AI's race for US energy butts up against bitcoin mining

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AI's race for US energy butts up against bitcoin mining
US technology companies are pursuing energy assets held by bitcoin miners as they race to secure a shrinking supply of electricity for their rapidly expanding artificial intelligence and cloud computing data centres. Those data centres are driving the fastest US power demand growth since the ...

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