Mining Farm

Mining industrialised because the inputs (power and cooling) have massive economies of scale. Modern farms negotiate wholesale electricity, sign demand-response contracts (curtailing during grid stress for payments), and increasingly share infrastructure with AI data centres — the 2026 trend of miners pivoting capacity to AI workloads is reshaping network difficulty.

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