بیتفارمز پس از ۴۶ میلیون دلار زیان، استخراج بیتکوین را «متوقف کرده» و به سمت هوش مصنوعی میرود
Publicly traded Bitcoin miner Bitfarms will wind down its BTC operations and pivot to AI infrastructure, the firm announced on Thursday.
The announcement comes alongside the firm’s third-quarter earnings, in which it posted a net loss of $46 million, compared to a net loss of $24 million in Q3 2024 from its Bitcoin business.
“We continue executing on our HPC/AI infrastructure development strategy with a ful
“ما یک زنجیره تأمین کاملاً تأمین مالی شده داریم و برنامه داریم سایت واشنگتن خود را برای پشتیبانی از Nvidia GB300 با خنککننده مایع پیشرفته تبدیل کنیم،” بن گاگنون، مدیرعامل بیتفارمز در بیانیهای گفت.
“با وجود اینکه کمتر از ۱٪ از کل سبد توسعهپذیر ما را تشکیل میدهد، معتقدیم که تبدیل تنها سایت واشنگتن ما به سرویس GPU-as-a-service به طور بالقوه میتواند درآمد عملیاتی خالص بیشتری نسبت به هر چیزی که تاکنون با استخراج بیتکوین تولید کردهایم، ایجاد کند،” او افزود.
گاگنون اضافه کرد که این شرکت به دنبال “تعطیل تدریجی” کسبوکار استخراج بیتکوین خود در طول سالهای ۲۰۲۶ و ۲۰۲۷ خواهد بود.
بیتفارمز که ۱۲ مرکز داده در سراسر آمریکای شمالی با ظرفیت انرژی ۳۴۱ مگاوات (MW) اداره میکند، در توانایی خود برای انجام موفقیتآمیز این انتقال اطمینان دارد.
“با تقاضای مداوم ورودی برای سایتهایمان، ما از ارزش سبد انرژی منحصر به فرد خود، تقاضا برای نیروی ما و تواناییمان در توسعه زیرساخت نسل بعدی HPC و هوش مصنوعی اطمینان بالایی داریم،” گاگنون در تماس درآمد سهماهه سوم شرکت گفت.
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Bitfarms, a publicly traded Bitcoin mining company, is planning to pivot from mining Bitcoin to providing infrastructure for artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing, the company announced Thursday.
In its third-quarter earnings report, the company said it is currently in advanced negotiations for several sites to host high-performance computing (HPC) operations. It expects to make a final investment decision in the first half of 2025.
“We are pivoting from a singular focus on Bitcoin mining to a broader focus on high-performance computing,” Bitfarms CEO Ben Gagnon said during the company’s earnings call. “We are in advanced negotiations for several sites for HPC, and we expect to make a final investment decision in the first half of 2025.”
The company has been exploring opportunities in the AI sector for months. It converted a $300 million debt facility in October for the financing of a site in Panther Creek, Pennsylvania, which it expects will allow it to capitalize on demand for AI infrastructure.
Shares of BITF finished the trading day down about 18% on Thursday amid the news, changing hands at $2.60. The slip is part of an extended loss over the last month in which shares have fallen more than 51%.
The soon-to-be former Bitcoin miner is not the only one looking to AI for its next play. Last week, Bitcoin miner MARA announced that alongside record high revenues it would be expanding its services to include a focus on AI compute.
Many Bitcoin mining firms have embraced the growing AI opportunity in recent months, but Bitfirms is the first major player to say it plans to abandon its original business focus.
A representative for Bitfarms did not immediately re
Bitcoin has fallen nearly 3% in the last 24 hours and is now trading at $99,441 after falling to its lowest price in six months earlier Thursday.