Hyperscale Data Sells 100 BTC to Fund $3B AI Data Center Project

Hyperscale Data, Inc. sold approximately 100 BTC and opened a bitcoin-backed credit facility on July 30, 2026, to speed up construction of its artificial intelligence (AI) data center campus in Dowagiac, Michigan.

The Las Vegas-based company, which trades as GPUS on the NYSE American exchange, has built its identity around bitcoin mining and treasury holdings. Now it is putting part of that treasury to work in a different way.

Bitcoin traded near $64,800 on the day of the announcement. At that price, 100 BTC works out to roughly $6.5 million. The company had disclosed holdings of about 1,106 Bitcoin in late July, worth around $71 million. After the sale, holdings sit near 1,006 BTC. This places GPUS as the 44th largest public company in terms of BTC on its balance sheet.

According to Thursday’s announcement, the new credit facility lets the company borrow against remaining Bitcoin at variable rates of about 4.5% to 5.0%. Management has not disclosed the lender or the size of the facility.

Building AI data centers takes money. Companies usually raise it by selling shares or taking on debt. Selling shares dilutes existing stockholders. Traditional debt can be expensive.

Hyperscale Data chose a third path. It sold a portion of its bitcoin and borrowed against the rest, using the treasury itself as a funding source instead of the stock market.

Executive Chairman Milton “Todd” Ault III said the company built its bitcoin position through mining and treasury management, and called it a source of financial flexibility. Chief Executive Officer William Horne explained that the move does not signal a change in the company’s long-term view of bitcoin. He described it as shifting one balance sheet asset for another.

The money is going toward a 617,000-square-foot building in Dowagiac, Michigan, that Hyperscale Data has operated as a bitcoin mining site for years through its subsidiary, Alliance Cloud Services.

On June 24, 2026, Alliance Cloud Services signed a 10-year agreement with a California-based neo-cloud AI provider for 20 megawatts of compute capacity, expected to go live in the fourth quarter of 2026. With two five-year extensions, the deal could bring in more than $1.2 billion.

The customer also holds an option for another 32 megawatts. If exercised within two years and extended through both renewal periods, total contract revenue could top $3 billion. The company has expanded its land at the site to about 83 acres and cited long-term power potential above 300 megawatts, pending permits, utility agreements, and financing.

Hyperscale Data is not alone. MARA Holdings sold more than 15,000 BTC for similar purposes. Bitdeer Technologies leveraged bitcoin to fund AI operations or infrastructure. Nearly all top ten publicly-traded bitcoin mining firms have included AI and HPC into their business models.

The pattern is consistent across the group. Mining sites already have power hookups, land and cooling systems. Redirecting that infrastructure toward AI hosting can produce steadier revenue than bitcoin mining, which depends on price swings, network difficulty adjustments, and energy costs.

The company has not said when it sold the bitcoin or at what price. It has also not disclosed the credit facility’s total size or loan-to-value terms.

Investors will be watching whether the unnamed customer exercises its 32-megawatt option, how quickly the initial 20 megawatts comes online, and whether Hyperscale Data draws on the new credit line. The company has also flagged plans to divest its private equity businesses by the second quarter of 2027, narrowing its focus on data centers and digital assets.