Auradine, the producer of computing gear for Bitcoin (BTC) mining and AI functions, stated it raised $153 million within the Collection C funding spherical.
The Silicon Valley, California-based firm additionally based a brand new enterprise group, AIORINKS AI, specializing in open requirements for addressing the cooling necessities of next-generation AI knowledge facilities.
AI knowledge facilities and BTC mining share similarities in operational necessities. Given the unfold of AI in mainstream use lately, knowledge heart topics at the moment are frequent in public discourse. That is essential for the cryptocurrency business as a lot of the issues associated to AI knowledge facilities will also be utilized to Bitcoin mining.
“The deal with Bitcoin and AI infrastructure locations Aurazine on the intersection of pivotal applied sciences that can reshape computing and power use over the following few many years,” CEO Rajiv Khemani stated in an announcement.
The funding spherical, which took over the Aurazine complete to $300 million, was led by Stepstone Group and included different contributions reminiscent of Bitcoin Miners Mara, Maverick Silicon, Samsung Catalyst Fund and Qualcomm Enterprise.