Introduction: From Computational Power Involution to Billion-Dollar Infrastructure Monopoly

On September 18, 2026, as we examined the latest announcements from mining companies listed on the U.S. stock market yesterday, the mining industry has completely bid farewell to the early wild era, evolving into a "monopoly game" similar to traditional energy and heavy industry. The computational power of Bitdeer at 84.1 EH/s and CleanSpark's debt plan of $2.227 billion announced a brutally harsh reality to the market: the future of the crypto infrastructure track will be laid upon a throne forged by high-density capital, ultra-large grid protocols, and Wall Street financing channels, where ordinary players have even lost the qualification to look up.

1. Bitdeer's 84.1 EH/s Computational Power Great Wall: Crushing Difficulty Curves with Scale

The production report for August released by Bitdeer ($BTDR) yesterday is a violent aesthetic display of modern industrial mining.

In the macro context where the Bitcoin network's difficulty level is extremely high and single-machine profitability continues to be under pressure, Bitdeer surprisingly achieved a monthly production of 1,310 BTC, an astonishing year-on-year increase of 249%. The underlying secret of this counter-trend growth is simple: absolute computational power.

With self-operated computational power approaching 80 EH/s, plus a joint mining power of 21.6 EH/s, Bitdeer's total computational power of 84.1 EH/s has become an unshakable core node in the Bitcoin network. Under the enormous scale effect, the costs of machine procurement, power sharing, and operational maintenance margins have been infinitely compressed. Bitdeer is mercilessly swallowing the shares of marginalized miners in the network who have shut down due to high costs with this colossal physical computational power great wall, highly concentrating the issuance rights of Bitcoin within its data centers.

2. CleanSpark's $2.227 Billion Private Placement Bond: Buying Out the Future with Long-Cycle Leverage

If Bitdeer showcases current production capacity, then CleanSpark ($CLSK) plans to issue $2.227 billion in senior secured notes due in 2031, revealing the immense ambition of computational power giants for the future.

A debt financing exceeding $2.227 billion surpasses the total market value of many mid-sized listed companies. CleanSpark dares to bear such a massive interest burden, focused on its clear use of funds: to build the Sandersville data center in Texas and to refinance early equity investments.

The deep logic behind this is the "ultimate scramble for power and physical space." In 2026, whether it is Bitcoin mining or the explosive growth of AI/HPC (high-performance computing), the core bottleneck is the compliant large-scale cheap power network and the supporting data centers. CleanSpark leverages long-cycle debt maturing in 2031 to "land and build" on the energy-rich soil of Texas ahead of time. As long as the long-term expected returns from the data center (whether from Bitcoin output or future computational power leasing) exceed the note's interest, this $2.227 billion acts as a super lever to help it achieve physical infrastructure dominance.

The major announcement on September 17 is a clear declaration of the entry of crypto infrastructure into the era of giants. At this stage, the support for market value no longer relies solely on how many Bitcoins are on the books, but rather on whether companies can control the most hardcore computational power and energy networks on Earth. Whether it is Bitdeer, printing money with 84 EH/s computational power, or CleanSpark, securing land and building factories with $2.227 billion in fiat currency, they are both proving with concrete actions that in the foundational layer of the digital economy, to master the physical computational power and the allocation rights of energy is to grasp the ultimate pricing power of the future.

Data Source: https://bbx.com/ Crypto concept stock information database, compiled based on recent announcements from globally listed companies and SEC/TSE disclosed documents.

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