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Economic analysis of bitcoin mining: hashrate growth, energy costs, halving effects, and miners' pivot into AI data center hosting.
ENRG began trading on NYSE Arca on September 22 holding 25 to 50 names. The rising data-center electricity demand behind the pitch reaches that book through uranium, copper and pipeline tolls. Two-thirds of its oil and gas producers are American.
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Global data center electricity use goes from about 415 TWh in 2024 to roughly 945 TWh in 2030 on the agency's April 2025 projection, and the transmission and generation to serve it take five to ten years against a data center's 18 to 24 months.
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CoinShares marks stabilised data centre capacity at $27m a megawatt and energised mining capacity at $3m, and the conversion cost in between explains why Core Scientific, Keel, Cipher and IREN are walking away from hashrate.
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Revenue per petahash rose almost exactly in step with the coin in August, so the miners' equity gap says more about how they are funding AI build-outs than about the margin on a mined bitcoin. Luxor's forward curve offers no relief before February.
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The bank sees $125,000 reclaimed by late 2026 and a 2029 peak near $300,000. Its own multiple compresses along the way, which puts the weight on miner costs, and it cut Strategy's target to $350.
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The listed cohort's realized hashrate fell 13.4 percent in six months against a 10.6 percent network decline. Two of its members now earn most of their revenue from something other than mining.
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