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Blockspace: AI & Bitcoin
by Blockspace Media
Bitcoin conversations from the deep end, covering markets, tech, compute, and culture from hosts Charlie Spears and Colin Harper. Three episodes per week, on all podcast players, Yahoo Finance, CoinDesk and more. Drop us a listen and review!
Episodes
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Anthropic IPO Watch, SpaceX’s Soaring Compute Pricing, Wall Street’s Takes on CoreWeave vs. Nebius
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we open with four things to look for in Anthropic’s soon-to-come S-1 filing, which could be public next week. Plus, we cover a bank note on SpaceX that reveals the company is selling compute at much higher...
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Meta’s Q3 Earnings, AI Swarms Attack PHP Websites, 3 Takeaways from NVIDIA GTC Berlin
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we open with a quick note on Black October, an internet-wide cybersecurity incident where AI swarms are attacking websites through a vulnerability in the PHP programming language. For news, we also cover M...
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SpaceX Q3 Earnings, Soluna’s 50 MW Applied Digital JV, IREN’s 300 MW Spain Site
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we open with a quick breakdown of Spain’s newly approved 300 MW data center in Spain, and then we welcome Soluna CEO John Belizaire to break down their new JV with Applied Digital for a 50 MW site in Texas...
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IREN’s Childress Timeline, the Hidden Forces Behind AI Builds, Data Center CAPEX is Rising
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we open with rumors about delays for IREN’s Childress data center for Microsoft, as the tech giant has reportedly requested a full networking rewiring for the build. Plus, an interview with independent jou...
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CoreWeave Price Targets, AI Financing Risks, 2027’s 50 GW Buildout Forecast
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we open with two bullish investment banker notes on CoreWeave, as both JPMorgan and Wells Fargo remain overweight despite concerns over financing. Lygos Finance CEO Jay Patel also joins us to discuss wheth...
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Why Nvidia's GPUs Sell Out In Hours w/ Hyperbolic
Why is it so hard to secure compute resources? We break down the current supply chain and demand for B300 servers.This panel discussion explores the tightening market for high-end hardware and the reality of acquiring compute resources in the current c...
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SpaceX's Tesla Merger (and Flying Car), the Bull Case for CoreWeave, AI Isn't Stressing the TX Grid Yet
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we open with an investment bank note on CoreWeave and unpack the bull case for the leading neocloud despite doomer takes on its debt load. We also cover Tesla’s roadster demo, plus forecasts that say a Spa...
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Anthropic Q3 Financials, Nebius vs. CoreWeave Stock Ratings, Hyperscalers Will Gobble Up Neoclouds
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we take a look at Anthropic’s leaked Q3 financials and what they mean for the company’s IPO valuation could be. We also cover Rosenblatt’s buy rating on Nebius and why the bank favors it over CoreWeave, pl...
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AI Stock Selloff and CRWV’s Debt, IREN Proposes 900 MW Aussie Site, Keel’s New 80 MW Site
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we take a look at the market bloodletting as many data center stocks plunge into the red YTD, including why the selloff is happening now as debt spreads blow out for CoreWeave, Oracle, and Meta. We also co...
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Cipher Digital’s $850M Convert, Goldman Sachs SpaceX Price Target, AMD’s Fermi Backstop
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we cover Cipher Digital’s $850M convertible note offering to cover cost overruns at Barber Lake, plus its partial retirement of an older convertible note, and we also touch on Goldman Sach’s bullish price ...
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IREN’s New Anthropic Deal, Microsoft’s AI Chip Play, Architect’s Liquid Inference Compute Market
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we cover The Information's reporting that Anthropic has inked an undisclosed deal with IREN, how Microsoft plans to expand its AI inference chips with Maia 300, and the launch of Architect’s Liquid Inferen...
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OpenAI’s $70B ARR Explained, Firmus Scraps $5.5B IPO, SpaceX Comes for Your Phone Plan
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we break down why the Financial Time’s reporting on OpenAI’s $50B ARR – $20B shy of the $70B reported in September – looked at the numbers incorrectly. We also cover why Firmus is scrapping its $5.5B IPO a...
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Applied Digital Earnings, SpaceX Seeks $40B Debt Raise, Protests Erupt Over SpaceX Colossus Site
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we unpack Applied Digital’s Q1 FY 2027 earnings, SpaceX’s talks for a $40B debt raise, and the chaos that erupted in Memphis this week during a city council hearing for SpaceX’s Colossus data center. Check...
