NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) reported record quarterly results on August 26, 2026, posting revenue of $96.2 billion for its second quarter of fiscal 2027, the period ended July 26, 2026. That was up 18% from the prior quarter and up 106% from a year earlier, according to the company’s earnings release. Data-center revenue, the segment that houses NVIDIA’s AI accelerators, reached $89.0 billion, up 117% year-on-year.
NVIDIA’s latest earnings show how heavily the chipmaker’s business is now tied to AI rather than cryptocurrency. For the crypto industry, however, the results have a direct connection: Bitcoin miners are increasingly repurposing the power, land and data-center infrastructure built for mining to host AI workloads powered by NVIDIA GPUs.
The Quarter, By The Numbers
NVIDIA reported GAAP earnings of $2.46 per diluted share and non-GAAP earnings of $2.22, with GAAP and non-GAAP gross margins both at 75.0%. GAAP net income was $59.7 billion. The company said it returned approximately $26.0 billion to shareholders in the quarter through buybacks and dividends, and it will pay a $0.25 quarterly dividend on October 1, 2026.
For the current quarter (Q3 fiscal 2027), NVIDIA guided to revenue of $108.0 billion, plus or minus 2%, and specified that this outlook assumes no data-center compute revenue from China, a reference to the U.S. export restrictions that have shaped the company’s addressable market. Chief executive Jensen Huang framed the moment around AI economics, saying in the release that “compute is revenue.”
These figures and the guidance are NVIDIA’s own; The Crypto Times is not forecasting the company’s results or its share price.
The Crypto Connection: Bitcoin Miners Expand Into AI Infrastructure
The most direct crypto link to NVIDIA’s AI boom is the transformation of the Bitcoin mining industry. Public miners spent years building exactly what AI now needs most — grid-connected power, land, cooling, and speed-to-market — and many are repurposing that infrastructure to host NVIDIA GPUs for AI and high-performance computing (HPC) tenants.
Several of these deals involve NVIDIA GPUs or NVIDIA-related infrastructure. IREN (formerly Iris Energy) signed a five-year, roughly $3.4 billion AI cloud contract with NVIDIA and separately partnered with the chipmaker to pursue up to 5 gigawatts of AI infrastructure, on top of a reported $9.7 billion arrangement with Microsoft involving tens of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs. Core Scientific has contracted hundreds of megawatts to host CoreWeave’s NVIDIA GPUs, modifying former mining sites for HPC and pointing to more than $10 billion in potential cumulative revenue. TeraWulf and Hut 8 have signed multibillion-dollar HPC agreements backed by large technology and financial counterparties.
Analysts at Bernstein have noted that every major U.S.-listed Bitcoin miner has moved toward AI data centers in some form, and industry projections have suggested that AI and HPC could account for a substantial share of listed miners’ revenue by the end of 2026. Those are analyst projections, not settled facts, and execution risk remains because the buildouts are capital-intensive and can concentrate customer exposure among a small number of large tenants.
The broader shift is clear: former Bitcoin miners are increasingly reorganizing their businesses around power, data-center capacity and AI infrastructure, with NVIDIA GPUs forming part of the hardware base for those workloads.
A Market Bellwether That Moves Crypto Sentiment Too
NVIDIA has become one of the most closely watched indicators of sentiment around the AI trade, and its earnings now sit among the market events, alongside Federal Reserve signals and inflation data, that can influence broad risk appetite. Because crypto often trades with that risk appetite, NVIDIA results can coincide with moves in Bitcoin and other majors.
The relationship is a correlation in sentiment, not a mechanical link, and The Crypto Times is not predicting how either market will react.
NVIDIA’s Next Reported Move: Buying Hugging Face
Reports about a potential NVIDIA acquisition of Hugging Face remain inconsistent. Business Insider, citing a person familiar with the matter, reported that NVIDIA had held preliminary discussions over a deal valuing the startup at more than $13 billion. Bloomberg separately reported that NVIDIA had agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion.
Neither company had publicly confirmed a transaction as of publication. The reports also appear to trace back to separate accounts of the same broader acquisition discussions, so they should not be treated as independent confirmation.
The Crypto Times has reached out to NVIDIA for comment on the reported transaction as of 05:16 AM UTC. Readers should therefore treat the acquisition as reported and unconfirmed rather than completed.
Hugging Face, founded in 2016, is a major hub where developers share, discover and deploy open-source AI models and datasets. NVIDIA was already an investor, having joined a $235 million round in 2023 that valued the company at $4.5 billion.
The reported discussions would fit NVIDIA’s broader expansion beyond chips and into AI software and infrastructure.
Why A Hugging Face Deal Matters for Crypto
The direct crypto link here is not that Hugging Face is a crypto company, it is not. Hugging Face is relevant to the crypto sector because decentralized-AI projects often position decentralized computing, training and inference networks as alternatives or complements to centralized AI infrastructure.
NVIDIA already has a major position in the hardware used to train and run AI models. An acquisition of Hugging Face could give the company a stronger position across additional parts of the AI software and developer ecosystem, although the implications for decentralized AI remain a matter of debate.
Supporters of decentralized AI argue that greater concentration among large technology companies could strengthen the case for open and distributed alternatives. Others may view NVIDIA’s continued support of open AI infrastructure as compatible with Hugging Face’s existing role.
Full Circle: From Ethereum Mining to The SEC
NVIDIA’s ties to crypto are also historical. During the 2017 boom, miners bulk-bought NVIDIA’s gaming GPUs to mine Ethereum, and in May 2022 the company paid a $5.5 million penalty to settle SEC charges that it had failed to disclose that crypto mining was, in the regulator’s words, a “significant element” of its gaming revenue growth during fiscal 2018; NVIDIA settled without admitting or denying the findings.
The issue also continued into shareholder litigation, which remains ongoing. Ethereum’s move to proof-of-stake in 2022 ended GPU mining for that network and collapsed a large source of GPU demand, which is part of why NVIDIA’s crypto exposure today is about powering the industry’s data centers, not selling chips to mine coins.
Bottom Line
NVIDIA’s quarter is, on its face, an AI story with no crypto in it. For the crypto industry, however, the significance lies in how the same AI demand behind NVIDIA’s $89 billion data-center business is reshaping the Bitcoin-mining sector. Former miners are increasingly using their power and data-center infrastructure for AI and HPC workloads, creating a new connection between the two industries.
The reported Hugging Face acquisition, if confirmed, would extend NVIDIA’s reach further into AI software and the open-model ecosystem. Its implications for decentralized AI would depend on the structure and terms of any eventual transaction.
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