Top-Line Growth
Bitdeer Technologies Group released unaudited financial results for the second quarter (Q2) of 2026, Aug. 10, demonstrating strong top-line revenue growth accompanied by persistent cost pressures. While the company’s cost of revenue grew faster than total revenue year-over-year, the pace of cost growth slowed significantly compared with the first quarter, helping narrow Bitdeer’s gross loss.
Total revenue for the three months ended June 30 totalled $228.8 million, up from $155.6 million in the second quarter of 2025 and up 21.1% from $188.9 million in Q1 of 2026. The cost of revenue climbed to $237.3 million from $143.6 million in the second quarter of 2025, but increased only 4.1% sequentially from $228 million in the first quarter of 2026.
Bitdeer’s gross loss narrowed to $8.5 million, compared with a gross profit of $12 million in the second quarter of 2025. Still, the second-quarter gross loss was a marked improvement from the $39 million gross loss reported in the first quarter of 2026. The net loss reached $92.3 million, down from $159.5 million in the first quarter of 2026.
The primary narrative of Bitdeer’s Q2 financial performance centers on cost expansion. Year-over-year, cost of revenue grew 65.3%, outpacing the 47% increase in total revenue.
This discrepancy was driven principally by higher electricity expenses and rising depreciation costs as the company rapidly deployed new mining rigs and brought additional data center capacity online. Electricity expenses for self-mining rose to $84.7 million in the second quarter of 2026, while depreciation and share-based compensation expenses reached $79.8 million. Higher headcount, artificial intelligence (AI) cloud service fees, and co-mining hosting fees also contributed to the rising expense baseline.
The growth in total revenue was spearheaded by Bitdeer’s self-mining business, which generated $168.4 million in the second quarter of 2026 — up from $59.3 million in the second quarter of 2025 — driven by a 389.4% surge in average self-mining hash rate to 69.5 exahashes per second. AI cloud revenue also expanded rapidly to $14 million, up from $1.3 million in the prior-year period.
Bitdeer Chief Financial Officer Michael G. Potter noted that the quarter reflected steady execution across both AI infrastructure and Bitcoin mining fleets, highlighting the recent 16-year, $4.7 billion AI and high-performance computing data center lease with Volta at its Tydal, Norway, facility as a key milestone for converting power capacity into long-term contracted revenue.
Before securing the Norway mega-lease, Bitdeer announced in July that construction had begun on a $36 million electronics manufacturing facility in Sparks, Nevada — its first U.S. assembly site for SEALMINER rigs. The facility will complement the company’s existing U.S. data centers and its San Jose, California, innovation hub.
As of June 30, 2026, Bitdeer held $496.3 million in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash, providing liquidity as it continues expanding its SEALMINER deployment and AI data center pipeline.
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