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MARA Holdings has begun to shed its pure-play bitcoin miner identity, unloading $1.5 billion worth of bitcoin in the first quarter as it refocuses on power infrastructure and artificial intelligence data centers.<\/p>\n

The shift comes as the company reports<\/a> weaker financial results and leans on its bitcoin treasury to retire debt and fund a large energy acquisition in Ohio.<\/p>\n

The company reported first-quarter revenue of $174.6 million, an 18% drop from a year earlier, and a net loss of about $1.3 billion. Management tied that result to a roughly $1 billion negative change in the fair value of its digital assets after a double-digit slide in the bitcoin price over the period.<\/p>\n

MARA produced 2,247 bitcoin in the quarter and lifted energized hashrate 33% year over year to 72.2 exahash per second, but those operational gains did not offset the mark-to-market hit on its holdings.<\/p>\n

To strengthen its balance sheet, MARA sold about $1.5 billion worth of bitcoin during the quarter, including a $1.1 billion block near the end of the period used to repurchase convertible notes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The miner sold 20,880 bitcoin and ended the quarter with 35,303 coins, down from 38,689 earlier in the year. That sale pushed the company from the second- to the fourth-largest publicly traded holder of bitcoin, according to Bitcoin Treasuries data.<\/p>\n

Management framed the move as a use of bitcoin as \u201cammunition\u201d on the balance sheet rather than an untouchable reserve.<\/p>\n

MARA is pivoting from bitcoin to AI\u00a0<\/h2>\n

Even as it continues to mine, MARA is signaling a strategic pivot away<\/a> from aggressive expansion of dedicated mining capacity. In its earnings statement the company said it does not expect to make large purchases of new ASIC miners, a sharp contrast with the playbook miners used during the last cycle to chase hashrate growth.<\/p>\n

Instead, MARA is steering capital toward energy and data infrastructure that can support both bitcoin mining and high-performance computing workloads.<\/p>\n

A centerpiece of that plan is the pending $1.5 billion acquisition<\/a> of the Long Ridge Energy & Power campus in Hannibal, Ohio, which includes a 505-megawatt gas-fired power plant and extensive land for expansion.<\/p>\n

MARA says the site could support more than 600 megawatts of AI and critical IT loads through staged buildouts, with its existing mining footprint integrated into the campus.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The company has also partnered with Starwood Capital to convert selected mining sites into AI and high-performance computing data centers, broadening its revenue base beyond block rewards.<\/p>\n

Around 90% of MARA\u2019s non-hosted mining capacity could eventually support AI and IT infrastructure, according to company disclosures.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The strategy positions MARA at the center of two energy-hungry sectors, bitcoin mining and AI compute, while giving it the option to tilt power toward whichever market offers stronger returns at a given time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This post MARA Dumps $1.5B in Bitcoin as Miner Trades Treasury Hoard for AI Power Bet<\/a> first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine<\/a> and is written by Micah Zimmerman<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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