On December 3, The Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency miner MARA officially announced the acquisition of a wind energy facility in Hansford County, Texas.
MARA’s new initiative will repurpose older mining hardware—specifically, application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs)—at the Texas facility.
These machines would typically be discarded or resold, but instead, they'll help lower the company’s Bitcoin
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The wind farm has an operational capacity of 114 megawatts of wind power, with another 240 megawatts available for future connections to the grid.
The excess capacity, which is more than double the current installed power, could have gone to waste without MARA stepping in. Instead of linking the wind farm to the grid, MARA plans to use the energy directly to power their data centers.
Fred Thiel, MARA’s Chairman and CEO, explained:
We’re leveraging renewable resources that would have otherwise been curtailed, reducing our Bitcoin production costs through vertical integration, and demonstrating MARA’s commitment to environmental stewardship.
This acquisition marks the start of the company's new Advanced ASIC Retirement Initiative, which aims to breathe new life into old mining hardware while focusing on sustainability.
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