Marathon Digital has formed a joint venture with Zero Two - backed by Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund - to establish the first large-scale immersion Bitcoin mining operations in the Middle East..
- "The newly formed Abu Dhabi Global Markets JV Entity (the “ADGM Entity”) will initially develop and operate two digital asset mining sites with a combined capacity of 250 megawatts," press release states.
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- "The larger 200MW site will be located in the sustainability hub of Abu Dhabi, Masdar City, and the 50MW site will be located in the port zone of Mina Zayed."
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"To power the sites, Marathon and Zero Two intend to leverage excess energy in Abu Dhabi, increasing the base load and sustainability of the Abu Dhabi grid."
- "The equity ownership in the ADGM Entity will be 80% for Zero Two and 20% for Marathon. During the 2023 development period, capital contributions, in proportion to the equity interest in the ADGM entity, are anticipated to total approximately $406 million in aggregate."
- "Marathon and Zero Two developed a custom-built immersion solution to cool the ASIC miners and implemented proprietary software to optimize their performance."
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The mining equipment and infrastructure required to build each site has already been ordered, and construction of both digital asset mining sites is currently underway.
"Once operational, these sites are expected to be among the most technologically advanced and energy-efficient digital asset mining operations globally. Based on the current construction schedules, both sites are expected to come online before the end of 2023, with a combined hash rate of approximately 7 EH/s."