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The market continues to price miners based on Bitcoin's daily swings, even as VanEck's framework describes a business model migrating toward AI leases.
Key facts
- McKinsey estimates that global data center spending could reach about $7 trillion by 2030, with roughly $5.2 trillion directed toward AI-capable facilities
- MARA holds Bitcoin worth about 51% of its market cap, CLSK around 24%, RIOT near 11%, and HUT roughly 7%, while most peers hold Bitcoin at 1% or less of their market cap
- The International Energy Agency projects that global data center electricity consumption will roughly double from about 485 terawatt-hours in 2025 to around 950 terawatt-hours by 2030
- The near-term funding shortfall for that construction totals roughly $50 billion across the group, with long-term capital needs climbing toward $221 billion if the full pipeline of announced projects
Summary
01 VanEck says miners with signed AI and HPC leases trade above 10 times gross energized power, versus 2 to 6 times for others. 02 Wall Street is valuing leased megawatts as a separate asset class, even though only about 25% of leased capacity is delivered. 03 The test now is execution: miners need about $50 billion near-term funding, while tenant quality, debt, and dilution could reshape returns. A megawatt leased to an AI tenant now commands a different price on Wall Street than a megawatt sitting in a Bitcoin miner's pipeline, and the distance between the two has become the central pricing question for the entire sector. VanEck's latest framework for valuing publicly traded miners shows that companies with signed AI and high-performance computing leases trade at more than 10 times gross energy output, while miners with little or no contracted capacity trade at roughly 2 to 6 times that metric.