NEW YORK, Jan. 31, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Bit Digital, Inc. (Nasdaq: BTBT) ("Bit Digital" or the "Company"), a sustainable platform for digital assets and artificial intelligence ("AI") infrastructure headquartered in New York City, is pleased to announce that it has finalized an agreement for 6 megawatts of incremental hosting capacity to power its miners. The hosting facility, located in Massena, New York, is operated by a subsidiary of Coinmint LLC ("Coinmint").
This new agreement brings the Company's total contracted hosting capacity with Coinmint to approximately 46 MW. The agreement features an initial one-year term with automatic three-month renewals. Bit Digital will fill the capacity with approximately 2,340 S19k Pro mining units that were recently purchased for approximately $3.4 million, or approximately $13 /TH. These mining units represent approximately 260PH/s with an average efficiency of 23 J/TH. The Company expects the miners to be delivered to the facility and hashing by the end of February 2024 .
Sam Tabar, Bit Digital's CEO, commented: "We are pleased to further expand our relationship with a top-tier hosting partner in Coinmint. This agreement represents an important step towards achieving our goal of doubling our active mining fleet to approximately 6.0EH/s during 2024. We plan to achieve this growth target at a measured pace that enables opportunistic procurement decisions with the goal of enhancing both our scale and fleet efficiency."
About Bit Digital
Bit Digital, Inc. is a sustainable platform for digital assets and artificial intelligence ("AI") infrastructure headquartered in New York City . Our bitcoin mining operations are located in the US, Canada, and Iceland . The Company has also established a business line, Bit Digital AI, that offers infrastructure services for artificial intelligence applications. For additional information, please contact [email protected] or visit our website at www.bit-digital.com.
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