Core Scientific Pays $42M to Exit Block’s Bitcoin Mining Deal as AI Revenue Surges
Core Scientific (NASDAQ: CORZ) has paid $41.9 million to terminate a bitcoin miner contract with Block and its Proto unit, underscoring the data center operator’s accelerating retreat from bitcoin mining toward AI infras...
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