Bitcoin miner Crusoe Energy announced a new multibillion-dollar deal with energy tech company Lancium to build a data center for artificial intelligence in Texas.

Crusoe Energy, one of the first Bitcoin (BTC) mining companies in the U.S. to use wasted natural gas to power its operations, announced on Thursday morning a “multibillion-dollar” deal with Lancium to build a 200-megawatt data center for artificial intelligence (AI) in Texas.

In the press release, Crusoe said the construction is just the “first phase” of its data center development which will expand to enable AI workloads “at scale across 1.2 GW of power capacity at the Lancium Clean Campus.” Once finished, each data center building will be able to operate “up to 100,000 GPUs on a single integrated network fabric,” …