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CleanSpark shares surged as much as 22% on Tuesday after the Bitcoin miner announced a 20-year triple-net lease agreement with an unnamed, investment-grade global tech company to build a 175MW data center at its Sandersville, Georgia campus. CleanSpark estimates the deal will generate approximately $6.6 billion in contracted revenue over the initial lease term, with total value potentially reaching $11.6 billion if the tenant exercises two five-year extension options. Under the agreement, the tenant will install its own compute infrastructure on-site, with phased delivery expected to begin in Q4 2027. This move is CleanSpark’s latest step in expanding beyond Bitcoin mining into AI and high-performance computing infrastructure. Shares hit an intraday high of $15.10 before trimming gains to roughly 11% by midday, while the CoinShares Bitcoin Miners ETF (WGMI), which tracks the miner sector, was up less than 1%. The expansion comes as Bitcoin miners face revenue declines and tighter margins following the 2024 halving: CleanSpark reported a Q2 net loss of $378 million in March, with nearly 60% of that loss tied to the drop in Bitcoin’s price; back in February, the company also sold part of its Bitcoin holdings to fund operations and growth plans. Despite this, CleanSpark has maintained a net-accumulation strategy for Bitcoin, unlike many peers that have been selling reserves for cash (publicly listed miners reportedly sold roughly 15,000 BTC between October and late February). The company is scheduled to release Q3 earnings on August 6, with analysts broadly expecting a loss of $0.25 per share, compared to earnings of $0.79 per share a year earlier, having missed Wall Street estimates for three consecutive quarters.

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CleanSpark shares jumped as much as 22% on Tuesday — and the trigger wasn’t Bitcoin’s price, but a 20-year data center lease worth up to $11.6 billion.

This case reflects a clear trend: Bitcoin miners are leasing out their existing power and land assets to AI and high-performance computing players instead of building AI products themselves. CleanSpark doesn’t need to ship an AI application — renting out 175MW of power capacity to an investment-grade tech company delivers a more stable long-term cash flow than its mining core business. It’s a reminder for AI builders that the value of compute infrastructure itself sometimes gets priced and trusted by the market before the application layer ever does.

If your product depends on compute, it’s worth thinking about this: power and site location are the truly scarce resources in this round of the AI race.

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