Arthur Hayes Bets AI Data Center Overbuild Will Crash and Lift Crypto

Former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes says humanity is wasting multi-trillion dollars on AI data centers that will eventually be overbuilt, causing a crash and a bailout that he expects will benefit bitcoin and other crypto.

He expects infrastructure providers to seek payment for committed compute around late 2027 or 2028. Hayes is backing Flop, an AI-agent payments project expected to launch in the first quarter of 2027 that aims to create a spot market for computing power.