📰 Key Summary

Core Scientific’s Q2 revenue more than doubled year-over-year, jumping from $78.6M last year to $164.2M, driven by rapid expansion of its AI and high-performance computing (HPC) colocation business, while bitcoin mining’s share of revenue continues to decline. Colocation revenue exploded from $10.6M in the same period last year to $136.7M, pushing gross profit from $5M up to $70M. However, the rising stock price inflated the book value of unexercised warrants, forcing the company to recognize a $1.215B non-cash accounting loss — which resulted in a $1.15B net loss. Shares dropped more than 4% after the earnings release, though they’re still up 36% year-to-date. The company now holds fewer than 1,000 bitcoins, and colocation services have become its main revenue driver. During the same period, the company announced a partnership with AMD, initially structured as a 15-year contract covering 530MW of capacity across multiple U.S. sites, expected to come online starting 2027. The full scope of the partnership could scale up to 2.5GW of leasable data center capacity, with potential contract revenue exceeding $14B. Including existing customers, Core Scientific currently has roughly 1.1GW of total leased power capacity, with cumulative potential contract revenue north of $24B. On the industry side, IREN earlier this month also announced a $2.8B cloud contract with an AI developer, while Hut 8 signed a $9.8B AI data center capacity lease deal with an unnamed customer — all signs that bitcoin mining companies are accelerating their pivot to AI infrastructure providers in search of more stable long-term revenue streams.

💬 JudyAI Lab Perspective

Core Scientific’s Q2 colocation revenue exploded to $136.7M (up from just $10.6M in the same period last year), pushing total revenue past $164M — a textbook example of bitcoin mining companies collectively transforming into AI infrastructure providers.

This earnings report reflects a structural signal: the most valuable asset bitcoin mining companies have never been the mining hardware — it’s the power capacity and sites they’ve already locked in. When AI compute demand outstrips supply, these power contracts originally meant for mining become coveted colocation chips. Core Scientific’s 15-year, $14B-plus deal with AMD is just one example; IREN and Hut 8 announced similar-scale AI cloud lease agreements in the same window. For AI builders, this is a reminder that the compute supply chain is being reshuffled — traditional energy-intensive industries (mining, heavy industrial power users) are flooding into AI infrastructure, not just the cloud hyperscalers expanding capacity. This transition also reveals something interesting: when an industry’s core commodity (bitcoin) is too volatile, the ability to lock in stable cash-flow contracts becomes worth more than the commodity itself.

If you want to track the AI infrastructure supply chain, keep your eyes on power capacity (MW/GW) — it signals capacity expansion well before GPU shipment numbers do.

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