Bit Origin buys $11M in Nvidia B300 servers for Malaysia AI push

A crypto miner that spent years fighting Nasdaq listing rules is pivoting to AI infrastructure, betting that Nvidia's latest Blackwell servers can generate recurring revenue faster than Bitcoin blocks.

Bit Origin Ltd, the Singapore-based company formerly known as a Bitcoin mining operator, has acquired 16 Nvidia Blackwell B300 AI servers for about $11 million, marking its first concrete step into AI computing infrastructure. The servers, already purchased by the seller, are expected to arrive in the third quarter of 2026 and will be deployed at a data center in Malaysia under pre-arranged hosting and customer contracts. Bit Origin expects the equipment to generate roughly $360,000 in monthly revenue before operating expenses once operational.

"This acquisition represents another important milestone in the execution of our AI infrastructure strategy," said Jinghai Jiang, chairman and chief executive officer of Bit Origin. "We are pleased to acquire next-generation Nvidia Blackwell B300 AI infrastructure together with contracted customer deployment and hosting arrangements."

The purchase price consists of $1 million in cash and $10 million in equity via pre-funded warrants. Unlike many AI infrastructure projects that require years of development before generating revenue, Bit Origin's assets come with existing supplier agreements, customer contracts and hosting arrangements already in place. The company announced its strategic expansion beyond digital asset mining into AI computing and GPU services in April 2026.

The deal reflects a broader trend of crypto miners repurposing their operational playbooks — access to cheap power, data center management, hardware procurement — for the AI compute market. Demand for high-performance GPU infrastructure continues to accelerate as enterprises deploy large language models and AI-powered applications, making access to reliable computing capacity a critical bottleneck. Nvidia's Blackwell B300 represents the latest generation of its data center GPU line, succeeding the H100 and B200 series that have been in tight supply since 2023.

For Bit Origin, the bet is that contracted customer revenue provides a more predictable income stream than Bitcoin mining, where hash rate competition and halving events compress margins. The company, which trades on Nasdaq under BTOG, has faced compliance challenges including a 1-for-60 reverse stock split in January 2026 and a going-concern qualification from its auditor in October 2025. The Malaysia deployment gives it a foothold in Southeast Asia's growing data center market, where Singapore's moratorium on new data center builds has pushed demand to neighboring Malaysia and Indonesia.

The B300 servers, once delivered and deployed, will give Bit Origin a toehold in an AI infrastructure market dominated by hyperscalers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, which collectively spent more than $200 billion on data center CapEx in 2025. Smaller players like Bit Origin compete by targeting niche workloads and offering contracted capacity to enterprises that cannot secure GPU allocations from the largest cloud providers.

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