Some Bitcoin miners will move to work for AI data centers but some will stay and I believe that if people or companies behind Bitcoin mining farms are well prepared their finance for operations in long term, mining and holding most of their bitcoins will be better than working for AI data centers. With time, Bitcoin will have very good ROI that brings great profit for Bitcoin miners which manage can hold most of their bitcoins from mining.

It's not bad to work for AI data centers if currently and in the near future, it brings better income than from mining Bitcoin but because of better ROI from Bitcoin in long term, I would like to use most of my cash or fiat currency received from AI data center payments for purchasing bitcoin, and holding bitcoin for long term investment.

Partly yes, but keep in mind that the drop in hashrate would affect the rate at which blocks are produced, which in turn would reduce the mining difficulty as a consequence. Not immediately or truly proportionally, but it would act as a mechanism of self-regulation.

As for the fact that in the long run it would not compensate for the expected appreciation of Bitcoin, we all wish that to happen, but most large businesses, apart from Strategy and few others, seek immediate profitability, and I don't know if the owners of the big mining infrastructure will be willing to take such a gamble when the ROI of the AI alternative is better.

Edit: It seems that you have addressed precisely these two points in your previous post, while writing.

Difficulty isn't  really the problem here and the fact that we are experiencing increase in difficulty  means there's  is also an increase in hashrate and that can only happen when there's increase in more people willing to mine or willing to contribute more mining power. If that should decrease the difficulty will adjust. 

Imo, we will just have bigger pools overtime but definitely we will lose some miners to AI, that doesn't mean there won't be new miners.

 I think currently running an AI facilities looks more profitable and to some extent more stable for people to have a long term plan around, in fact some AI contracts may not immediately translate to revenue but since it can offer better risk adjusted returns for operators, they are starting to consider it for long term.
Coinshares’ Q2 2026 reports shows estimate of $1.5m per MW for AI when compared to $0.5m per MW for bitcoin mining, I don’t know how substantial this research was and I don’t necessarily think it’s more profitable for everyday miner but we have to acknowledge that Bitcoin mining depends on it’s price and other factors including halving while AI facilities can secure long term contracts which makes future revenue more predictable and relatively safer to plan around but contracts alone don’t guarantee profitability.
Then again if it’s long term security operators are after bitcoin mining shouldn’t be any less profitable than AI facilities if miners are holding some portion of their btc, the value of bitcoin is likely to become even more valuable, in the long term I can’t really say who will end up with more profit. AI facilities offers a more predictable Cashflow while bitcoin mining offers the potential upside when btc appreciates.

It has already happened to one of the biggest mining company last year https://www.mara.com/ This has included also sales of over 15K btc to finance their operation.
The news at that time was both interesting for AI investors (it has confirmed the interest by market operators) and for bitcoiners (that have seen a bigger player changing their business).

IMHO mining is always a "decentralized" process. It's really hard to make prediction about the market choice of a businesses.
The rise of difficulty could be seen also as "efficient" operator - an increasing competition. Meanwhile AI could just be solved by more and more efficient systems/models.

If they have a complete analysis and see that moving to AI data center servers is more profitable, they will follow that path.

That's how businesses work they are risk takers in the first place, so they take calculated risks that would help them.


Throwing away is pure stupidity... why not sell it?

Basically drowning in debt how? I thought running a data center is far more profitable than Bitcoin mining? Ai data center is still very early and to get into this very early is why many companies are going for it, the last time I looked into this I saw that Bitcoin mining is way more harder to run than AI data center.

It is more complicated than that.

As you most probably know bitcoin miners own specialized hardware called ASIC that is only capable of doing one thing and that is to compute double SHA256 hash of a block header. Meanwhile the computation required by AI is different (Matrix Calculations) and requires different hardware (special GPUs).

So for a bitcoin miner to switch to AI "miner", they'll have to get rid of the hardware they own and have made a significant investment in and replace it with other hardware. To make such a switch, these businesses require 2 things:
1. Massive incentive. The profit in AI sector has to high enough to incentivize them to make that switch.
2. Massive insurance. Switching hardware is a big commitment, it is not something they can undo if it didn't work out. So the AI sector has to show a solid future for them to make that commitment.

I don't think these two conditions are being met for bitcoin miners to make that kind of switch at large scale. AI sector is not yet that profitable, in fact they are losing money for the most part! Its future is also not guaranteed. Remember what happened the day China revealed its AI sector and crashed the US AI market? That can repeat.
Meanwhile Bitcoin's future is guaranteed better than AI future and the profit is also there. The miners aren't losing money like AI companies do either.

Also keep in mind that while bitcoin's difficulty is rising, its price is rising as well... in the long run.
For example ~8 years ago (2018) price was $3k, ~4 years ago (2022) price was $15k but today (2026) it is $80k+. How much will the price be in 4 years from now in 2030? Does AI provide the same growth potential? I don't think so. AI is currently in the over-hyped bubble mode and that is not going to last long while bitcoin's adoption is going to increase and alongside its capped supply ensures profitability.

@pooya87 you just said it all. One can not just update a software to turn a Bitcoin ASIC miner into an AI processor cause the hardware aren’t same, they are completely different. And again AI data centers do requires expensive cooling and 100 percent continuous power. When electricity gets so expensive Bitcoin miners can easily shut down. What a really see is that when mining do say that they switching to AI they are simply leasing their power contracts and also their land to a big tech companies.

I read the first post and at first I didn’t understand how ASICs could be used instead of chips for AI. Then it dawned on me - we’re talking, so to speak, about repurposing a business. So what’s so extraordinary about that? It’s a common phenomenon in business. You could also call it expanding the business’s scope.

Although people talk about the AI bubble, in the end, the computing infrastructure will remain and will be in demand even if, say, the bubble bursts in the coming years. Computing power will, in any case, be a good investment for the future. So, I consider this to be a well‑considered decision, and not just because the difficulty of mining Bitcoin has increased. Besides, the cost of electricity has probably risen recently (due to the increase in the cost of energy resources).