{"id":568381,"date":"2026-03-13T15:53:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/bitcoin-miners-saw-the-ai-power-crunch-coming-and-the-nuclear-revival\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T15:53:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:53:02","slug":"bitcoin-miners-saw-the-ai-power-crunch-coming-and-the-nuclear-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/bitcoin-miners-saw-the-ai-power-crunch-coming-and-the-nuclear-revival\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin miners saw the AI power crunch coming \u2014 and the nuclear revival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjYtMDMvMDE5Y2U3ZDEtNmI3MS03YzJjLWJiMzktNTdiYmViZWFmNzQxLmpwZw==.jpg\" alt=\"Bitcoin miners saw the AI power crunch coming \u2014 and the nuclear revival\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>AI-driven data center demand is reviving nuclear power across the US, and Bitcoin miners were among the first to tap nuclear energy to run high-performance computing operations.<\/p>\n<p>Nuclear power is gaining renewed attention in the United States as artificial intelligence and data center expansion drive demand for reliable, large-scale electricity.<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest <em>Miner Weekly<\/em> <a title=\"https:\/\/www.minerweekly.com\/p\/ai-nuclear-renaissance\" href=\"https:\/\/www.minerweekly.com\/p\/ai-nuclear-renaissance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">newsletter<\/a> from TheEnergyMag, recent annual filings suggest that major utilities and power producers believe the United States may be entering a \u201cnuclear renaissance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The publication cited recent annual filings showing that utilities are linking the revival to long-term power contracts with <a title=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/ai-boost-jobs-trillions-dollars-infrastructure-needed-nvidia-huang\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/ai-boost-jobs-trillions-dollars-infrastructure-needed-nvidia-huang\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\">AI hyperscalers<\/a> such as Microsoft, Amazon and Meta Platforms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/ai-power-demand-nuclear-revival-bitcoin-mining\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI-driven data center demand is reviving nuclear power across the US, and Bitcoin miners were among the first to tap nuclear energy to run high-performance computing operations. Nuclear power is gaining renewed attention in the United States as artificial intelligence and data center expansion drive demand for reliable, large-scale electricity. According to the latest Miner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":568382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-568381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}