, Borrow against your Bitcoin, without compromising on custody.
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- BSeptember 4 · 55 min
Crusoe’s $13B Deal with Jane Street, ERCOT Batch Zero Classifications, Luxor’s GPU Price Index
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we cover Crusoe’s $13B deal with Jane Street as the trading firm builds out its AI cloud business for internal use. For interviews, Luxor’s Kaan Farahani joins to discuss their latest addition to Hashrate Index, the GPU Price Index, which tracks real pricing for H200 and H100 nodes, and RTO Insider journalist Tom Kleckner breaks down ERCOT’s load classification decision for Batch Zero. Finally, we close on Anthropic upping its revolving credit line to $15B in anticipation of its IPO. Check out Dimetrics, the AI industry’s Bloomberg terminal. Track financial metrics and news for AI stocks, GPU rental prices, state-by-state data center pushback, and more with the compute industry’s most powerful dashboard. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive updates for all of our shows and content. We’ll be in Las Vegas from Sept 28-30 for Yotta 2026 – we hope to see you there! Use code BLOCKSPACE20 at checkout for 20% off. 👉Luxor, Blockspace's preferred mining pool. Start hashing today with Luxor! 👉Lygos Finance, Borrow against your Bitcoin, without compromising on custody.
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- BSeptember 3 · 58 min
Cipher’s 2.5 GW Gas Pipeline, IREN’s $2.8B GPU Financing, Nscale’s IPO and $103B Contract Backlog
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we break down Cipher Digital’s plan to build 2.5 GW of gas pipelines to expedite its data center buildouts, including which sites will most likely benefit from the behind-the-meter generation. We also cover IREN’s latest $2.8B GPU financing round, whether or not the AI bottleneck trade is dead, and Nscale’s reported $103B in contract backlogs ahead of its September IPO. Plus, Senator Bernie Sanders has proposed a cap on AI intelligence to keep it below human IQ. Check out Dimetrics, the AI industry’s Bloomberg terminal. Track financial metrics and news for AI stocks, GPU rental prices, state-by-state data center pushback, and more with the compute industry’s most powerful dashboard. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive updates for all of our shows and content. We’ll be in Las Vegas from Sept 28-30 for Yotta 2026 – we hope to see you there! Use code BLOCKSPACE20 at checkout for 20% off. 👉CleanSpark (Nasdaq: CLSK), a market-leading data center developer with a proven track record of success. 👉Luxor, Blockspace's preferred mining pool. Start hashing today with Luxor! 👉Lygos Finance, Borrow against your Bitcoin, without compromising on custody.
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- BSeptember 2 · 50 min
SB Energy IPO Analysis, Google Taps 396MW of Geothermal with Fervo, Bitdeer’s $100M Landgrab for Rockdale
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we break down SB Energy’s IPO plans – with some bankers saying the stock could fetch a $50B valuation despite not yet having an active data center – and dig into the nature of the intertwined financial relationship between SB Energy and its fellow Stargate pioneers, Open AI and NVIDIA. For other news, we cover Google’s 396 MW PPA with geothermal energy startup Fervo and Bitdeer moving one step closer to an AI deal with a $100M land acquisition for its Rockdale data center. Check out Dimetrics, the AI industry’s Bloomberg terminal. Track financial metrics and news for AI stocks, GPU rental prices, state-by-state data center pushback, and more with the compute industry’s most powerful dashboard. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive updates for all of our shows and content. We’ll be in Las Vegas from Sept 28-30 for Yotta 2026 – we hope to see you there! Use code BLOCKSPACE20 at checkout for 20% off. 👉CleanSpark (Nasdaq: CLSK), a market-leading data center developer with a proven track record of success. 👉Luxor, Blockspace's preferred mining pool. Start hashing today with Luxor! 👉Lygos Finance, Borrow against your Bitcoin, without compromising on custody.
