We built an interactive reference architecture explorer to go with this one. Browse validated AI data center stack designs from NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and OCP — filter by workload, scale, and vendor preference.
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A 5-week-old coin set off a GPU mining rush — and it's not hashing. Pearl mines crypto by running AI matrix math, and Together AI already signed on.
Meet Pearl (PRL) — the AI-compute cryptocurrency:
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~200 MW (12.15 EH/s) of flexible load.
@HIVEDigitalTech's Yguazú campus is one of the largest single BTC mining facilities in the world outside the US 🤯🟧⛓️⛏️
New on Hashrate Index: the @OrnnExchange H100 Index.
What it tracks: the daily reference price for renting NVIDIA H100 GPUs in the U.S. compute market.
Why it matters: HPC compute is following the same path Bitcoin hashrate did a decade ago. First stop: price discovery.
During @consensus2026, @high_fiveguy pointed out that the ongoing AI/HPC pivot among PubCo's has created an opportunity for mid-size miners in the secondary ASIC market:
Monitor machine prices through Hashrate Index's ASIC Price Index, which reflects the current price ($/TH) of different Bitcoin mining ASICs grouped into four efficiency tiers:
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Latest in our AI ASIC Market series...
Everyone's writing NVIDIA's AI obituary.
Then NVIDIA bought Groq for $20B, partnered with Intel for $5B, and opened NVLink to every rival ASIC.
Not losing the market. Orchestrating it. hubs.li/Q04hDY3p0
Four 15-minute windows on the ERCOT grid each summer set Texas miners' transmission costs for the next 12 months.
Learn how 4CP works and why intelligent curtailment strategies turn it into a competitive advantage 👇
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Not every AI chip startup wants to be NVIDIA.
Tenstorrent licenses open chip IP.
Tensordyne bets on logarithmic math for 8x power efficiency.
See why they’ve actually got a decent chance in the AI ASIC market:
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Compute strategies during all-time lows in hashprice?
@high_fiveguy pointed out a few at @consensus2026
- Buying ASICs at cycle-low prices
- Software & firmware optimization
- Mullet mining