Bitcoin mining difficulty shrinks 14% from this year's high as plunging revenues force operators to pivot

Bitcoin hashrate decline nears 287 days as miner stocks surge

Bitcoin miners redirected $70B in power capacity to AI contracts as hashrate fell 15%; mining stocks surged 45–135% YTD. Energy scarcity, not compute, is now the binding constraint for AI—reshaping how CIOs evaluate infrastructure vendors and energy sourcing risk.