Cipher Mining’s AI Play w/ Tyler Page and Chris Totin

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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Tyler Page (CEO) and Chris Totin (CCO) from Cipher Mining join us to talk about their strategic pivot from pure-play bitcoin mining to hybrid approach with AI/HPC data centers, SoftBank’s $50M investment, the ins-and-outs of building HPC data centers, and why they’re betting big on the convergence of bitcoin mining and artificial intelligence workloads.

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**Notes:**

• Cipher has 2.7 cents/kWh electricity costs

• SoftBank invested $50M in Cipher through private placement

• Barber Lake site: 300MW capacity with substation

• Texas has 397GW generation in queue over 5 years

• Construction workforce growing only 1% annually

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