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Wells Fargo Buy Ratings, How Rates Will Affect AI CAPEX, Applied Digital’s 1 GW Finland Site
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we open with an interview with Lygos Finance CEO Jay Patel to discuss how the unrelenting surge in US Treasury rates will affect the AI CAPEX boom. We also cover the five buy ratings for powered shell stoc...
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Google Taps Constellation for 3.6 GW, Morgan Stanley is Bullish Bloom Energy, B. Riley’s New AI Stock Valuation Model
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we open the show with Google’s new power purchasing deal with Constellation Energy for 3.6 GW of nuclear capacity across PJM. We also cover a new Morgan Stanley note that makes the bullish case for Bloom E...
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TeraWulf Expands Muskie to 1 GW and SpaceX Mulls TSMC for Terafab
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we cover news that TeraWulf has expanded its PPA for Muskie from 500 MW to 1 GW, including what this means about how close WULF has come to a deal for the site. Plus, we cover reports that SpaceX is explor...
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How SpaceX Hit $121B in AI Cloud Deals. Plus, Crusoe’s Project Hyper Expansion
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! We’re back from Yotta with a shorter episode today, where we cover SpaceX’s rise to $121B in AI cloud contracted revenue, plus Crusoe’s plans for two $2.4B sites as part of Project Hyper. Check out Dimetrics ( ht...
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Anthropic's IPO Analysis, Cipher's Site Extension & Building Compute Markets
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Cipher Digital’s $5.2B Fluidstack Extension, Nscale’s $35B IPO, Oracle’s “Hell or High Water” Project Jupiter
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! At the top of the show, we cover Cipher Digital’s $5.2B, 10-year extension with Fluidstack, which brings the Barber Lake site’s contracted revenue to $9B. Then, Dark Horse CEO Joel Block joins the show to discuss...
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Oracle’s $165B Project Jupiter Delay, SemiAnalysis’ ClusterMAX Ratings, a Drone’s Eye View of CIFR’s Black Pearl, Luxor’s AI Suite
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Oracle has sent a force majeure notice to the developer of Project Jupiter, a $165B data center project in New Mexico as part of Project Stargate, as the site’s development continues to be restrained by permittin...
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TLSA is SPCX’s Key to the AI Race, Another Look at Data Center Noise, GPU Rates Hit ATH
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Morgan Stanley just put a $300 price target on SpaceX, arguing that the company’s real edge is AI – and how its sister company, Tesla, makes that edge particularly sharp. We also take a look at Nic Carter’s lates...
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Rothschild Rates IREN Above CRWV/NBIS, Texas Freezes Data Center Permits, CLSK Closes $2.276B Note
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Rothschild & Co Redburn has initiated coverage of neoclouds, and in its first ratings, it placed a hold on IREN and sells on CoreWeave and Nebius. Also, Texas is pumping the breaks on data centers even more with ...
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Hut 8 Stock Price Update, Morgan Stanley Sees 72 GW Deficit in 2029, AWS Block’s Meta’s Muse, New Era Up 30% on Vista Deal
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Stocks are ripping, so we open today with a stock price update on Hut 8, Galaxy Digital, IREN, and others. From there, we unpack Morgan Stanley’s latest AI stock report, where the bank forecasts a 34% deficit in ...
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IREN and CIFR Price Targets, Anthropic and OpenAI Seek 20-30MW Sites, Data Centers Take Collateral Damage in Middle East and Ukraine
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we open with reports that Anthropic and OpenAI are expanding their power search to sub-50 MW sites, plus bullish investment bank forecasts for IREN and Cipher, and we close with a note on how the wars in I...
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CleanSpark’s $6.6B Meta Deal, Rune Raises $40M for Solar Farm Data Centers, Moratoriums Haven’t Killed the AI Trade (Yet)
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! CleanSpark rose 6% in early trading hours today on news that it inked its $6.6B Sandersville AI deal with Meta, the first revelation of the site’s tenant, who also holds exclusivity rights to CleanSpark’s Sealy a...
