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Bitcoin miners’ pivot to AI and high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure keeps reshaping their business models, but Wall Street’s enthusiasm is clearly cooling off. A new analysis from Blocksbridge Consulting, published in TheEnergyMag’s Miner Weekly, looked at 25 AI and HPC infrastructure deals announced between June 2024 and August 2026 and found that the average stock price pop on announcement day has fallen from roughly 24% in early trades to around 10% in recent ones — with the median gain cut in half over the same period, even as deal sizes and values keep climbing. The report notes that annualized revenue per megawatt of contracted capacity keeps rising, suggesting AI hosting agreements are becoming more profitable, but as these deals become more common, investors are clearly weighing execution, financing structure, and long-term profitability more heavily than just the headline contract value. The shift in market reaction is stark: Core Scientific and CoreWeave’s first hosting agreement sent shares up more than 40%, Applied Digital’s first CoreWeave lease jumped nearly 49%, and TeraWulf’s first Fluidstack deal spiked almost 60% — but recent big-ticket deals have landed with a shrug by comparison. TeraWulf’s 401-megawatt lease with Anthropic only pushed its stock up about 5%, CleanSpark’s massive $6.6 billion AI hosting deal added just under 9%, and Bitdeer’s new Tydal contract briefly bumped shares about 12% before giving back all the gains by close. On top of that, the TEM AI Infrastructure Growth Index, which tracks publicly traded AI infrastructure companies, has pulled back roughly 28.5% from its June high — a sign that even as demand for AI infrastructure stays strong, investors have turned more cautious, a trend that lines up with the broader pullback in the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index.

💬 JudyAI Lab Take

The Bitcoin miner AI/HPC pivot story has moved from “buy the headline” to “show me the math.” Same theme, wildly different reactions — worth paying attention to how investor psychology is shifting here.

Blocksbridge Consulting’s analysis of 25 AI and HPC infrastructure deals shows the average announcement-day stock pop has dropped from about 24% early on to around 10% recently, with the median gain cut in half. The interesting part: annualized revenue per megawatt of contracted capacity keeps climbing, meaning these hosting agreements are actually getting more profitable — but investors have stopped fixating on deal size alone and are paying more attention to execution, financing structure, and long-term profitability. Compare early Core Scientific and Applied Digital pops of 30-40%+ to TeraWulf’s 401-megawatt Anthropic deal barely moving the needle at ~5%, CleanSpark’s $6.6 billion mega-deal adding just under 9%, and Bitdeer’s contract giving back all its gains by close — the “novelty premium” on this narrative is fading fast.

For AI builders working on products or business narratives, the lesson here: the attention you get from big numbers shrinks as the market matures. What keeps convincing people is verifiable execution and a real path to profit.

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