It is like ASIC manufactures plan to build up new machines to serve AI computation and operation.

I think it is so misleading to say Bitcoin miners or Bitcoin mining farms want to work with AI as if we say it, it sounds like Bitcoin miners will do like merge mining and rather than merge mining, they will do merge of Bitcoin mining and AI computation tasks.

I believe it is very overwhelming and it will harm lifespans of their ASICs, and it's not good in cost, risk and benefit. Information we have now about it is not like they will do merge of Bitcoin mining and AI with same ASIC.

I am confused, whatever is going to be compatible with Bitcoin Asic miners must be able to support Bitcoin mining algorithm, that's Sha-256 so tell me how one can use this as a server? Bitcoin Asic miners are limited since the algorithm is one, few coins are supported but they have to be on SHA-256 too.

What am I not getting here? This information is confusing, the only way this makes sense is if the Bitcoin Asic makers start making servers for AI programming and other too.

Maybe the Node side? Because I remember a UK based company called hashai that claim to offer AI-optimised crypto mining which makes no single sense to me, AI programming requires higher end servers, even to run a node you need servers too not Bitcoin Asic miners.

I am open to correction if anyone have one for me.

There's been talk of overcapacity in AI datacenters. Recent reports suggest China is scaling down and Microsoft is dropping some plans for AI capacity expansion. At the same time, models like DeepSeek are drastically reducing compute needs (and this will likely only accelerate). Thus, I don't know if there'll be great interest in repurposing bitcoin miners for AI.

Bitcoin ASICs cannot be used for AI.

However, the infrastructure - the power, the cooling, the buildings, the racks, etc., all can be used for AI processing.

The Bitcoin mining company, Core Scientific, does both Bitcoin mining and AI processing.

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/10/23/bitcoin-miners-are-pivoting-to-ai-to-survive-core-scientific-entered-the-race-years-ago

I guess that's true unless gas fees become so incredibly expensive that no one pivots to other chains to launch new projects, etc. I believe some recent trends, like airdrops, happened on chains like Solana, which probably required cheap gas fees. That being said, it's also possible that companies will try to promote them instead because they don't want their cash cow to die, just like they did with AI. CMIIW.