CleanSpark acquires mining facility in Georgia for $33 million

Crypto mining agency CleanSpark announced an settlement on Friday to amass Mawson’s Bitcoin mining facility in Sandersville, Georgia for $33 million. The deal is anticipated to extend CleanSpark’s hash charge by 1.4 exahashes per second (EH/s) within the subsequent few months, and to 7.0 EH/s by the tip of subsequent yr.

As a part of the settlement, 6,468 last-generation mining ASICs will likely be bought for $9.5 million, or $17 per terahash. “These machines, already working on the acquired web site, will add over 558 petahashes per second (PH/s) of computing energy instantly upon closing,” the corporate explains.

For the ability and miners, CleanSpark pays as much as $42.5 million, together with as much as $11 million in CleanSpark shares and $4.5 million in earn-out commitments. The positioning in Georgia can assist 24,108 latest-generation miners and the corporate plans to broaden to assist 70,000 miners producing over 7.0 EH/s in 2023.

G’day mate. $CLSK has agreed to amass Australian-based @Mawsoninc‘s #bitcoin mining facility in Sandersville, GA. This marks our 4th web site within the state & it’s anticipated to assist 7.0 EH/s of our #hashrate.

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— CleanSpark Inc. (@CleanSpark_Inc) September 9, 2022

CleanSpark has accelerated its consolidation in a bear market with excessive vitality prices. On Thursday, the corporate introduced a purchase order settlement with Cryptech Options for 10,000 Bitmain Antminer S19j Professional models for a complete value of $28 million.

In July, CleanSpark disclosed the purchase of over 1,000 Bitcoin miners from Whatsminer M30S at a “considerably discounted value.” In June, the mining firm additionally purchased 1,800 Antminer S19 XP rigs.

Throughout the bull market, the corporate centered on constructing infrastructure earlier than ordering tools months prematurely. “This technique positioned us to make purchases of landed rigs at considerably decrease costs, thus decreasing the time between deploying capital and hashing, accelerating our return on funding,” mentioned Zach Bradford, CEO of CleanSpark.