Denton bitcoin mining wound down, converted to HPC
Company: Core Scientific - Project: Denton
The claim, verbatim
Core asserted that it wound down bitcoin mining at its Denton, Texas data center in late 2024 as part of a strategic transition to hosting HPC machines for third-party customers supporting AI workloads.
Source (primary)
In re: Core Scientific, Inc. — Entry #17: RESPONSE of Respondent Malikie Innovations Ltd (RECAP, court_filing)
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Quote: “it wound down its bitcoin mining operations in Denton in late 2024 ... as part of its "strategic transition" to housing "high performance computing (HPC)" machines there "for third-party customers" to "support[] artificial intelligence-related workloads."”
How we checked this
Checked on October 13, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The brief recounts Core's own transfer-motion assertions about winding down Denton mining in late 2024 and shifting to HPC for third-party AI workloads.
Confirmed in the source:
- Core asserted that it wound down bitcoin mining at its Denton, Texas data center in late 2024
- Core said this was part of a 'strategic transition' to housing HPC machines for third-party customers
- Core said those HPC machines support AI-related workloads
What we did: Read our cached copy of RECAP (https://archive.org/download/gov.uscourts.cafc.24297/gov.uscourts.cafc.24297.17.0.pdf) in full (62,406 characters, retrieved October 8, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms In re: Core Scientific, Inc. — Entry #17: RESPONSE of Respondent Malikie Innovations Ltd
Quote: “it wound down its bitcoin mining operations in Denton in late 2024 ... as part of its "strategic transition" to housing "high performance computing (HPC)" machines there "for third-party customers" to "support[] artificial intelligence-related workloads."”