Leading this transition is President and CFO Gary Vecchiarelli, who inherited the finance organization in 2021 as CleanSpark continued scaling its bitcoin mining business. The company’s earlier transition from microgrid software development and energy management to bitcoin mining created enormous upside, but also brought shareholder confusion and drew scrutiny from short sellers. Though bitcoin mining is still a big part of CleanSpark's business, the company is now expanding into AI data center infrastructure to monetize its growing power portfolio. That was an important distinction because when the company entered bitcoin mining, there were already larger players with more experience. What mattered was that we watched the market reward companies that were monetizing megawatts through data centers instead of bitcoin mining.