{"id":96965,"date":"2026-05-09T15:43:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T12:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=96965"},"modified":"2026-05-09T15:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T12:45:16","slug":"terawulfs-ai-revenue-nearly-doubles-bitcoin-mining-earnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/terawulfs-ai-revenue-nearly-doubles-bitcoin-mining-earnings\/","title":{"rendered":"TeraWulf&#8217;s AI Revenue Nearly Doubles Bitcoin Mining Earnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the first quarter, mining company TeraWulf <a href=\"https:\/\/investors.terawulf.com\/news-events\/press-releases\/detail\/140\/terawulf-reports-first-quarter-2026-results\">reported<\/a> revenue of $34 million, with approximately $21 million generated from high-performance computing services.<\/p>\n<p>Digital asset mining accounted for about $13 million, compared to $34.4 million in the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>As of March 31, the company&#8217;s total assets were approximately $7 billion, with liabilities exceeding this figure by $77.6 million. TeraWulf held around $3.1 billion in cash and cash equivalents.<\/p>\n<p>During the quarter, TeraWulf incurred a net loss of $427.6 million (compared to $59.6 million last year). This result was due to increased operating expenses, depreciation, asset write-offs, and higher interest payments.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the company prioritized diversification into the AI sector. In August, TeraWulf <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/terawulf-and-fluidstack-launch-ambitious-ai-project-with-googles-backing\">signed<\/a> a 10-year contract with the cloud platform Fluidstack, supported by Google. The miner committed to providing about 250 MW for a total of $3.7 billion.<\/p>\n<p>According to TeraWulf, the first phase of critical capacity at 60 MW at the Lake Mariner Data facility under a previous agreement with another tenant, Core42, began generating &#8220;significant revenue&#8221; in the first quarter. Subsequent data center expansion phases, now in Fluidstack&#8217;s interest, will start operations in May.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;The company continues to repurpose part of its outdated Bitcoin mining infrastructure to support more valuable high-performance computing tasks, reflecting its shift to contractual, long-term computing infrastructure,&#8221; the press release stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">IREN Accelerates Exit from Mining<\/h2>\n<p>IREN&#8217;s stock prices rose by 16% to $66 after trading opened on Friday, May 8. <a href=\"https:\/\/theenergymag.com\/news\/market-news\/iren-bitcoin-sale-ai\">TheEnergyMag<\/a> linked the movement to investor reactions to the company&#8217;s accelerated diversification into AI.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of the session, the stock price adjusted to $61.2, maintaining a growth of about 7.7%. The firm&#8217;s market capitalization exceeded $20 billion.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-78042e7602a139db-3931748282632853.webp\" alt=\"IREN Limited (IREN) Stock Price, News, Quote &#038; History - Yahoo Finance - Google Chrome\" class=\"wp-image-279794\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/IREN\/\">Yahoo Finance<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In its quarterly report, Australia-based IREN announced the write-off of mining-related devices and electrical equipment amounting to $140.4 million. The firm classified approximately 5800 Antminer S21 Pro units from Bitmine as &#8220;held for sale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;We are strategically repurposing our infrastructure from Bitcoin mining to cloud solutions for AI,&#8221; the company stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>IREN announced a five-year agreement with NVIDIA to provide cloud services for high-performance computing, valued at approximately $3.4 billion until 2032. The contract includes the provision of 60 MW of power.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">IREN and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nvidia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nvidia<\/a> have announced a strategic partnership to accelerate deployment of up to 5GW of next-generation AI infrastructure. The companies have also signed a $3.4bn contract under which <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24IREN&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$IREN<\/a> will provide AI infrastructure cloud services for NVIDIA internal AI and\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0SMzSYQjul\">pic.twitter.com\/0SMzSYQjul<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 IREN (@IREN_Ltd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IREN_Ltd\/status\/2052552103328129116?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 8, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The mining company also has a previously signed agreement with Microsoft for $9.7 billion to provide dedicated cloud services for GPUs over five years.<\/p>\n<p>According to the stated plans, IREN&#8217;s total controlled capacity should reach 480 MW by the end of the year, 1.2 GW by 2027, and exceed 5 GW after 2028.<\/p>\n<p>In the first quarter, IREN&#8217;s cryptocurrency mining revenue fell to $111.2 million, while revenue from AI services increased to $33.6 million. The firm expects continued revenue growth under the Microsoft contract and the commencement of operations for the acquired 50,000 GPUs.<\/p>\n<p>In May, Hut 8&#8217;s shares <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/hut-8-shares-surge-35-following-9-8-billion-deal\">rose by 35%<\/a> following a $9.8 billion deal to lease a data center in Texas for training neural networks based on Nvidia architecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first quarter, mining company TeraWulf reported revenue of $34 million, with approximately $21 million generated from high-performance computing services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"TeraWulf's AI revenue nearly doubles Bitcoin mining earnings.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,1137,1639],"class_list":["post-96965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-iris-energy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"28","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"TeraWulf's AI revenue nearly doubles Bitcoin mining earnings.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96967,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96965\/revisions\/96967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}