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Why does TeraWulf sell 50.1% of its joint venture while locking in a 20-year Anthropic lease?
Take-away Selling JV control turns a capex-heavy build into self-financing “project finance,” while a 20-year AI lease de-risks cashflows to fund HPC expansion.
TeraWulf is selling 50.1% of its joint venture to fund the pivot from Bitcoin mining towards AI infrastructure. By unlocking capital through this sale, estimated at around $530 million from an original investment of $450 million, TeraWulf can bolster its transition into a recurring revenue, high-performance computing (HPC) business model, and support further capacity expansion [1], [2]. Additionally, the lease with Anthropic for AI data center capacity indicates a strategic focus on monetizing and scaling these infrastructures [1], [2].