The price of Staying stuck in mud and corporate bitcoin finance ministry has undergone a full boom-and-bust cycle in a few weeks, but BTC mine workers have been in greater bulls thanks to artificial intelligence and high performance computing as a new growth driver.
The action continued on Wednesday, when the sector released big winnings, led by Riot Platforms (Riot) and Iren (Iren), each of approx. 13%. Hytte 8 (Cabin), Cleanspark (CLSK) and Bit Digital (BTBT) were closer to 6%. From Low’s April, Iren has been the prominent artist and achieved almost 500%.
Burning the momentum today is the news that Openai, Oracle (ORCL) and Softbank accelerate their Stargate AI infrastructure program with five new US data center pages. The expansion brings almost 7 gigawatts of planned capacity and over $ 400 billion in investments with a goal to reach 10 gigawatts by the end of 2025, according to Open AI.
The pure speculation scale for AI demand could be to enter the “bubble area”, but AI mine workers are one of the largest recipients of the capital and infrastructure needed to accommodate these massive energy needs.
Even traditional Pure-Play BTC Mine Workers such as Riot Platforms (Riot) and Cleanspark (CLSK) are now moving into AI and high-performance computing, and their stocks have both benefited with Riot up 85% years to date and CLSK ahead 55%. Interestingly, in recent months, Mara Holdings (Mara) turned to more of a Bitcoin Treasury game, and it has been underpinned most of the sector and won only 10% in 2025.