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- BSeptember 1 · 1 hr 10 min
Anthropic’s $35B Lambda Deal, ERCOT Misses Batch Zero Baseload Deadline, Anti-AI Politicians Are Getting Rich from AI Stocks
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we open with Anthropic’s $35B deal with Lambda for AI cloud compute at Hut 8’s Beacon Point data center, and then we touch on ERCOT missing yesterday’s deadline for a decision on conditional base load classifications in Batch Zero. For interviews, Neddham analyst John Todaro joins us to discuss AI stocks, and Pirate Wires journalist Jonas Du hops on to discuss his latest feature exposing that the portfolios of the most vociferous anti-data center politicians tell a much different story about how they truly feel about the AI boom. Check out Dimetrics, the AI industry’s Bloomberg terminal. Track financial metrics and news for AI stocks, GPU rental prices, state-by-state data center pushback, and more with the compute industry’s most powerful dashboard. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive updates for all of our shows and content. We’ll be in Las Vegas from Sept 28-30 for Yotta 2026 – we hope to see you there! Use code BLOCKSPACE20 at checkout for 20% off. 👉CleanSpark (Nasdaq: CLSK), a market-leading data center developer with a proven track record of success. 👉Luxor, Blockspace's preferred mining pool. Start hashing today with Luxor! 👉Lygos Finance, Borrow against your Bitcoin, without compromising on custody.
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- BAugust 31 · 55 min
IREN, CIFR, HUT Stock Price Updates, PUCT Approves Permian Basin Transmission Line, SpaceX’s Turbine Fabrication
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we open with an AI stock update with a specific focus on IREN, CIFR, and HUT. Then, Lygos Finance CEO Jay Patel joins to discuss Strategy’s first BTC buy since June, bitcoin ETF flows, and whether BTC is really trading like a debasement-trade asset. Finally, we cover the Public Utility Commission of Texas’ approval of the state’s first 765 kV transmission line to the Permian Basin – including which data center stocks are likely to benefit – and SpaceX’s move into turbine blade manufacturing. Check out Dimetrics, the AI industry’s Bloomberg terminal. Track financial metrics and news for AI stocks, GPU rental prices, state-by-state data center pushback, and more with the compute industry’s most powerful dashboard. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive updates for all of our shows and content. We’ll be in Las Vegas from Sept 28-30 for Yotta 2026 – we hope to see you there! Use code BLOCKSPACE20 at checkout for 20% off. 👉CleanSpark (Nasdaq: CLSK), a market-leading data center developer with a proven track record of success. 👉Luxor, Blockspace's preferred mining pool. Start hashing today with Luxor! 👉Lygos Finance, Borrow against your Bitcoin, without compromising on custody.
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- BAugust 28 · 1 hr 8 min
IREN’s FY26 Earnings, Hive Buzz HPC President Interview, Warsh Jackson Hole Speech Recap
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we cover IREN’s FY2026 earnings, plus interviews with Hive’s Buzz HPC President Craig Tavares, Lygos Finance CEO Jay Patel on Kevin Warsh’s Jackson Hole speech, and investor Ben Pouladian on his takeaways from Hot Chip 2026. Check out Dimetrics, the AI industry’s Bloomberg terminal. Track financial metrics and news for AI stocks, GPU rental prices, state-by-state data center pushback, and more with the compute industry’s most powerful dashboard. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive updates for all of our shows and content. 👉CleanSpark (Nasdaq: CLSK), a market-leading data center developer with a proven track record of success. 👉Luxor, Blockspace's preferred mining pool. Start hashing today with Luxor! 👉Lygos Finance, Borrow against your Bitcoin, without compromising on custody.
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- BAugust 27 · 1 hr 3 min
NVIDIA’s Explosive Q2 Earnings, Trump’s Energy Systems Executive Order, Matt Prusak Giga Energy Interview
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we open with a TLDR of NVIDIA’s blow-out Q2 earnings, before hopping to Trump’s latest Executive Order on bulk-energy system infrastructure to screen for cybersecurity backdoors in imported goods. We wrap with an interview with Giga Energy Chief Business Officer Matt Prusak, plus the Rainey Center’s latest research on which arguments work best to dispel data center misinformation to win over data center opponents. Check out Dimetrics, the AI industry’s Bloomberg terminal. Track financial metrics and news for AI stocks, GPU rental prices, state-by-state data center pushback, and more with the compute industry’s most powerful dashboard. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive updates for all of our shows and content. 👉CleanSpark (Nasdaq: CLSK), a market-leading data center developer with a proven track record of success. 👉Luxor, Blockspace's preferred mining pool. Start hashing today with Luxor! 👉Lygos Finance, Borrow against your Bitcoin, without compromising on custody.
