A bitcoin-mining business that appeared left for dead after the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire is being resuscitated to serve the artificial-intelligence build-out.
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SWI Group agreed to pay $500 million for an economic share of nearly 77% in Genesis Digital Assets, an operator linked to former Bitcoin mining operations associated with FTX. The plan aims to convert facilities with access to 1.3 GW of energy into infrastructure for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing, although that electrical capacity is not yet equivalent to AI-ready data centers.