TFTC
How Bitcoin and AI are becoming leverage for builders and independent thinkers.
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Hyperscale Data (NYSE: GPUS) sold approximately 100 Bitcoin from its corporate treasury on July 30, 2026, directing proceeds to its Michigan AI data center campus while retaining 1…
Vida Global (NYSE: VIDA) began paying global team members in Bitcoin via Lightning on July 30, 2026, using Voltage Credit's revolving USD credit line. No Bitcoin touches the balanc…
Ofgem launched a consultation July 29 on a commitment fee of £237,500 to £712,500 per megawatt for data centre projects holding UK grid connection queue spots. The queue has triple…
The BLM approved what is believed to be the first-ever AI data center on U.S. public land in Boulder City, Nevada, recycling a 19 MW solar project's environmental review to greenli…
Brookfield and NextEra announced July 29 a $100B AI data center campus at the DOE's former Paducah uranium enrichment site, targeting 1.8 GW of utility capacity backed by up to 4.6…
Anthropic's unreleased Claude Mythos Preview cracked HAWK-256, a NIST third-round post-quantum signature candidate, in roughly 60 hours at a cost of ~$100,000, cutting the scheme's…
Michael Saylor posted a nine-post X thread July 28 declaring Bitcoin's consensus rules a constitution and grouping BIP-110, covenants, and block-size proposals as the same 'constit…
The DOE's NNSA selected Amentum on July 20 to negotiate a lease for a 1 GW AI data center at Savannah River Site, South Carolina, backed by approximately 2 GW of dedicated on-site…
Nvidia is reportedly in talks to act as financial guarantor for OpenAI's lease on a proposed 10 GW Ohio data center campus that could cost $500 billion to build, first reported by…
Imperial Valley Computer Manufacturing publicly pledged its proposed $10 billion AI data center campus would run on recycled wastewater, not Colorado River water. Those talks colla…
The five biggest hyperscalers are on pace to spend roughly $760B on AI infrastructure in 2026 while recognizing only ~$211B in depreciation. The other $549B sits on balance sheets,…
OpenAI's Project Camellia, a $20B, 3.2-GW campus in Effingham County, Georgia, claims one-third of Georgia Power's PSC-approved capacity expansion under a 25-year contract powered…
White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios publicly accused Moonshot AI of routing around U.S. export controls via Thailand and covertly extracting Anthropic's Fable model. Kimi K3…
Nine firms including BlackRock, Coinbase, and Strategy formed the Bitcoin Security Consortium on July 23, pledging $15M over three years for quantum-resistance R&D. Each member dir…
The DOE's largest Genesis Mission grant goes to a 32-partner consortium betting AI can cut nuclear deployment costs in half and compress build timelines by 2x. Energy is the bindin…
Blackstone is finalizing a A$4.3 billion syndicated loan for AirTrunk's SYD3 hyperscale data center in Western Sydney, a 400+ MW facility, as Bloomberg data shows 2026 AI infrastru…
Lightning Labs shipped Wavelength on July 21, 2026: a non-custodial API toolkit that embeds self-custodial Bitcoin payments in any app or AI agent, routes liquidity through Loop, a…
Franklin Templeton's Sandy Kaul publicly argued that agentic AI is the killer use case for blockchain and crypto, that legacy payment rails are structurally unfit for machine-to-ma…
AMD and Anthropic announced a strategic partnership on July 22, 2026 to deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450 GPUs starting H1 2027, with AMD committing up to $5 billion a…
A Nikkei Asia study found Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle are carrying $1.65 trillion in off-balance-sheet AI infrastructure obligations. The footnotes are larger tha…
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