According to CEO Phil Harvey, Bitcoin miners will average roughly $1.50 in revenue per terahash every month during the current market cycle.
As Bitcoin mining companies attempt to diversify operations into data centers to bolster revenue, the headlines have been dominated by this purported shift to high-performance computing. Phil Harvey—CEO of blockchain data center consulting firm Sabre56—sat down with Cointelegraph to explain why these headlines are unrealistic.
Harvey stressed that running an AI or high-performance data center is substantially more expensive than running a crypto mining facility. The CEO said a typical commercial mining operation costs between $300,000 and 350,000 per megawatt to run. In contrast, AI data centers cost between $3 million and $5 million per megawatt to run—a 10-15x increase.
According to the CEO, a mining operation with a gigawatt of available power will only be able to convert a maximum of roughly 200 megawatts of power for high-performance computing needs. The CEO told Cointelegraph:
