Bitcoin miners have what artificial intelligence purveyors need: power. A number of the long-suffering mining companies now find themselves with the opportunity to sell data-center services to free-spending AI customers thanks to their access to electricity.

Many of the miners have built their operations to take advantage of inexpensive commercial power in places like Texas and North Dakota. AI providers need a lot of juice—a ChatGPT query takes 10 times the energy of a Google search—and 14 pub