THE MINING POD: TeraWulf's AI Power Play With Nazar Khan

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🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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How do Bitcoin miners and AI compute actually build out together? TeraWulf’s Naz Khan breaks down infrastructure builds and the recent G42 deal on The Mining Pod. FILL OUT THE MINING POD SURVEY BY CLICKING HERE Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Nazar Khan, co-founder of TeraWulf, joins us to talk about the company's move into AI data centers. We talk about the Core42 partnership, breakout costs to build a facility, and their 750MW Lake Mariner site development plans. Subscribe to the newsletter! https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com Timestamps: 00:00 Start 01:18 Introduction 04:04 Talen & Amazon 09:44 Core 42 12:28 Lake Mariner site 17:04 Memphis XAI site build 18:49 Ordering hardware 24:27 Fractal Bitcoin 25:02 Anchor tenant search 31:59 Build cost 36:46 Water use 38:32 Core 42 details 46:03 BTC mining skepticism 47:29 Managing mining & HPC 53:34 Hiring 55:38 2 technology stacks 57:54 Supply chains 1:01:11 Buildout complications 1:08:26 Core team longevity 1:13:35 Orangpilling Beowulf 1:18:42 UAE 👉 Fractal Bitcoin, Reduces up to 50% of your pool fee. No new hardware, no extra energy. And it’s easy. FB rewards go straight to your existing Bitcoin wallet address. Over 50% of Bitcoin’s hashpower is already merge mining Fractal. Get more from the same resources — start on Fractal today! 👉 Luxor, Leaders In Bitcoin Mining and Compute Power! Get game-changing mining results with Luxor Firmware. Boost hashrate, cut energy costs, protect your hardware, and maximize mining profits with LuxOS. 👉 Colorado Air Filter, Leaders In Mining HVAC Solutions! Pick from 6 different filtration brands from MERV 8 pleats to HEPA filters. Get your mine in top shape before the heat and dust of this summer comes! Contact sales@coloradoairfilter.com Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome back to The Mining Pod. Have a good friend on the show today.
0:04.1	Nas from Tara Wolf, really excited for this conversation. Before kick it off, go check out Fractyl Bitcoin.
0:09.4	They're the lead sponsor for the Mining Pod this quarter. You'll hear more from them in just a moment.
0:16.7	Nas, welcome to the Mining Pod.
0:18.6	Thank you. Thank you for having me at Pubkey.
0:22.2	This is fun.
0:23.3	I've been looking forward to this.
0:24.3	Yeah.
0:24.5	Thank you to Thomas and Germano for making this possible.
0:27.4	It's our first recording here at Pubkey.
0:29.0	I'm super excited to do more of them.
0:30.6	Well, technically we actually did two recordings in December, but it was just kind of like a one-off thing.
0:38.5	So we had penny ether,
0:45.8	the noted Twitter analyst on the show. So that was a really good one. But I want to dig into all things Terrible if obviously you're more on the engineering side of things, energy, energy and
0:50.7	engineering. So we won't get into too much like stock financial questions.
0:55.8	You can. You can. If you want to. Like I know you got. Everything's open. Everything's open for
0:59.8	discussion. It's prepping the audience for for, for, there's no stock picks on this show. I'm sorry.
1:05.1	Other than terrible. Yeah. Unless it's terrible. Yeah. So let's just kick it off doing a recap of stuff since Nautilus in October.
1:14.3	And then you guys had your key one call the other day, so we could probably go through those numbers a bit.
1:18.4	Sure.
1:19.3	Do you want to do intro?
1:21.6	Sure.
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