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Cipher Digital Stock Price and Batch Zero Update, How the Fed Hike Will Affect Neoclouds, Tech Titans Battle for the Soul of AI
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Cipher Digital surged today on clarification of its Batch Zero classifications, which includes 1,100 MW of base load and 2,100 MW of studied load. We also dive into how the Fed’s rate hike will impact neocloud an...
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MARA Stock Price and Batch Zero Update, Crusoe’s Perplexity Deal and Switchgear Factory, Meta’s AI ASIC Play
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we open with a stock price update for MARA following its Batch Zero base load and studied load classifications, and we also cover Soluna’s additional base load classification for its 100 MW Dorothy site. P...
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AI Stocks Tumble, Frontier Lab CEOs Call for AI Slowdown, and Ellison Pulls the Plug on 50M ORCL Sale Amid Layoffs
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we look at the winners – and mostly losers – from today’s AI stock sell off as the market reacts to top AI lab CEOs calling for a slowdown to the pace of frontier lab development. On that note, we unpack w...
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Hut 8 Stock Price Update, Fluidstack Taps Pentagon for $5B, Chinese LLMs Were Claude All Along
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we look at why Hut 8 is leading a rally in powered shells following its Batch Zero approval, wondering if investors see downstream benefits for Hut 8 from our second news topic, where Fluidstack is reporte...
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Cipher Digital, Core Scientific, Ionic Digital Batch Zero Updates and SpaceX Taps Rocket Scientists for Data Center Construction
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we open with a stock update, focusing on Cipher Digital, Core Scientific, and Ionic Digital’s announcements for their Batch Zero designations. We also cover how SpaceX is rehauling its data center construc...
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Galaxy Digital and CleanSpark Batch Zero Approvals, How to Secure a Data Center, Anthropic Thinks AI Could Kill Us All
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we open with a stock update, focusing on Galaxy Digital and CleanSpark’s announcements for base load and studied load classification under ERCOT’s Batch Zero. For interviews, Acre Security CEO Kumar Sokka ...
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IREN Stock Price Update and Batch Zero Approval, Palantir Taps Nebius for Sovereign AI, Soluna Batch Zero Approval, Data Centers Enrich WV
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we open with a stock update – data center and AI stocks are ripping, and IREN, CIFR, CLSK, WULF, HUT, MARA, and other are up significantly, particularly those likely to have received favorable approvals fo...
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Crusoe’s $13B Deal with Jane Street, ERCOT Batch Zero Classifications, Luxor’s GPU Price Index
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we cover Crusoe’s $13B deal with Jane Street as the trading firm builds out its AI cloud business for internal use. For interviews, Luxor’s Kaan Farahani joins to discuss their latest addition to Hashrate ...
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Cipher’s 2.5 GW Gas Pipeline, IREN’s $2.8B GPU Financing, Nscale’s IPO and $103B Contract Backlog
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we break down Cipher Digital’s plan to build 2.5 GW of gas pipelines to expedite its data center buildouts, including which sites will most likely benefit from the behind-the-meter generation. We also cove...
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SB Energy IPO Analysis, Google Taps 396MW of Geothermal with Fervo, Bitdeer’s $100M Landgrab for Rockdale
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we break down SB Energy’s IPO plans – with some bankers saying the stock could fetch a $50B valuation despite not yet having an active data center – and dig into the nature of the intertwined financial rel...
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Anthropic’s $35B Lambda Deal, ERCOT Misses Batch Zero Baseload Deadline, Anti-AI Politicians Are Getting Rich from AI Stocks
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we open with Anthropic’s $35B deal with Lambda for AI cloud compute at Hut 8’s Beacon Point data center, and then we touch on ERCOT missing yesterday’s deadline for a decision on conditional base load clas...
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IREN, CIFR, HUT Stock Price Updates, PUCT Approves Permian Basin Transmission Line, SpaceX’s Turbine Fabrication
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we open with an AI stock update with a specific focus on IREN, CIFR, and HUT. Then, Lygos Finance CEO Jay Patel joins to discuss Strategy’s first BTC buy since June, bitcoin ETF flows, and whether BTC is r...
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IREN’s FY26 Earnings, Hive Buzz HPC President Interview, Warsh Jackson Hole Speech Recap
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we cover IREN’s FY2026 earnings, plus interviews with Hive’s Buzz HPC President Craig Tavares, Lygos Finance CEO Jay Patel on Kevin Warsh’s Jackson Hole speech, and investor Ben Pouladian on his takeaways ...
