The second-largest publically traded firm bitcoin holder, MARA Holdings (MARA), has announced the completion of the acquisition of a upwind workplace successful Texas, adding 114 megawatts of nameplate upwind capableness and 240 megawatts of interconnection capableness to its operations.
The Florida-based institution plans to usage the upwind workplace to powerfulness bitcoin mining operations utilizing last-generation ASIC mining hardware “that would person different been written disconnected oregon sold into the secondary market.”
MARA noted that repurposing the machines and leveraging renewable vigor volition trim bitcoin mining products costs portion utilizing upwind powerfulness that mightiness person different gone unused.
“With this added renewable vigor asset, MARA present owns and operates 136 megawatts of generating capacity,” CEO Fred Thiel said successful an announcement.
MARA is the second-largest publically traded firm bitcoin holder, with 45,659 BTC connected its equilibrium sheet.