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Bitfarms Ltd.
Bitfarms builds and runs data centers that power two things: bitcoin mining and, increasingly, the expensive computing that artificial intelligence needs.
Bitfarms is a power-plant-and-computer-warehouse company. It builds data centers packed with servers, plugs them into cheap electricity, and sells the computing work those machines do. For most of its life that work was mining bitcoin, a business where the company earns digital coins rather than a customer's check. The company owns its sites and energy infrastructure, which is the part investors care about most: access to land and electricity is the scarce resource, and Bitfarms has been assembling it across Canada, the United States, Argentina, and Paraguay.
The newer chapter is high-performance computing, often shortened to HPC, and artificial intelligence. AI models run on specialized chips that need enormous amounts of power and cooling, and companies like Nvidia can't make chips fast enough for everyone who wants them. Bitfarms is repositioning itself as a landlord for that demand: it supplies the buildings, power connections, and cooling, and hopes to rent that capacity out to AI and cloud customers. That's a very different business from mining, with steadier revenue and real customers, and it's the reason the company is now described as an energy and data-center developer rather than just a miner. Mining is a brutally cyclical business. Bitfarms gets paid in bitcoin, so its revenue swings with the coin's price, and its costs are mostly electricity. When bitcoin is high and power is cheap, mining prints money; when the coin falls, thin margins vanish fast. The industry's big move was the "halving," which cuts the bitcoin reward paid to miners roughly every four years, and the most recent one in 2024 squeezed revenue per machine hard. That pressure pushed many miners, Bitfarms included, toward AI hosting as a second leg. The company has also been a battleground: rival miner Riot Platforms Riot Platforms built a stake and pushed for changes, and in 2024 Bitfarms fought off Riot's takeover attempt and a messy boardroom fight, then went through leadership turnover.
Bitfarms spends its cash on building out sites and buying machines, and it has leaned on selling bitcoin and raising money to fund expansion. Building AI-ready capacity is expensive and takes time — power contracts, construction, and chip procurement don't happen overnight — so execution is the whole story. The bet is straightforward: cheap electricity and ready-to-use data centers are worth more in an AI boom than in a crowded mining market, and Bitfarms wants to be the landlord selling both.
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