MARA Holdings, Inc. Q4 FY2025 Earnings Call

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Strategic Highlights

  • MARA announced a major strategic shift via a new joint venture with Starwood Digital Ventures to accelerate entry into AI and high‑performance compute (HPC) infrastructure. This represents a significant evolution from a pure-play Bitcoin miner to a broader digital infrastructure and energy platform.
  • The JV is expected to deliver more than 1 GW of near-term IT capacity with a pathway to 2.5 GW. MARA may retain up to 50% ownership, contributing power-rich sites while Starwood provides development, tenant relationships, financing, and operational capabilities.
  • Starwood’s experience with Tier 1 hyperscalers is expected to reduce risk and accelerate tenant onboarding—addressing credibility challenges that new developers face with enterprise and hyperscale customers.
  • Demand signals are described as already strong, and MARA reports that permitting and leasing discussions are well underway, even prior to the public announcement.
  • MARA also closed its 64% acquisition of Exaion, a high‑security, enterprise‑grade AI/HPC and sovereign cloud platform spun out of EDF. Exaion will support MARA’s global private cloud, edge inference, and sovereign compute strategy, especially in Europe and the Middle East.
  • MARA expanded its Nebraska campus by 42 MW and doubled its NGON gas-to-power operations to 50 MW, providing additional low‑cost mining and optionality for future HPC workloads.

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Operator: Greetings, and welcome to MARA 4Q '25 Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Robert Samuels, VP Investor Relations. Thank you, Robert. You may begin. Robert Samuels: Thank you, operator. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to MARA's Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2025 Earnings Call. Thank you joining us today. With me on today's call are our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Fred Thiel; and our Chief Financial Officer, Salman Khan. Today's call includes forward-looking statements, including those about our growth plans, liquidity and financial performance. These involve risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially. We disclaim any obligation to update these statements, except as required by law. For more details, see the Risk Factors section of our latest 10-K and other SEC filings. We'll also reference non-GAAP financial measures like adjusted EBITDA and return on capital employed, which we believe are important indicators of MARA's operating performance because they exclude certain items that we do not believe directly reflect our core operations. Please see our earnings release for reconciliations to the most comparable GAAP measures. We hope you've had the chance to read our shareholder letter and look forward to your feedback. We'll begin with some brief prepared remarks from Fred and Salman. After their comments, we will open the call to Q

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