Marathon, a Major Bitcoin Mining Firm, to Enhance AI Operations with New Natural Gas Supply Agreement

MARA Holdings, a leading U.S. cryptocurrency mining firm, announced on the 4th that it has signed an agreement with energy infrastructure and logistics company MPLX to supply natural gas to a planned integrated power generation and state-of-the-art data center facility in West Texas. Fred Thiel, Chairman and CEO of Marathon, stated that the collaboration with MPLX allows the company to utilize low-cost natural gas resources to build a high-performance and efficient data center foundation. He continued, 'Our integrated business approach enables optimization of power usage, monetization of excess power generation, and ...'