
Terawulf targets 1GW AI campus expansion
Terawulf has acquired a major Kentucky data centre development site as the company accelerates its transition from bitcoin mining to artificial intelligence infrastructure.
The Nasdaq-listed company said the Muskie Data Campus in eastern Kentucky is expected to support more than 1 gigawatt of AI and high-performance computing capacity, with the first 500 megawatts targeted for deployment in the second half of 2028.
“The defining constraint in this market is no longer computing hardware; it is power, transmission infrastructure, and execution certainty,”
Said Terawulf chairman and chief executive, Paul Prager.
The acquisition expands Terawulf’s digital infrastructure footprint in Kentucky, where it already operates the 480-megawatt Justified Data campus in Hancock County.
Investors responded positively to the announcement, sending Terawulf shares up as much as 13.6% to their highest level in about three weeks as confidence grew in the company’s AI-focused growth strategy.
The shift toward high-performance computing is already reshaping Terawulf’s business, with AI compute revenue increasing 117% in the latest quarter and surpassing bitcoin mining revenue for the first time in the first quarter of 2026.
Terawulf’s expansion is supported by a $3 billion financing package arranged by Morgan Stanley and backed by Google, placing the company among a growing group of former crypto miners pivoting toward AI infrastructure as demand for computing power accelerates.