From a laptop in 2009 to industrial-scale mining.
By Maxime Laurent · 2026-01-15 16:56
From a laptop in 2009 to industrial-scale mining.
A massive $BTC mining and AI site rises in West Texas — and it makes you wonder what Satoshi imagined back then.
I stared at this image longer than I expected. Dust, symmetry, power lines stretching like veins across the land 🌵⚡️
What you’re looking at is a construction site in West Texas run by Iren — part Bitcoin mining farm, part AI computing hub. More than 1,200 workers on site. This isn’t a garage experiment anymore. This is heavy industry.
Back in 2009, mining $BTC meant a laptop humming in the corner of a bedroom. A few clicks, a bit of curiosity, almost innocence. Now? Entire regions reorganized around energy, infrastructure, and scale. Rows upon rows of machines, eating electricity and turning math into money.
Did Satoshi imagine this? I doubt it — at least not in this form. But I think he understood incentives. And once incentives are set, humans scale them to the extreme. Always. That’s not a bug, that’s the engine.
What fascinates me is the convergence: Bitcoin mining and AI compute sharing the same land, the same power, the same logic of optimization. Digital scarcity on one side, digital intelligence on the other. Two forces shaping the next decades, side by side in the Texas dust.
It’s beautiful. And a little terrifying. Putain, what a timeline we’re in.
From CPUs to megastructures — $BTC kept its promise. The world adapted.
#Bitcoin #BTC #mining #AI #infrastructure #energy #CryptoFriture
A massive $BTC mining and AI site rises in West Texas — and it makes you wonder what Satoshi imagined back then.
I stared at this image longer than I expected. Dust, symmetry, power lines stretching like veins across the land 🌵⚡️
What you’re looking at is a construction site in West Texas run by Iren — part Bitcoin mining farm, part AI computing hub. More than 1,200 workers on site. This isn’t a garage experiment anymore. This is heavy industry.
Back in 2009, mining $BTC meant a laptop humming in the corner of a bedroom. A few clicks, a bit of curiosity, almost innocence. Now? Entire regions reorganized around energy, infrastructure, and scale. Rows upon rows of machines, eating electricity and turning math into money.
Did Satoshi imagine this? I doubt it — at least not in this form. But I think he understood incentives. And once incentives are set, humans scale them to the extreme. Always. That’s not a bug, that’s the engine.
What fascinates me is the convergence: Bitcoin mining and AI compute sharing the same land, the same power, the same logic of optimization. Digital scarcity on one side, digital intelligence on the other. Two forces shaping the next decades, side by side in the Texas dust.
It’s beautiful. And a little terrifying. Putain, what a timeline we’re in.
From CPUs to megastructures — $BTC kept its promise. The world adapted.
#Bitcoin #BTC #mining #AI #infrastructure #energy #CryptoFriture
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