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6/10

SiteFlip Distressed Compute Marketplace

A deal-discovery platform that surfaces bankrupt or distressed crypto-mining sites, power contracts and GPUs being auctioned so AI infrastructure buyers can find cheap capacity before it goes to a stalking-horse bidder.

Target user

AI/HPC startups and infra investors hunting for cheap power and GPU capacity

Features
  • Tracks Section 363 stalking-horse bids (e.g., Poolin/Thor $52M) and competing offers in one feed
  • Filters sites by MW capacity, grid interconnect status and existing electrical equipment
  • Estimated repurposing cost to convert mining sites to AI inference/colocation
  • Alerts when new filings match your capacity and location criteria
Why now

Poolin's auction explicitly marketed to AI/HPC buyers and hyperscalers, and peers like Greenidge are rebranding around AI compute; distressed mining sites are a real, time-sensitive deal flow.

Signals · overall 6/10
Demand
6/10

Real, time-sensitive deal flow confirmed: Poolin $52M stalking-horse, NFN8 Chapter 11, Core Scientific/CoreWeave multi-billion deal, IREN $3.4B Nvidia contract, Hut 8 $9.8B AI lease, MARA buying a power plant — but flow is concentrated among a handful of public miners and hyperscalers, not a broad SMB market.Poolin Files Chapter 11, Lines Up $52M Sale of Texas Bitcoin Mining AssetsHut 8, IREN land billions in new contracts, lifting AI compute stocksCryptominer NFN8 files for bankruptcy, following data center fire and bitcoin price crash

Whitespace
7/10

No dedicated distressed-compute marketplace exists; closest competitors are Acquire.fi (broad Web3 M&A), Dividend (generic distressed assets), and CBRE/Colliers (traditional brokers) — leaving a clear niche if buyers/sellers can be pulled off bankruptcy-court and banker channels.Web3 M&A Marketplace | Buy a Crypto Business | Acquire.FiDividend Distressed Assets MarketplaceData Center Capital Markets - CBRE

Monetization
5/10

Success-fee model is proven (Rejigg charges buyer subs + success fees) and deal sizes are huge (multi-billion IREN/Nvidia, CoreWeave/Core Scientific), so even low take-rates produce meaningful revenue — but deals currently route through bankruptcy courts with stalking-horse bidders and elite advisors (Moelis, Houlihan), making marketplace capture uncertain.Rejigg | Buy and Sell BusinessesHow MARA, Core Scientific, and IREN Are Shifting from Bitcoin Mining to AI Compute

Longevity
5/10

Countercyclical to bitcoin halvings and power prices, so supply should recur — but the strongest miners (CORZ, IREN, Hut 8, MARA, Hive, WULF, APLD) are pivoting to AI rather than going bankrupt, shrinking the distressed-supply pool over time; tail risk if crypto rebounds.Miners pivot to AI: IREN, RIOT, WULF, CIFR, CLSK popBitcoin Miners Are Pivoting To AI Post-Halving

Feasibility
7/10

A listing/search/alert marketplace is trivially buildable with standard web tooling, and bankruptcy filings are public via PACER plus SEC 8-Ks — but the hard part is sourcing real off-market listings and convincing counsel-laden bidders to use a startup platform.Real Estate for Sale - SOLminer Farm

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