Hut 8’s $5B Illinois Site, Kimi K3 Trained on H200s, GPU Rental Price Contango

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! For our lead story today, we cover how zoning for Hut 8’s $5B, 500 MW data center in Illinois has been stalled as a local council cancels a zoning vote for the project, and we also cover a Bloomberg report that Moonshot’s Kimi K3 AI model was trained on 20,000 H200s from Alibaba. For interviews, Luxor’s Michael San Miguel covers trends in the GPU secondary market, Lygos Finance’s Co-founder Matt Black joins to debrief us on a Coldcard hack that has resulted in the theft of 1,000+ BTC, and Compute Exchange CEO Carmen Li shares insights into GPU forward markets.

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