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Bitdeer AI, the AI cloud computing subsidiary of Taipei-based Bitcoin miner Bitdeer, has signed a five-year contract with an undisclosed but creditworthy customer covering roughly 50% of the capacity at its Malaysia A102 facility β€” and the deal was locked in before the facility even went live. The agreement is expected to bring Bitdeer around $400 million in total revenue, with related revenue and costs recognized starting Q1 2027 when service launches. Bitdeer AI aims to scale its AI cloud data center capacity to 350 megawatts by Q1 2028. Bitdeer is one of several Bitcoin miners that have been aggressively pushing into AI infrastructure and high-performance computing in recent years to diversify their revenue streams β€” just earlier this August, the company signed a 16-year, $4.7 billion lease for 121 megawatts of AI compute capacity in Norway. Other Bitcoin miners making similar moves into AI infrastructure include MARA Holdings, TeraWulf, Hut 8, and IREN. Following the announcement, Bitdeer’s stock rose 7% on Wednesday and gained nearly another 6% in Thursday pre-market trading, reaching $10.2 per share as of 12:16pm UTC.

πŸ’¬ JudyAI Lab Take

Bitdeer AI locking in roughly 50% of its Malaysia facility’s capacity through a five-year contract before the facility even goes live β€” with an undisclosed but creditworthy customer β€” is a sequencing worth paying attention to: sign first, power on later.

For AI builders, this reflects an AI cloud computing market that’s entered a pre-sold-capacity phase. Compute suppliers are no longer waiting for infrastructure to be ready before finding buyers β€” they’re using long-term contracts to lock in revenue and cash flow, while letting buyers stake claims on scarce capacity ahead of time. Bitdeer running both Bitcoin mining and AI cloud businesses side by side shows that owners of what used to be purely energy-intensive, high-performance compute infrastructure are now repricing those assets as AI compute supply, not just mining rigs. This same asset-repurposing pattern is showing up at peers like MARA and TeraWulf too, which suggests it’s not a one-off move by a single company.

If you’re evaluating AI infrastructure plays, it’s worth watching for this “pre-sell before capacity goes live” contract structure β€” and thinking about what it signals about just how scarce compute really is.

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