In the face of a profitability crisis, industrial-scale bitcoin miners are transforming their data centers into AI factories.

The crypto downturn has pushed a slew of Bitcoin miners to the brink of unprofitability, prompting operators to scale back the energy-hungry machines that keep the blockchain running.

Solo mining involves an individual miner independently validating Bitcoin transactions and adding new blocks to the blockchain without collaborating with others in a mining pool. This process requires ...