Bitdeer just dropped $4.7 billion on an AI data center in Norway, and investors are buying in hard. The Singapore-based company's NASDAQ shares jumped 23% after it sealed a colocation lease for a 180 megawatt facility in Tydal on June 29. This isn't some vague strategic pivot anymore. It's a signed, concrete bet that the Bitcoin mining-to-AI infrastructure pipeline actually works, and costs serious money to build.
The Tydal site goes live by December 2026. Construction is handled by Data Center Installations AS, a Sparc Group AB subsidiary. But this is really the endgame of a transition Bitdeer started months ago. Back in March, the company announced plans to convert the facility around Nvidia technology. The lease formalizes what was still mostly roadmap back then.
The numbers that matter
Bitdeer's AI Cloud division is already printing money. Annualized recurring revenue hit around $76 million with a 95% utilization rate, all from Nvidia GPU deployments. That's real revenue, not just capacity promises. To fund the expansion, the company liquidated its entire Bitcoin treasury earlier this year and raised another $325 million through convertible notes. The shift extends beyond Norway too. Bitdeer is converting mining sites across Texas and Washington into AI infrastructure.
Why this deal spooked the market awake
The stock actually opened softer, up just 5% in premarket trading. Then the full picture hit. Previous moves, like opening a Nevada manufacturing facility, drove stock spikes around 15%. This Norway lease pushed it 23%. That gap matters. Investors are treating this as a fundamentally different kind of catalyst than the earlier milestones. A $4.7 billion colocation agreement signals serious customer commitments sitting behind it, not just management confidence.
The broader trend tracks the desperation for AI data center capacity that keeps growing faster than supply. Bitdeer isn't alone in this scramble. Every major operator is racing to secure power, cooling, and rack space. The fact that a former mining company can command that kind of valuation by pivoting to AI says everything about where capital is flowing right now.
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