Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has finalized new guidance aimed at fast tracking data centers across the U.S.. The rules aren’t set-in-stone or enforceable yet, but the new guidance is the most significant regulatory action yet by the agency in the age of AI. For other news, we cover Hive’s new $220 million AI contract and its pending acquisition of a 32 MW data center in Boden. Sweden. For interviews, we welcome Anchor Watch CEO Rob Hamilton to discuss why Strategy’s STRC has fallen 10% over the last month from its targeted $100 price, and Bitcoin developer Hunter Beast joins us to discuss the latest in solutions for Bitcoin’s quantum computing threat. And finally. Luxor Head of Derivatives Matt Williams hops on to explain why AI data centers require a greater degree of hedging than bitcoin miners, and why the most recent round of GPU compute futures are solving for the wrong thing. 

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