Bitdeer expanded its self-mining capacity to about 70 exahashes per second by the end of March 2026. The update placed the company ahead of other listed Bitcoin miners by self-mining compute power.
In its Wednesday filing, Bitdeer said total hashrate under management rose to 78.1 EH/s. That figure includes Bitdeer’s own mining fleet and hosted machines across its wider platform.
Bitdeer grows self-mining fleet in March
In March 2026, Bitdeer claimed to have mined 661 self-mined Bitcoin. This was a 480 percent increase over the same month last year as the company continued to increase its mining fleet with more machines.
The company reported that it currently operates approximately 262,000 rigs. Of that number, approximately 225,000 rigs are self-operated, indicating the extent to which its platform currently supports direct mining activity.
Bitdeer said its self-mining operations scaled to about 70 EH/s by the end of March. That marked a 504 percent yearly increase and put the company ahead of other major public miners by compute power.
The company had already pushed toward that level late last year. At that time, it reported 71 EH/s in total hashrate under management, including 55.2 EH/s in self-mining capacity.
Rival miners still posted strong March numbers
Bitdeer’s latest figure came in above MARA’s published hashrate of 66.4 EH/s on its website. It also moved well ahead of CleanSpark, which reported an operational hashrate of about 50 EH/s in its latest update.
CleanSpark said it mined 658 Bitcoin in March and reached 1,799 BTC year to date. The company also said its 224,473 machines delivered a peak fleet efficiency of 16.07 J/Th.
CleanSpark supplemented that its average monthly hashrate increased 11 percent in the quarter. It manages over 1.8 gigawatts of power, land and data center capacity in the United States, the miner said.
Canaan also announced expansion in March although at a lesser magnitude. The company claimed to have minted 89 BTC in the month and that it had 1,808 BTC and 3,952 ETH in possession at the end of the month of March.
Canaan reported a hashrate deployed of 10.97 EH/s, without including a separate 4.4 EH/s in a joint venture acquired in Cipher Mining. It also claimed an installed power capacity of 266.3 MW and there was another 120 MW that was connected to its West Texas locations.
Hashrate race continues as network faces pressure
Bitdeer’s update arrived during a weaker period for the broader Bitcoin network. The Block’s data showed the global network hashrate at about 855 EH/s, slightly below levels seen at the start of the year.
The report also noted that Bitcoin’s global hashrate posted its largest intra-quarter decline in about five years during the first quarter of 2026. Lower prices and tougher competition shaped that backdrop even as miners kept expanding.
Even so, large miners continued to build capacity and add machines. Bitdeer’s rise to 70 EH/s showed that some operators still see room to grow, even when network conditions remain difficult.
The company also kept working toward a larger energy base. Bitdeer said it is scaling toward 3.0 gigawatts of global energy capacity, including projects still in the pipeline.
That expansion matters because power remains the core input for mining growth. More energy capacity gives miners room to install more machines and hold a larger share of network compute over time.
AI and new hardware support Bitdeer’s wider plan
Bitdeer also used the March update to show progress in its AI business. The company said AI Cloud utilization rose to 94 percent, up from 64 percent a month earlier.
It added that AI Cloud annual run rate reached about $43 million, up 105 percent month over month. Chief Business Officer Matt Kong said, ”This momentum shows both the scale of the market opportunity and our ability to deliver high-performance AI infrastructure.”
The AI push fits a broader strategy shift that Bitdeer laid out last October. At that time, the company said it would move beyond crypto mining and take direct control of AI and high-performance computing infrastructure.
Bitdeer stated that it would run its own AI-centric data centers, rather than solely on partnerships or leasing agreements. It also claimed to begin to convert some of its current mining locations to accommodate AI workloads.
At the same time, the company continues to roll out new mining hardware. Bitdeer said it is in final assembly for the introduction of its SEALMINER A4 series into the self-mining fleet.
The company said the A4 machines report efficiencies of about 9.45 J/T. Last month, it also launched the SEALMINER DL1 Air series for the Scrypt algorithm used by Litecoin and Dogecoin.
Those updates show that Bitdeer is building across both mining and AI infrastructure. While Bitcoin mining remains its main business, the company is also preparing for revenue from data center and computing services.