Luxor Technology, a company built on Bitcoin mining, raised $16 million in a strategic round led by CMT Digital, with participation from Canaan, MicroBT, Halo, Steelhead and angel investors. The raise follows the September launch of Luxor AI, which extends its energy, hardware, software and trading stack into AI and high-performance computing. The company said its hardware desk has traded $1 billion of mining ASICs, its energy arm serves more than 75 megawatts of load across two U.S. grid regions, and its cloud platform processed 1.8 million workloads so far this year as of September. Proceeds will go toward scaling the cloud platform, working capital for the AI hardware business, compute-derivatives trading and hiring. CEO and co-founder Nick Hansen said compute markets are converging, as the miners, power sites and capital that served digital mining now power AI.
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