
AI Power Demand Is Exploding, But How Much Actually Gets Built
Former bitcoin miners like IREN, TeraWulf, CleanSpark, MARA, and Riot are pivoting to AI compute and power infrastructure, leveraging massive contracted backlogs relative to current revenues. Wall Street forecasts for data center electricity demand are far more aggressive than the IEA's, with recent upward revisions highlighting uncertainty and potential overestimation of near-term growth. None of these companies is generating positive free cash flow; buildouts are financed via GPU-backed debt, customer prepayments, and equity, not operating cash.













