AI & infrastructure
Mining news and original analysis with dated primary sources.
Applied Digital selects Brookwood, Alabama for its Delta Forge 2 AI campus
The company places its previously announced 210 MW lease at a 160-acre Brookwood campus, with operations targeted for 2028 and more than $3.2 billion of combined investment.
Crusoe confirms Google’s Texas AI campus links to 531 MW of wind generation
Crusoe says it is developing Google’s Armstrong County campus beside two 265.5 MW wind farms. Construction is under way, but the release does not disclose campus load, opening date or total power supply.
Aligned Data Centers adopts Phaidra Prism as a read-only operations intelligence layer
Phaidra says Aligned will deploy Prism across its portfolio to analyse building, electrical and infrastructure telemetry. The release provides no measured savings, deployment schedule or facility list.
Hut 8 closes a $1.07 billion revolving facility for AI and ASIC infrastructure
Hut 8 says its new four-year senior secured revolving credit facility provides up to $1.07 billion of parent-level liquidity. No amount was drawn at closing, and the same amount is available as a letter-of-credit sublimit for development collateral and other corporate needs.
Cipher extends Barber Lake lease horizon to 20 years and over $9 billion
Cipher Digital says a lease amendment and a binding commitment for a following ten-year term raise Barber Lake contracted revenue from $3.8 billion to more than $9 billion. Delivery is now phased from Q4 2026 through Q1 2027, and Cipher bears the first $359.3 million of costs above the initial budget.
Sphere 3D becomes DarkHorse Technologies and shifts Nasdaq ticker to DRK after mining asset sales
Sphere 3D completed its corporate renaming as DarkHorse Technologies and moved to the Nasdaq ticker DRK. The company says it has divested its Iowa site and legacy mining fleet and now expects 50 MW operating across four Tennessee and Kentucky data centres, with further Kentucky expansion still proposed.
Starcloud says its second spacecraft will carry Bitcoin mining ASICs later in 2026
Starcloud’s CEO says the company intends to operate Bitcoin ASICs aboard its second spacecraft. The plan has no disclosed miner model, hashrate, power budget, launch date or pool architecture, and the official Starcloud-2 project page cited by the report did not mention Bitcoin mining.
Digital Chamber launches Compute Working Group, with CFTC derivatives response first
The Digital Chamber says its new Compute Working Group will bring power, finance, infrastructure and compute-market participants into U.S. policy discussions. Its first project concerns the CFTC request for comment on compute derivatives; no regulation or product approval has yet been announced.
Luxor launches a full-stack AI infrastructure business and opens a San Francisco office
Luxor is extending its mining-era energy, hardware, logistics and trading stack into AI infrastructure. The company names Tenki, physical compute contracts and OTC derivatives, but its launch release does not disclose contracted AI capacity or revenue.
Hyperscale Data proposes Patriot BTC for its Bitcoin mining assets
Hyperscale Data plans to place its Montana data center and mining equipment in a proposed Patriot BTC subsidiary. No separation structure or transaction has been approved.
Bitcoin Core 32.0rc2 is tagged for another testing round
The signed v32.0rc2 tag was created September 18. It is a release candidate for testing, not the final 32.0 production release; mining and pool operators should verify builds and stage upgrades.
CleanSpark prices $2.276B secured notes for Sandersville buildout
The September 18 filing prices 7.875% senior secured notes due 2031 at 98.5% of principal. Closing is expected September 25 and remains subject to customary conditions.