Are Bitcoin miners turning into generic AI datacenters, and does it matter for the network?

Lately I keep seeing more public Bitcoin miners pitch themselves as “AI infrastructure” companies instead of pure mining businesses...

On the surface it makes sense. Large scale Bitcoin mining and large scale AI workloads both need the same boring but hard stuff:
cheap power, grid capacity, industrial sites, serious cooling, and teams who can run power hungry hardware 24/7.

What I am not sure about is what this means for Bitcoin over the next few halving cycles.

If a growing share of miner revenue and new capex depends on AI and cloud clients instead of block rewards and fees, a few questions come up:

• Does this make miners more resilient, because they can survive bear markets by selling infra and power to other workloads?
• Or do their incentives slowly shift towards those non‑Bitcoin customers and regulators, even if the company branding still says “Bitcoin miner”?
• In an extreme case, who has more leverage over a miner that runs mixed workloads: the Bitcoin network or the big clients paying most of the electricity bill?

I am not trying to argue this is good or bad yet. I just find it interesting that the same infrastructure can now serve both Bitcoin and other high density compute, and that this might change how new power projects and datacenters get financed..

Curious how people here see it:
Is this mainly a healthy diversification for miners, or the start of a slow drift away from being truly “Bitcoin first”?