Blockspace: Anthropic's IPO, IREN’s $3.65B GPU Financing, Strategy Sells BTC, DMG’s 50 MW AI Data Center

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🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Anthropic has filed for an IPO and Strategy finally sold bitcoin for the first time since 2022. Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Anthropic has filed for an IPO as the public markets race for frontier AI companies heats up. Plus, Strategy just sold bitcoin for the first time since 2022, and Lygos’ Francis Corvino joins to give his take on whether Strategy is losing favor as Strive makes inroads with BTC treasury investors. We also welcome DMG’s Sheldon Bennett and Steve Eliscu to discuss DMG’s flagship, 50 MW AI data center in BC, Canada. And to finish the show, we touch on IREN’s new $3.65B GPU finance deal and a new executive order in Utah to regulate the roll out of AI data centers in the state. Check out our latest report, “What’s a Megawatt Worth?” where we quantify the trillion dollar opportunity for bitcoin miners venturing into the AI sector. Download here: https://megawattreport.com/ Subscribe to our newsletter to receive updates for all of our shows and content: https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com 👉CleanSpark (Nasdaq: CLSK), a market-leading data center developer with a proven track record of success. 👉Luxor, Blockspace's preferred mining pool. Start hashing today with Luxor! 👉Lygos Finance, Borrow against your Bitcoin, without compromising on custody.

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0:00.0	What's up y'all? Welcome back to Blockspace Live presented by Clean Spark. Charlie, it's happening.
0:11.2	It's happening. Anthropic is going public. They filed a confidential prospectus right as we were
0:18.5	prepping for this show. So we're going to start kick off the show with that.
0:21.3	There's not much information to cover because it is confidential, but we are going to touch on it.
0:24.8	Then we are going to move in to the giga chat, doing what he said he would.
0:28.9	That is strategy selling a very small amount of Bitcoin, potentially to send a message.
0:35.9	Following that, we have Francis Corvino of Lagos Finance on to talk about
0:39.0	this sale and also what's going on with Stretch vis-a-vis strives SATA, which is also a preferred
0:45.6	stock and how the competition between preferreds within the Bitcoin Treasury's landscape is heating up.
0:50.5	Following that, we have the DMG team on to talk about their new 60 megawatt AI deal in Canada.
0:57.0	Looking forward to that one.
0:58.0	We had the cathedral team on recently to talk about NowSphere 3D to talk about some of these opportunities for smaller AI sites.
1:08.3	So I'm really interested to see what DMG has to say on this market.
1:11.9	And then we will jump into Irin's new financing deal, multi-billion dollar financing for its
1:16.2	GP rollout for its Microsoft contract. And then we will end with a little data center hate.
1:22.7	Or rather, I should say guardrails. I shouldn't be too strict here. But Utah's governor just issued an executive order to ensure responsible rollouts of data
1:33.1	centers in the state.
1:34.5	Obviously, this follows a few weeks of kerfuffle over a massive data center spearheaded
1:38.8	by Kevin O'Leary in Box Elder County, Utah.
1:42.8	Charlie.
1:44.4	That's right.
1:45.5	Block space goes live Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 1 p.m.
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