{"id":632283,"date":"2026-07-20T17:52:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/20\/hut-8-iren-deals-lift-ai-focused-bitcoin-mining-stocks\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T17:52:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:52:56","slug":"hut-8-iren-deals-lift-ai-focused-bitcoin-mining-stocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/20\/hut-8-iren-deals-lift-ai-focused-bitcoin-mining-stocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Hut 8, IREN deals lift AI-focused Bitcoin mining stocks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bitcoin miners rallied as investors cheered multi-billion-dollar AI infrastructure contracts, underscoring the sector\u2019s accelerating shift toward data centers and cloud computing.\n<\/p>\n

Shares of several Bitcoin mining companies surged Monday after Hut 8 and IREN announced major AI infrastructure deals, reinforcing investor optimism around miners expanding into artificial intelligence and high-performance computing.<\/p>\n

IREN, Cipher Digital, CleanSpark, Hut 8 and MARA Holdings each gained at least 11% in early Monday trading. The rally followed Hut 8\u2019s announcement of a 15-year, $9.8 billion lease for its AI data center campus and IREN\u2019s disclosure<\/a> of $2.8 billion in cloud services contracts with AI developers. Both companies began as Bitcoin (BTC) miners before accelerating a pivot toward AI infrastructure and cloud computing as mining economics weakened.<\/p>\n

IREN now expects its AI cloud business to generate more than $4 billion in annual recurring revenue by the end of 2026.<\/p>\n

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Bitcoin miners rallied as investors cheered multi-billion-dollar AI infrastructure contracts, underscoring the sector\u2019s accelerating shift toward data centers and cloud computing. Shares of several Bitcoin mining companies surged Monday after Hut 8 and IREN announced major AI infrastructure deals, reinforcing investor optimism around miners expanding into artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. IREN, Cipher Digital, CleanSpark, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":632284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-632283","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\/632283","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=632283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}