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THE MINING POD: TeraWulf's AI Power Play With Nazar Khan


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How do Bitcoin miners and AI compute actually build out together? TeraWulf’s Naz Khan breaks down infrastructure builds and the recent G42 deal on The Mining Pod.


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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Nazar Khan, co-founder of TeraWulf, joins us to talk about the company's move into AI data centers. We talk about the Core42 partnership, breakout costs to build a facility, and their 750MW Lake Mariner site development plans.


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Timestamps:

00:00 Start

01:18 Introduction

04:04 Talen & Amazon

09:44 Core 42

12:28 Lake Mariner site

17:04 Memphis XAI site build

18:49 Ordering hardware

24:27 Fractal Bitcoin

25:02 Anchor tenant search

31:59 Build cost

36:46 Water use

38:32 Core 42 details

46:03 BTC mining skepticism

47:29 Managing mining & HPC

53:34 Hiring

55:38 2 technology stacks

57:54 Supply chains

1:01:11 Buildout complications

1:08:26 Core team longevity

1:13:35 Orangpilling Beowulf

1:18:42 UAE


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