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NVIDIA’s Explosive Q2 Earnings, Trump’s Energy Systems Executive Order, Matt Prusak Giga Energy Interview
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we open with a TLDR of NVIDIA’s blow-out Q2 earnings, before hopping to Trump’s latest Executive Order on bulk-energy system infrastructure to screen for cybersecurity backdoors in imported goods. We wrap ...
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IREN Stock Update, Ornn’s H100 Volatility Index, OpenAI is Hemorrhaging Talent, Moonshot in Talks with Hyperscalers for Kimi K3
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we open with investment bank price targets for IREN in anticipation of its earnings tomorrow, and Ornn’s Kush Bavaria joins to discuss their new H100 volatility index. To end the show, we take a look at th...
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Macro Update With Jim Bianco, Needham Flags ERCOT Risk for AI Stocks, OK’s Industrial Tax Exemption Faces Vote
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, Bianco Research Founder Jim Bianco joins for a macro update, where we talk about interest rates in light of the Treasury’s leveled-up buyback program, inflation, and why Bianco thinks the AI CAPEX boom isn...
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TeraWulf Secures 482 MW for Justified, Morgan Stanley Sees Powered Shell Deal Uptick, Luxor Pilots GPU Curtailment
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we cover TeraWulf’s approval for 482 MW for its Justified data center in Hancock, including how much tax revenue the data center could earn for the county and the state of Kentucky, its job impact, and how...
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Keel Responds to PA Data Center Executive Order, and 75% of Americans Oppose Data Centers
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we cover Keel Infrastructure’s response to Josh Shapiro’s executive order for data centers and how Citadel has shed part of the book it acquired from Situational Awareness. Plus, the GOP is urging AI compa...
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TPUC’s Batch Zero Meeting, Soluna CEO Interview, Ionic Digital’s Q2 Earnings
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we give an update on the Texas Public Utilities Commission’s meeting on ERCOT’s new Batch Zero timeline, including what it means for potential base load consideration for Hut 8 and Cipher Digital. For inte...
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Josh Shapiro’s Data Center Executive Order (and What it Means for KEEL, NBIS), Plus a Look at National Data Center Pushback
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today’s show centers on a single theme: the data center culture war. We open with a deep dive into Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro’s new executive order that overhauls the data center approval process in the s...
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Loudon County’s $1.4B Data Center Boon, Vineland Approves DataOne/Nebius Expansion, Crusoe Eyes IPO
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we open with a note on Loudon County, the richest county in America which also happens to house 6-8% of all US data centers, from which it will reap $1.4B in property taxes this year. For interviews, we we...
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Hive Earnings and CFO Interview, NVIDIA Backstops $500B OpenAI Site, Blue Energy’s 2.5 GW Gas/Nuke Build for Crusoe
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we unpack Hive’s Q1 FY2027 earnings and take a look at their new $350M, 5-year AI cloud deal. For other interviews, Lygos Finance CEO Jay Patel joins us to break down NVIDIA’s latest backstop for OpenAI’s ...
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Inside CoreWeave's Q2 Results and Enterprise AI Contracts w/ Brannin McBee
For today's additional bonus episode, we sit down with CoreWeave Co-founder and CDO Brannin McBee to unpack the company's Q2 results, the future of its enterprise AI cloud computing line, $10.4B ARR milestone, and how its 2029 A100 deal is changing the...
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An Update on Keel's AI Lease Negotiations, Moses Lake, Sharon/Panther Creek Permitting w/ Ben Gagnon
For today's bonus show, we sit down with Keel CEO Ben Gagnon for an update on Keel's AI lease negotiations, the remaining permitting process for its Panther Creek and Sharon data centers, and what terms the company is seeking for its first AI leases. C...
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Soluna Q2 Earnings and CFO Interview, NBIS Hits a Snag in NJ, What it Takes to Build Compute Futures
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we unpack Soluna’s Q2 earnings and welcome the company’s CFO Mike Picchi to discuss the results, plus we cover Hunterbrook’s latest report that Nebius’ infrastructure provider in Vineland, NJ, DataOne, has...
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Bitcoin conversations from the deep end, covering markets, tech, compute, and culture from hosts Charlie Spears and Colin Harper.
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