US Marathon Digital Holdings to jointly build $406 million crypto mining facility in UAE
In an SEC Filing dated January 27 th 2022, USA based Marathon digital Holdings, a digital asset mining entity, announced that it had entered into a shareholder’s agreement with FSI ( FS Innovation), the BTC mining subsidiary of UAE ADQ a sovereign fund, to form an Abu Dhabi, ( ADGM (Abu Dhabi Global Markets) based company. As per the filing, the joint UAE ADGM based company will establish and operate one or more mining facilities for digital assets. The business entity will be in the field of digital asset/crypto mining. The initial phase will consist of two digital asset mining sites comprising 250 MW (megawatts) in Abu Dhabi UAE. Marathon Holdings will own 20% of the joint company in UAE only. The cost of the project will be $406 million. This new comes after UAE based Phoenix Technology which embarked on establishing a $2 billion crypto-mining farm in the UAE, announced in November 2022, that the biggest crypto mining project in the region will be completed in th