Episode

How to Build an AI Data Center from Scratch

Podcast: Blockspace: AI & Bitcoin
Published: May 5, 2026
Duration seconds: 2408
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Summary

Taylor Monnig, CTO of CleanSpark joins us to talk about the company's transition from Bitcoin mining into high-performance computing and AI. He explains the engineering shift from "surviving" in the mining space to "thriving" in AI data centers, the st...