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Core Scientific announced a strategic pivot toward AI data centers in partnership with AMD, moving away from its crypto mining heritage.

This positions Core Scientific as a serious neocloud contender and demonstrates how legacy compute operators are repositioning to capture AI infrastructure demand.
Trade pressSlicast · August 11, 2026 at 14:32 UTC · US · Source: TipRanks
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