THE MINING POD: TeraWulf's AI Power Play With Nazar Khan
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🗓️ 27 May 2025
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
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.
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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.
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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
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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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