{"id":13705,"date":"2025-02-18T15:02:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T15:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=13705"},"modified":"2025-02-18T15:02:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T15:02:43","slug":"mara-holdings-closes-deal-for-texas-wind-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=13705","title":{"rendered":"MARA Holdings Closes Deal for Texas Wind Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The second-largest publicly traded corporate bitcoin holder, MARA Holdings (MARA), has announced the completion of the acquisition of a wind farm in Texas, adding 114 megawatts of nameplate wind capacity and 240 megawatts of interconnection capacity to its operations.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida-based company plans to use the wind farm to power bitcoin mining operations using last-generation ASIC mining hardware \u201cthat would have otherwise been written off or sold into the secondary market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MARA noted that repurposing the machines and leveraging renewable energy will reduce bitcoin mining products costs while using wind power that might have otherwise gone unused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this added renewable energy asset, MARA now owns and operates 136 megawatts of generating capacity,\u201d CEO Fred Thiel said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/ir.mara.com\/news-events\/press-releases\/detail\/1389\/mara-holdings-announces-closing-of-texas-wind-farm-acquisition\" target=\"_blank\">announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>MARA is the second-largest publicly traded corporate bitcoin holder, with 45,659 BTC on its balance sheet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second-largest publicly traded corporate bitcoin holder, MARA Holdings (MARA), has announced the completion of the acquisition of a wind farm in Texas, adding 114 megawatts of nameplate wind capacity and 240 megawatts of interconnection capacity to its operations. The Florida-based company plans to use the wind farm to power bitcoin mining operations using last-generation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-13705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}