Cipher Digital and Hut 8 Q2 Earnings, Ionic Digital CEO Interview, BTDR’s $4.7B AI Deal, ERCOT’s Batch Zero Hiccup

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! At the top of today’s show, we cover Cipher Digital and Hut 8’s Q2 earnings, plus updates on their AI data center builds. Following the earnings update, Ionic Digital CEO Andy Stewart joins us for a company update following its direct listing on the Nasdaq in July, where we dig into the company’s AI lease with Nscale and its future expansion plans. For other news, we cover Bitdeer’s first AI colocation deal (and why Anthropic could be a counterparty), how an audit is delaying ERCOT’s Batch Zero, and IREN closing its acquisition of Mirantis.

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