BTC Price Hits $80,000 as Bitcoin Miners Dodge Data Center Backlash Crushing AI Stocks And BTC Just Hit $80,000

A political fight over data center construction is quietly reshaping which crypto-adjacent equities win and lose this summer, and Bitcoin miners are ending up on the right side of it.Governors from New York to Texas have moved to slow or block new data center construction amid rising anti-AI political backlash, hammering stocks like Constellation Energy and NRG in the process.

Bitcoin miners running their own power infrastructure, names like Cipher Digital and Hut 8, are positioned to sidestep the fallout entirely.

Vertically integrated energy means miners do not face the same zoning and grid-approval headwinds currently choking AI data center buildout.

Greg Abbott on the AI data center boom in Texas: "they basically dug their own grave for the problem that's been caused for them"this is the Texas governor on why he just froze every new data center in the state – live on this week, aug 23"I have pressed pause on any new data… https://t.co/sFmGTLLjfj pic.twitter.com/ImU8q6hv8V— st1ne (@SolSt1ne) August 24, 2026 That divergence matters.