Data center developers are zeroing in on a new target
By Andy Medici
Tampa Bay Business Journal
Published: Feb 10, 2026

The hundred-billion-dollar race to build artificial-intelligence data centers as fast as possible has found a new target: bitcoin miners.

Across the country, so-called “mega-scalers” looking to build data centers in the gigawatt range have unlocked hundreds of billions of dollars to support an unprecedented effort to increase both the intelligence of AI products and deploy them widely. That means companies such as Microsoft, Google, Oracle, OpenAI and Meta are pouring money into projects across the country.

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