Bitcoin miners saw it first. In 2021, TeraWulf partnered with Talen Energy to build a mine next to a nuclear plant. They draw electricity directly from the facility. Zero transmission loss.
Nuclear was four percent of Bitcoin mining then. Now it is ten percent. Sustainable energy including nuclear, hydro and wind is now 52.4 percent of Bitcoin mining.
Meanwhile, AI companies are just now discovering nuclear as the solution to their power hunger. Utilities are linking nuclear revival to long-term power contracts with AI hyperscalers. Microsoft, Amazon, Meta. They all want reliable, carbon free baseload power.
The narrative that Bitcoin is dirty energy does not hold up when over half the network runs on sustainable sources. And Bitcoin miners were the ones who made nuclear cool again.
Bitcoin led. AI followed. The infrastructure for clean power in computing started with Bitcoin mining. Not the other way around.