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MARA Holdings runs specialized mining computers in data centers, and Bitcoin mining supplies most of its revenue. Its machines compete to validate blocks of transactions: the Bitcoin network supplies block rewards, while people submitting transactions pay fees, both in bitcoin. MARA retains most of its bitcoin as a treasury asset, but now sells some to fund operations rather than holding all production for the long term. It also lends some holdings to third parties for interest.
The business depends on bitcoin’s market price, reliable and competitively priced electricity, and MARA’s computing power relative to competing miners. If the network’s total computing power grows faster than MARA’s, its share of mining rewards can fall.
MARA is also developing computing services for running AI models, though these activities have not yet generated material revenue. It plans to develop AI and high-performance computing infrastructure with Starwood at selected sites. Starwood would secure large cloud-company tenants and manage development and operations; projects depend on signed tenant leases, power availability and permits. Bitcoin mining is expected to continue at some of those sites.
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MARA still depends chiefly on Bitcoin prices and mining profitability; watch Starwood for execution of its planned AI and high-performance computing expansion.
CleanSpark and MARA compete for Bitcoin rewards with large mining fleets, then turn mined bitcoin into funding for operations and expansion. Watch how much of CleanSpark’s new production it monetizes: that shows the balance between retaining bitcoin exposure and paying for mining growth.
Riot Platforms and MARA both earn Bitcoin rewards with large mining fleets backed by substantial owned power infrastructure, leaving both exposed to bitcoin prices and electricity costs. Riot’s bitcoin output alongside its deployed computing power offers a comparison for how effectively MARA’s infrastructure turns power into mining rewards.
HIVE Digital Technologies Ltd. shares MARA’s exposure to Bitcoin mining while also developing AI computing facilities at sites with favorable power access. HIVE sells mining computing power to pools and computing services to AI businesses and other data-center users; progress upgrading mining facilities for those customers is a comparison for MARA’s own expansion.
American Bitcoin and MARA compete for Bitcoin rewards with their own mining fleets, but American Bitcoin leaves facility management to Hut 8 rather than owning the supporting infrastructure. Its operational computing power and fleet efficiency show how this lighter-infrastructure model compares with MARA’s greater site ownership.
Bitdeer and MARA both mine Bitcoin for their own accounts, while Bitdeer also sells its proprietary SEALMINER machines to mining customers. Watch the energy efficiency of new SEALMINER models: improvements raise the competitive efficiency standard MARA’s fleet faces.
Cipher Digital shares MARA’s Bitcoin mining exposure and its push to develop power-rich sites for AI and high-performance computing customers. Cipher’s development of 600 MW of HPC facilities across two sites for hyperscaler tenants provides a concrete comparison for MARA’s planned move from mining rewards toward tenant revenue.
Core Scientific offers a comparison for MARA’s effort to adapt mining infrastructure for AI: both operate data centers built for power-intensive computing. Watch Core Scientific’s progress repurposing electrical and cooling systems to house customers’ AI equipment, rather than only mining digital assets for its own account.
Strategy and MARA both expose shareholders to Bitcoin prices and the financing conditions for holding it, but Strategy finances purchases while MARA mines and holds bitcoin. Strategy sells analytics software to enterprise customers; its interest expense on debt used mainly to buy bitcoin is the more relevant line to watch for this tie.
Keel Infrastructure Corp. shares MARA’s combination of Bitcoin mining exposure and plans to earn rent from power-rich AI and HPC sites. Keel had no HPC revenue as of December 31, 2025, and expects initial data-center revenue in 2027; watch whether planned long-term leases to cloud providers, AI companies and enterprises begin producing income.
Hut 8’s management of Bitcoin mining facilities and development of powered sites parallels MARA’s mining and power-led data-center expansion. Hut 8 earns revenue through infrastructure management services and power-generation operations; watch how it turns secured electricity access into commercial uses for its sites.
IREN already sells AI training and inference computing to customers, overlapping with MARA’s emerging inference services and planned HPC facilities. Its owned data centers, computing equipment and software provide a comparison for MARA’s rollout; watch operating AI cloud capacity, not just power secured for future development.
TeraWulf’s contracted HPC campuses show what MARA’s planned AI and HPC sites could be measured against commercially. TeraWulf leases data-center capacity to hyperscale and enterprise customers, typically for 10–25 years; watch delivery of contracted capacity to see how signed leases become operating infrastructure.
Ionic Digital’s move from mining to leasing its largest powered property for AI infrastructure offers a concrete comparison for MARA’s planned transition. Nscale contracted to lease Ward County for 126 months, with monthly fixed payments scheduled to begin in August 2026; watch those payments as evidence of powered land becoming rental income.
Applied Digital competes for the long-term computing tenants MARA and Starwood plan to serve, building and leasing purpose-built AI and HPC data centers. Watch its progress securing power and grid connections for hyperscaler capacity: those are constraints on the same development business MARA is entering.
Canaan’s mining-machine demand reflects the profitability and fleet-investment decisions that also drive MARA, rather than a disclosed supply relationship between them. Canaan sells industrial AvalonMiner machines to mining customers; watch that equipment business for signs of miners’ willingness to invest in computing power.
Cipher Digital Inc. earningsCIFR
Cipher Digital’s report will show how far its high-performance computing facilities for hyperscalers have moved toward operation, giving MARA Holdings a comparison for its own shift from mining to serving tenants.
Look at progress on Cipher Digital’s 600 MW of high-performance computing facilities and whether any capacity is operating for hyperscaler tenants. Capacity in operation would show that powered sites can become a business serving customers; if the facilities remain in development, power and plans have not yet become tenant income. For MARA, this is evidence about whether the path from mining rewards to customer revenue is advancing, not proof its projects will have the same timing or economics.
MARA Holdings, Inc. earningsThis company
MARA Holdings earns most of its revenue from Bitcoin mining, and this report will show whether its computing power is translating into Bitcoin production and mining revenue.
Read Bitcoin production alongside energized hashrate, then consider the average price of Bitcoin mined. If production rises relative to energized capacity, MARA is securing more output from its fleet and holding its share of block rewards more effectively; if it falls, network competition or operating limits are squeezing the mining business. Even steady production can bring in less mining revenue if the average price falls, so these figures help separate mining performance from Bitcoin’s price.
