Updates
** Bitcoin miner and data center developer Cipher Mining's CIFR.O shares pare premarket gains; still up 5.3% at $14.89
** CIFR announces offering of $800 million of convertible bonds due 2031 to finance data center construction among other purposes
** Stock had jumped more than 20% premarket after CIFR announced 10-year data center deal with AI cloud platform Fluidstack, representing nearly $3 billion in contracted revenue
** Under the deal, CIFR will deliver 168 megawatt of power by September 2026
** Alphabet's Google GOOGL.O will backstop $1.4 billion of Fluidstack's lease obligations and receive warrants to buy roughly 24 million CIFR shares, or a 5.4% stake
** 11 of 13 brokerages rate the stock "buy" or higher and 2 "hold"; median PT $7.50 - data compiled by LSEG
** As of last close, CIFR stock up ~205% YTD
(Reporting by Arasu Kannagi Basil in Bengaluru)
((ArasuKannagi.Basil@thomsonreuters.com;))