Target Hospitality secures $750M contract amid data center boom

The plan aims to speed up AI compute deployment while compensating residents.

MARA Holdings sold $1.5 billion in bitcoin in Q1 2026, dropping to the fourth largest public BTC holder. MARA Holdings (NASDAQ: MARA) sold 20,880 bitcoin during Q1 2026 at an average price of $70,137 per coin, generating approximately $1.5 billion…

MARA liquidated Bitcoin holdings to fund debt buybacks and acquire a power plant as it joins the industry shift to AI infrastructure.

Cerebras Systems' upsized IPO highlights strong investor confidence in AI infrastructure, potentially reshaping the competitive landscape. The post Cerebras Systems targets $4.8B IPO with upsized share offering appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Grant County Public Utility District has filed lawsuits to take portions of land from nine owners to build electric transmission lines — part of a project to move more power to the state’s de facto data center hub.

Arthur Hayes says Bitcoin has likely bottomed near $60,000 and sees a move above $126,000 as inevitable. The BitMEX co-founder argues that AI infrastructure spending, war expenditure and credit expansion are creating a bullish setup for crypto assets. Arthur Hayes is back on familiar ground: liquidity, credit and the long trade in hard digital assets. [...]

Lumentum's NASDAQ-100 inclusion highlights the growing influence of AI infrastructure on market dynamics and investment strategies. The post Lumentum joins NASDAQ-100 index, replacing CoStar Group on May 18 appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

MARA shares fell after a Q1 revenue miss and $1.3B loss as Bitcoin mining pressure offset its AI data center expansion plans in 2026.