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- BAugust 26 · 59 min
IREN Stock Update, Ornn’s H100 Volatility Index, OpenAI is Hemorrhaging Talent, Moonshot in Talks with Hyperscalers for Kimi K3
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we open with investment bank price targets for IREN in anticipation of its earnings tomorrow, and Ornn’s Kush Bavaria joins to discuss their new H100 volatility index. To end the show, we take a look at the departure of key personnel from OpenAI this year and Moonshot’s reported talks with hyperscalers for Kimi K3 compute. Check out Dimetrics, the AI industry’s Bloomberg terminal. Track financial metrics and news for AI stocks, GPU rental prices, state-by-state data center pushback, and more with the compute industry’s most powerful dashboard. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive updates for all of our shows and content. 👉CleanSpark (Nasdaq: CLSK), a market-leading data center developer with a proven track record of success. 👉Luxor, Blockspace's preferred mining pool. Start hashing today with Luxor! 👉Lygos Finance, Borrow against your Bitcoin, without compromising on custody.
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- BAugust 25 · 1 hr 18 min
Macro Update With Jim Bianco, Needham Flags ERCOT Risk for AI Stocks, OK’s Industrial Tax Exemption Faces Vote
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, Bianco Research Founder Jim Bianco joins for a macro update, where we talk about interest rates in light of the Treasury’s leveled-up buyback program, inflation, and why Bianco thinks the AI CAPEX boom isn’t flashing warning signs yet. Plus, we cover which stocks Needham believes are most exposed to ERCOT’s Batch Zero shakeup, and how Oklahoma voters could upend an industrial property tax exemption law that has been on the books since 1985. Check out Dimetrics, the AI industry’s Bloomberg terminal. Track financial metrics and news for AI stocks, GPU rental prices, state-by-state data center pushback, and more with the compute industry’s most powerful dashboard. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive updates for all of our shows and content. 👉CleanSpark (Nasdaq: CLSK), a market-leading data center developer with a proven track record of success. 👉Luxor, Blockspace's preferred mining pool. Start hashing today with Luxor! 👉Lygos Finance, Borrow against your Bitcoin, without compromising on custody.
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- BAugust 24 · 53 min
TeraWulf Secures 482 MW for Justified, Morgan Stanley Sees Powered Shell Deal Uptick, Luxor Pilots GPU Curtailment
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we cover TeraWulf’s approval for 482 MW for its Justified data center in Hancock, including how much tax revenue the data center could earn for the county and the state of Kentucky, its job impact, and how it might lower bills for other ratepayers. Plus, Morgan Stanley thinks we could see a slew of new powered shell agreements in the final months of the year, with its eyes particularly set on Cipher Digital and Riot’s sites in Texas. To close the show, Luxor COO Ethan Vera joins to discuss their successful pilot with Bentao for GPU curtailment, and we wrap with a review of GPU rental prices on DI Metrics. Check out Dimetrics, the AI industry’s Bloomberg terminal. Track financial metrics and news for AI stocks, GPU rental prices, state-by-state data center pushback, and more with the compute industry’s most powerful dashboard. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive updates for all of our shows and content. 👉CleanSpark (Nasdaq: CLSK), a market-leading data center developer with a proven track record of success. 👉Luxor, Blockspace's preferred mining pool. Start hashing today with Luxor! 👉Lygos Finance, Borrow against your Bitcoin, without compromising on custody.
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- BAugust 22 · 1 hr
Keel Responds to PA Data Center Executive Order, and 75% of Americans Oppose Data Centers
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we cover Keel Infrastructure’s response to Josh Shapiro’s executive order for data centers and how Citadel has shed part of the book it acquired from Situational Awareness. Plus, the GOP is urging AI companies to clean up their messaging ahead of midterms as 75% of Americans oppose them. Check out Dimetrics, the AI industry’s Bloomberg terminal. Track financial metrics and news for AI stocks, GPU rental prices, state-by-state data center pushback, and more with the compute industry’s most powerful dashboard. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive updates for all of our shows and content. 👉CleanSpark (Nasdaq: CLSK), a market-leading data center developer with a proven track record of success. 👉Luxor, Blockspace's preferred mining pool. Start hashing today with Luxor! 👉Lygos Finance, Borrow against your Bitcoin, without compromising on custody.
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