Research shows AI becoming more decentralized as Bitcoin mining centralizes, driven by edge computing growth and rising energy costs pushing miners to new global hubs

Foundry + AntPool holding >51% of hashrate already makes the "geographic migration" framing cope — pool-level centralization is the actual 51% attack vector, not which country the rigs sit in. Edge AI thesis only applies to inference; training stays hyperscaler-locked, so the centralization chokepoint just moves upstream. Miners bleeding ~$19K/coin while dumping $70B+ into AI/HPC deals aren't decentralizing anything — they're pivoting from one oligopoly to the next.

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