AI vs Bitcoin energy war just got real, this video nails it!!

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Quick post after watching this Crypto Insider vid. The core argument is brutal but hard to ignore: AI is winning the fight for both capital and electricity.

In 2025, AI took 50% of global VC while crypto fell to 7%. Even bigger gap on power, AI data centres pay $200-500 per MW versus Bitcoin mining’s $60-130. That makes miners pivot fast: Core Scientific, Hut 8, Cipher and even Jihan Wu are shifting hashpower to AI. BTC production costs now sit above spot price, so without a big rally, the economics get ugly.

After the recent NVIDIA GTC robotics and Physical AI announcements, it feels connected. All those humanoids and agents we’ve been talking about are going to be extremely power-hungry, too. The same electricity that is used to mine Bitcoin might now be used to train and run robots.

Makes you wonder if the real threat to Bitcoin isn’t another coin but the entire AI/robotics boom eating the world’s marginal power and dollars.

Does anyone else see it? Is Bitcoin still the hedge that survives, or are we watching a slow rotation into Physical AI infrastructure?

What do you guys think? Cheers.

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coinney23 Mar 22, 2026
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The AI vs Bitcoin energy squeeze is legit. Miners are pivoting to AI hosting because the revenue per MW is 3–5x higher ($200–500 vs $60–130). Big players like Core Scientific, Hut 8, and Cipher are shifting fast, and mining costs are now above spot price for many. Bitcoin survives as digital gold, but mining looks set to become the “excess energy” play while AI claims the reliable grid capacity. The real long-term threat is the physical AI/robotics boom eating marginal power and capital, not an...
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SweenieX Mar 22, 2026
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AI workloads pay 3–8x more because they're compute-dense, continuous, and backed by trillion-dollar balance sheets. Miners like Core, Hut 8, Cipher pivoting isn't greed; it's survival. Even if BTC 3x's from here, the opportunity cost of not hosting AI becomes insane. NVIDIA's robotics push + agentic AI means power demand is only accelerating, we're talking gigawatts of new load in the next 3–5 years. Bitcoin mining gets pushed to the fringes: flare gas, hydro oversupply, off-grid solar/wind cur...
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EnergyPrecision_Lars Apr 7, 2026
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The comparison is interesting but worth being precise about. Bitcoin energy consumption is specifically for proof-of-work mining which is a design choice, not a necessity. AI training energy consumption is tied to model scale but inference is significantly more efficient than training and where most of the compute hours go in deployment. The trend lines are both concerning but for different structural reasons and they respond to different interventions.

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